Cristina,
I have successfully created exhibition xref object statuses within our local thesaurus to organize thematic content within an exhibition record. It’s unorthodox,
but works, and allows terms to be used for a specific purpose apart from the rest of your own thesaurus terms in regular, general use. And it allows an object to be in more than one section, if that’s ever necessary for online use.
Here’s a screen-shot from the thesaurus:
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Subject: Exhibition Objects Outline Numbering
Hi All -
We have an exhibition project coming up where the curators have asked to have object lists that are sorted according to an outline format versus straight exhibition numbers
(so an outline number such as 2.2.1 or 1.3.1, corresponding to a sections and sub-sections). They do not know how deep this hierarchy will go, but probably at least four levels if not more.
Has anyone used this sort of numbering scheme for objects in the exhibition module? What fields did you use? We previously were using the sequence field for exhibition
sequence numbers, but that field appears to take integers only and I am not sure how it would sort a number of the type above in a report. I would rather not use the section and sub-section fields as it looks like the hierarchy will go deeper than those allow,
and we may need them further along in the exhibition process.
Ideas?
Cristina Lichauco
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Asian Art Museum
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