Hi Everyone,

 

Just a quick thank you to those of you who offered your suggestions regarding our associations dilemma.  All of your responses contained ideas we hadn’t considered, so all have been very valuable.  Thanks again, and have a great week!

 

 

 

David, I’ve done what you are contemplating—that is, making a parent-child relationship and defining it as a See Also because I want it to show in the Group Information field in the object record. Seems to work well enough, even though I’m a little sketchy on which record is the parent, and which is the child. Depending on how you link it seems to dictate how the relationship will display in the Group Information field. (see images below)

 

Christine

 

Christine Droll

Registrar, Database & Collections

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

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Hi Everyone,

 

We’re taking a look at how we number and associate photographs and their reserve prints, and I was asked to weigh-in on the numbering and association type.  To me, associating different instances of the same photograph would be a see-also association.  But, we like to see on the main data entry screen that there are associated objects without having to go to the hierarchy view or the related tab.  I’ve been kind of a stickler for coding the associations “correctly” as I understood them, but I wonder if it really hurts anything to code them as parent-child relationships?  Using the see-also association type has made me happy in the thought that it’s more “accurate,” but it hasn’t seemed to provide any real practical benefit, rather it just seems to make the information more difficult to find at-a-glance.  Perhaps there’s something I’m overlooking?

 

If any of you would mind taking a moment to share your opinion I’d be very appreciative.

 

Thanks,

David Thompson

TMS Administrator

 

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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