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Dear colleagues

The CIDOC Documentation Standards Working Group would like to understand how much time museum staff spend copying-and-pasting, or retyping, information into different systems whenever they lend or borrow objects. This is to help persuade software suppliers adopt a standard for the interchange of loan-related object data, which, if it is successful, could save thousands of hours a year across the sector in needless copying-and-pasting or retyping.

They have created a short (8-answer) survey to try to answer this question. If you work with loan-related documentation – please do fill it in. You  can access it here<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSck4Vv4BIcPU9jxtXtmj25rC0sREoaEPYY_oDv4NHvsv2224A%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Dsf_link&amp;data=05%7C01%7Ctmsusers%40si-listserv.si.edu%7C2a96fa8070cd47bed77408da6e3b77ee%7C989b5e2a14e44efe93b78cdd5fc5d11c%7C0%7C0%7C637943499805621812%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=tTNrPCqPmkRFEBwykeik3%2BoG5U30M1uxCF2%2F8hH025s%3D&amp;reserved=0>. If you don’t work with this data yourself – please pass it on to the teams who do!

The plan is to collate a first set of results in the week before the ICOM triennial, so that they can be presented at CIDOC sessions there; please could you or your colleagues submit answers by close of business on Friday 12 August? Results will also be disseminated via the CIDOC DSWG web page<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcidoc.mini.icom.museum%2Fworking-groups%2Fdocumentation-standards%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Ctmsusers%40si-listserv.si.edu%7C2a96fa8070cd47bed77408da6e3b77ee%7C989b5e2a14e44efe93b78cdd5fc5d11c%7C0%7C0%7C637943499805621812%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=QHnjyb7wGayF3NXnPT9EaZ93DDBfW%2BRc2EzS6oHD%2FZ4%3D&amp;reserved=0>.

With thanks and best wishes

Rupert


Rupert Shepherd, PhD FSA
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