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. 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.
With thanks and best wishes
Rupert
Rupert Shepherd, PhD FSA
Collection Information Manager
Please note new email address:
T +44 (0)20 7747 5921
Currently working remotely; calls to the number above should still reach me.
