Howdy, We redid ours a couple years ago, I’m partial towards classifications being primarily a query aid rather than oriented towards specific departments or sections of a museum. For example a pretty classic request I use in TMS training to explain querying is “Imagine someone asks you ‘how many On View paintings are there?” Architectural Element Book and Manuscript Ceramics Decorative Arts Drawing and Collage Figure Installation Jewelry Mask Painting Photograph Print Sculpture Textile and Fiber Arts Time Based Media By FAR our most imprecise one is Sculpture – which essentially contains all 3D objects that did not have big enough sets to warrant their own classification (for example the museum has enough Ceramics and we get enough requests for lists, etc, that it was worth breaking it out from Sculpture or Dec Arts. Same with Jewelry. Jeremy Munro (he/him/his) Digital Project Manager / Database Administrator T 202.633.4784 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 950 Independence Avenue SW MRC 708 PO Box 37012 Washington DC 20560 [[log in to unmask]] africa.si.edu<https://africa.si.edu/> [[log in to unmask]]<https://www.facebook.com/si.africanart/> [[log in to unmask]] <https://twitter.com/si_africanart> [[log in to unmask]] <https://www.instagram.com/smithsonian_africanart/> [[log in to unmask]] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/nmafa/> [[log in to unmask]] <https://www.youtube.com/user/SmithsonianAfricanAr> Exhibitions now on Online Backtalk: Artists on Native, African, and African American Stereotypes<https://stereotypes.africa.si.edu/> In D.C. Iké Udé: Nollywood Portraits<https://africa.si.edu/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/ike-ude-nollywood-portraits/> From: The Museum System (TMS) Users <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Mahdi, Fatima Sent: Friday, July 29, 2022 3:14 PM To: ListServ tmsusers <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Sharing your Classifications value list? External Email - Exercise Caution Hello, TMSers! We are reviewing our "Classification" field list. Would anyone be willing to share their classifications? Has anyone had any issue in searching on or reporting on sub-classifications? Thank! Fatima -- Fatima Mahdi Collections Information Specialist/TMS Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 200 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard Richmond, VA 23220-4007 Tel. 804.340.1443 Pronouns: she/her/hers Teleworking Tuesdays & Fridays [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> I acknowledge that I live and work on the ancestral homelands of the Chickahominy, Pamunkey, Mattaponi, and Upper Mattaponi tribes of central Virginia. I offer my deepest respect for their resilience and continued stewardship of their culture. To unsubscribe, send an email to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> with the following commands in the body of the email: signoff TMSUSERS // eoj You will receive a confirmation that your subscription has been removed. To unsubscribe, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following commands in the body of the email: signoff TMSUSERS // eoj You will receive a confirmation that your subscription has been removed.