External Email - Exercise Caution We’re a slightly odd case in that only a small portion of our overall collection was migrated into TMS initially (we’re working on it) and what was chosen was largely chosen to facilitate making the eMuseum site with the pieces our president/curator wanted to highlight. Collections was not involved with the selection or with the development of the initial classifications, as this went down around the time the last collections manager left and I started. So the initial scheme developed was: Fine Art Drawing Sketch Silhouette Wash Drawing Painting Genre Landscape Miniature Portrait Still Life Sculpture Bust Death Mask Figural Life Mask Relief Folk Art Folk Painting Double Portrait Drawing Genre Landscape Miniature Portrait Sign Silhouette Still Life Theorem Vogt Drawings Folk Sculpture Animal Bust Figural Relief Weathervane Native American Art Arctic Region California Region Great Basin Region Northern Athapaskan Region Northwest Coast Region Southwest Region The Plain Region Woodlands Region Presumably the curatorial team will add a block under Fine Art for prints once we migrate them in … Once we started cataloguing new acquisitions in TMS, I was allowed to create a system of classifications to relate to historic non-art items, which I based on the nomenclature system while bearing in mind the specific needs of our collection. We don’t search by classification or subclassification often (in part because the database is still mostly empty) but when I’ve done tests there haven’t been any problems. Architecture Buildings Components Decorative Elements Domestic Ceremonial Objects Cooking Equipment Food Service Furnishings Accessories Decoration Furniture Lighting Textiles Musical Instruments Paper Objects Personal Gear Adornments and Accessories Toilet Articles Weapons Toys and Recreation Clothing Attire Headgear Outerwear Shoes Underwear Other Fragments Raw Materials Photography Florence Ward Other Plowline Smith & Telfer Trade and Work Agriculture Animal Husbandry Crop Processing Hops Hunting and Fishing Planting and Harvesting Sugaring Containers Craft Masonry Medical and Scientific Metalworking Printing Textile Woodworking Ice Harvesting Maintenance Firefighting Groundskeeping Laundry and Cleaning Merchandising Mining Models To Be Catalogued Transportation Land Vehicles Leisure Vehicles Tack and Harness Parts Working Vehicles Water Vehicles Boats Boat Components Cassidy Percoco (she/her) Collections Manager Fenimore Art Museum & The Farmers’ Museum PO Box 800 | 5798 SH 80 Cooperstown, NY 13326 (607) 547-1494 From: The Museum System (TMS) Users <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Mahdi, Fatima Sent: Friday, July 29, 2022 3:14 PM To: [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.