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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
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Sent: Friday, July 29, 2022 3:14 PM
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Subject: Sharing your Classifications value list?
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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
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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
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.
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