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.
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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
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Richmond, VA 23220-4007
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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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