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Thanks for this, Robert!

I had to dig around to find the Object Type field because my predecessor had renamed it "Curatorial Priority"! But I see it now. This list is very helpful, and definitely something we need to think about introducing somewhere.

Cheers,

Fatima

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Hi Fatima,

There was a field called "Object Type" which was renamed and used. The Medium field goes online and this Material Group field is essentially for grouping like materials for storage and sorting purposes. This is our list to give you an idea of what I am talking about!  -

* Ceramic: inorganic anthropogenic crystalline material created by heat.
* Chitin: polysaccharide long-chain polymers, includes arthropod exoskeletons.
* Collagen: organic natural protein-based material derived from animals, includes skin (hide, leather, parchment, etc) and other connective tissue (sinew).
* Composite: object made of more than one Material Group to a significant degree (significance not yet determined).
* Glass: inorganic anthropogenic vitreous material created by heat.
* Keratin: organic natural non-crystalline animal product composed primarily of fibrous structural proteins, includes hair, wool, horn (cattle, sheep, goat, and rhino), nails, claws, hooves, scales, reptile shell or carapace, feathers, beaks, quills, and baleen.
* Lacquer: predominantly East Asian lacquer-ware objects regardless of substrate (if there is one), represents a natural plastic resin made from the highly toxic sap of the Rhus verniciflua tree.
* Metal: inorganic crystalline material composed of metallic elements in
compounds or alloys.
* Painting: a composite object (see above) defined by process of construction which includes application of pigment in oil or similar medium.
* Paper: organic anthropogenic material comprised primarily of cellulose fibres pressed together to create flat sheets, includes works on paper and objects made of paper, includes papyrus.
* Photograph: composite object (see above) defined by process of construction which includes creation of image with light and various chemical processes, includes negatives or positive prints on paper, resin coated paper, glass plates, daguerreotypes, and ambrotypes (may require further development).
* Plant: organic natural plant-derived material (may require further differentiation from “Wood”, below).
* Plaster: inorganic anthropogenic crystalline materials created by initial heat and subsequent slaking, includes plasters and cement.
* Plastic: synthetic organic polymers.
* Skeletal: organic natural animal product composed partly of crystalline
phosphate or carbonate materials, including bone, teeth, tusk, ivory, antler, and mollusc shell.
* Stone: inorganic natural material, typically crystalline, with no anthropogenic alteration of structure.
* Textile: woven material, may be composite or primarily of any material, inorganic and organic.
* Unfired clay: inorganic natural fine-grained crystalline material modified in plastic state but not modified by heat.
* Wood: organic natural plant-derived material (may require further differentiation from “Plant”).

Robert
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Hi Robert!

Just following up to ask about your "Material Group". In our internal discussion, we also talked about separating material classification from general object classification. Do you enter your material classifications in the Classification field, or do you use the Medium field for that?

Thanks!

Fatima

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This is what we worked out for the Royal Ontario Museum's Art & Culture Classification. We also have a separate system for Material Group. Our Classification is based on the Objects Facet of the AAT (https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.getty.edu%2Fresearch%2Ftools%2Fvocabularies%2Faat%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7CTMSUSERS%40si-listserv.si.edu%7Cbb68302307bc4d29e48d08da7639334b%7C989b5e2a14e44efe93b78cdd5fc5d11c%7C0%7C0%7C637952285302868498%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=UJ8vJIm34zDzCjvPbmKu5CC4RBS14m6gv6iRsXmxE2w%3D&amp;reserved=0<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.getty.edu%2Fresearch%2Ftools%2Fvocabularies%2Faat%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7CTMSUSERS%40si-listserv.si.edu%7Cbb68302307bc4d29e48d08da7639334b%7C989b5e2a14e44efe93b78cdd5fc5d11c%7C0%7C0%7C637952285302868498%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=UJ8vJIm34zDzCjvPbmKu5CC4RBS14m6gv6iRsXmxE2w%3D&amp;reserved=0>) where they are in the following order:

Built Environment = AAT Built Environment (hierarchy name) of Objects Facet, includes tents.
Furnishings = AAT Furnishings, under Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name) of Objects Facet, includes furniture, lamps, rugs, curtains, etc
Armour = AAT Armor (protective wear), under Costume, which is under Furnishings and Equipment of Objects Facet; brought up a few levels because no one will want to browse through clothing trying to stumble across armour..
Clothing = AAT clothing, under Costume, which is under Furnishings and Equipment of Objects Facet; brought up a few levels because many people want adornment, specifically jewellery, to be separate.
Costume Accessories = AAT costume accessories, under Costume, which is under Furnishings and Equipment of Objects Facet; brought up a few levels just because.
Jewellery = AAT jewelry, under costume accessories / worn costume accessories, under Costume, which is under Furnishings and Equipment of Objects Facet; brought up a few levels because adornment objects are of great importance in the collection, including Earth Science collections.
Tools & Equipment = AAT Tools and Equipment, under Furnishings and Equipment of Objects Facet
Weapons & Ammunition = AAT Weapons and Ammunition, under Furnishings and Equipment of Objects Facet
Containers = AAT Containers, under Furnishings and Equipment of Objects Facet
Musical Instruments = AAT Sound Devices, under Furnishings and Equipment of Objects Facet.
Recreational Objects = AAT Recreational Artifacts, under Furnishings and Equipment of Objects Facet
Transportation Objects = AAT Transportation Vehicles (bits of vehicles are hypothetically under Components, and other objects that might be related to transportation, such as stirrups, are in Tools and Equipment. The AAT is
unsatistactory on this, but the only option is to consider all things associated with transportation to be Tools and Equipment
Religious & Ceremonial Objects = AAT ceremonial objects, under object genres by function, under Object Genres. Religious objects are under that, along with  ritual objects, sacred objects, etc, Also funerary objects but this was considered too important a group to be buried under here.
Commemorative Objects = AAT commemoratives, under object genres by function, under Object Genres.
Mortuary Objects = AAT funerary objects, under ceremonial objects,under object genres by function, however "funerary" is a completely inappropriate term. Archaeologists and Anthropologists often use "Mortuary" - something involving death.
Archaeological Objects = archaeological objects, under object genres by location, context or origin, where the definition is deeply offensive and actually wrong, but this is where it it is placed in the AAT hierarchy. The simple fact is that this is important to the majority of the Art & Cuture collections in this museum.
Models = AAT models (representations), under Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name) under the Objects Facet
Two-dimensional Visual Works = AAT paintings (visual works), prints (visual works) & drawings (visual works), and photographs, under Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name) under the Objects Facet
Three-dimensional Visual Works = AAT sculpture (visual works) , under Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name) under the Objects Facet
Textiles = AAT textiles (visual works), under Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name) under the Objects Facet
Currency & Exchange Objects =AAT exchange media, under Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name) under the Objects Facet, which is not entirely acceptable and so we have modified the name.
Information Objects = AAT information artifacts, under Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name) under the Objects Facet

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