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I would fully endorse all that has been said thus far on this topic, especially the use of multiple SHIC classifications.
With a bit of tweaking SHIC can also be used as a public way into collections.
http://www.wakefieldmuseumcollections.org.uk/photographs/index.asp?mwsquery=(%7BCategory%7D=%7Bphotographs%7D) takes you to the Wakefield Museums online catalogue of photos. If you search by theme you are actually searching by SHIC number.
This was done by a simple cross reference of SHIC numbers and theme terms in the database that drives the website.
I'm no longer based at Wakefield but if anybody wants any more detail about how we achieved this I'd be happy to discuss it.
Tim
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I no longer use SHIC because it doesn't work so well for a specialist collection!
However, I found it an extremely useful tool when working with a general social history collection. We gave objects multiple SHIC numbers if appropriate - so in the earlier example, the hat would have retained its 3 number and gained others - even more useful if you're searching for connections.
I was SHCG Chair when the proposed development was in discussion, but nothing happened before I left the committee. One aspect of the proposal was to move to an electronic version that could be easily integrated into databases to assist with terminology control.
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I found SHIC incredibly useful for Thinktank's Changing Times community curated project in 2007-8. Because we gave the group of community selectors a free choice of subjects, we had to have a way of identifying possible exhibits from the group's initial ideas, to show them whether or not the subject was viable (e.g. gardening turned out not to be viable as we had little more than a couple of lawnmowers, while music ended up as a theme within the exhibition as we had a few instruments and a lot of technology like gramophones and cassette players).
Identifying the objects from little-used parts of the collection would have been much more difficult without SHIC.
As Vic has mentioned this question has come up before. If you go to the list homepage on the web
(http://www.mailtalk.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=SHCG-LIST) and put SHIC into the Search Archives box in the right hand column, you will messages from previous threads in 2005 and 2006 when there seemed to be a broadly similar response that many museums were still finding it useful. (Right click on the message ID in the left column of results then click Open in New Window to read any particular message in full, then close the new window to return to the list of results in the original window).
Did anything ever come of the Collections Trust's (then MDA's) idea to further develop SHIC, which was mentioned in 2006?
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Jack
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Dear All,
We're currently restructuring and its got my looking at how we classify our collections. I like SHIC but how many people use it in other museum services?
Appreciate any thoughts as always.
Jenny
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