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This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. --------------- Hello again, I think an easy electronic version that could be integrated with databases would be great, although I agree that it needs some revision and doesn't work as well for specialised collections. For example I am struggling to find out how masons (the craftsmen, not the Society) are classified? Granite and stone masonry being big things up here in Aberdeen it's not all about mineral extraction and construction, but about aspects of manufacturing such as sawing, carving, polishing etc etc. (we don't have the ringbound version either, just a copy from 1983, so perhaps masons have popped up since). I also like the way Wakefield using the words rather than the numbers online - personally I think I'd prefer to use that on my catalogue too! Jenny Jenny Brown Curator (Industry) Museums and Galleries Education, Culture and Sport Aberdeen Maritime Museum Shiprow Aberdeen AB11 5BY E-mail: [log in to unmask] Direct Dial: (01224) 337719 Direct Fax: (01224) 213066 Explore Aberdeen's Industrial past! 1885: Industrial Aberdeen, 3 April-20 June, Aberdeen Maritime Museum Visit www.aagm.co.uk to search Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums Collections. Visit www.aberdeenquest.com for our young persons' guide to the Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums www.aberdeencity.gov.uk Please do not print this e-mail or any attachment unless absolutely necessary. >>> Briony Hudson <[log in to unmask]> 29/04/2010 17:07 >>> This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. --------------- Hello all 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. Briony Briony Hudson Keeper of the Museum Collections Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 1 Lambeth High Street London SE1 7JN tel: 020 7572 2211 fax: 020 7572 2499 email: [log in to unmask] website: www.rpsgb.org/museum Please note that I work part-time and am only at the Society on Wednesdays and Thursdays. I aim to respond to emails on my next available working day. RPSGB Museum is now on Facebook! CONFIDENTIALITY The information contained in these documents is confidential and is intended for exclusive use of the addressee(s). If you are not the addressee, any of use of these documents is unauthorised and prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please contact me directly by phone. -----Original Message----- From: Social History Curators Group email list on behalf of Jack Kirby Sent: Thu 4/29/2010 4:40 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [SHCG-LIST] SHIC This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. --------------- Dear all 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? Kind regards Jack Jack Kirby Collections Interpretation Manager Thinktank, Birmingham science museum e: [log in to unmask] w: http://www.thinktank.ac/ w: http://www.birminghamstories.co.uk/ t: +44 (0) 121 202 2279 f: +44 (0) 121 202 2337 -----Original Message----- From: Social History Curators Group email list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jenny Brown Sent: 29 April 2010 13:18 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [SHCG-LIST] SHIC This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. --------------- 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 Jenny Brown Curator (Industry) Museums and Galleries Education, Culture and Sport Aberdeen Maritime Museum Shiprow Aberdeen AB11 5BY E-mail: [log in to unmask] Direct Dial: (01224) 337719 Direct Fax: (01224) 213066 Explore Aberdeen's Industrial past! 1885: Industrial Aberdeen, 3 April-20 June, Aberdeen Maritime Museum Visit www.aagm.co.uk to search Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums Collections. 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