thanks Rupert
yes absolutely … and trying to get some Collection Management Systems to automatically record Previous Reference for changes is a bane of my life.
We need a way of telling onward systems of these Deletes and Moves; and when the museum gets a new Collections Management System with a whole new set of
meaningless numbers we need a way of saying ‘old meaningless number’ -> ‘new meaningless number’ too
James
> On 8 Dec 2017, at 10:00, Shepherd, Rupert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> and ideally, ID has some permanence in Real Life being the Accession or Reference that might be physically on the object or document and not the database number from the current CollMS
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> Yes, but: I know we pretend they’re permanent, but accession / museum numbers do change - I’ve worked at a museum with 19,000+ temporary numbers, which, if the original numbers were found, would be changed to that original number. Here at the National Gallery, a work can come in and be dealt with as a long-term loan (L123) before being acquired and accessioned (NG6789). So, really, only meaningless numbers are likely to be permanent.
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> Rupert
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