Looking at the other side of Mike's question can I ask how everyone
uniquely identifies objects online? Can IDs be found
- within URLs
- in page metadata
- in visible page content
- in API queries/results?
Are there any online collections that don't present an identifier at all?
Or perhaps have a different id for the item online to what might be
presented in gallery?
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James Morley
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On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 5:32 PM, James Morley <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Looking at the other side of Mike's question can I ask how everyone
> uniquely identifies objects online? Can IDs be found
> - within URLs
> - in page metadata
> - in visible page content
> - in API queries/results?
>
> Are there any online collections that don't present an identifier at all?
> Or perhaps have a different id for the item online to what might be
> presented in gallery?
> On Oct 28, 2013 11:45 AM, "Mike Ellis" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I was down at Tate St Ives yesterday and being an interesting kind of
>> person (~cough~) I started looking at - and searching for - accession
>> numbers from the gallery labels using Google.
>>
>> I was wondering if:
>>
>> 1) your institution always / sometimes / never puts accession numbers or
>> unique ID's on-gallery
>>
>> and
>>
>> 2) whether your institution always / sometimes / never makes sure it has
>> online catalogue entries for items that end up being on-gallery.
>>
>> My in-depth research (of about 5 pictures) at the Tate seemed to indicate
>> that everything I looked for was on their online catalogue with the
>> exception of the borrowed items which [obviously] weren't.
>>
>> Anyway - any thoughts / info / anecdotes / research would make most
>> interesting reading to me..
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
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