CollectionSpace customization notes:
Validations desired:
- Dimensions summary (before save or on save?)
Relabeling of fields:
Ubiquitous:
- "Please select a value" (currently variously truncated)==> "[select one]" or "[select]"
- "Please select an item" ==> "[select one]" or "[select]"
- Right panel (to accompany customization of field layout listed further below):
- "Term" ==> perhaps leave blank
- "Vocabulary" ==> perhaps leave blank
- "Field" ==> perhaps leave blank
Cataloging fields
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Object Identification Information:
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Default CollectionSpace field name | Requested PAHMA field name | Notes |
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Identification Number * | Museum Number * |
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Number of Objects | Number of items |
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Brief Description | Description |
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Object Description Information (Content):
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Default CollectionSpace field name | Requested PAHMA field name | Notes |
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People | Cultural Group | should we include "(depicted or shown)"? |
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Object Production Information:
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Default CollectionSpace field name | Requested PAHMA field name | Notes |
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Production People | Production Cultural Group |
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Object History and Association Information (Associations):
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Default CollectionSpace field name | Requested PAHMA field name | Notes |
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Associated Event People | Associated Event Cultural Group |
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Associated People | Associated Cultural Group |
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Customization of pick lists needed:
Cataloging:
Other Number |
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Field number |
Previous owner's number |
[NB: list items are still being determined] |
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Type |
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Previous cataloging label [or information] |
[NB: list items are still being determined] |
Customization of field display format:
Cataloging:
- Can the pick-list-within-a-cell format of the following be changed to the more elegant format seen in "Script", "Sex", "Phase", etc.?
- "Number Type" ("Other Number")
- "Currency", "Level", "System", "Type", "Language" ("Object Name")
- and other similar examples
- Will "Event Name Type", "Other Type", "Technique Type", "Role" be made into CV fields with pick lists?
Right panel:
- Terms Used:
- Format as [Term] & " (" & [role (if person) or field label] & "), so that information is presented in this way:
- Frederick C. Gamst (Collector)
- Phoebe A. Hearst (Donor)
- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Production Place)
- Ford Motor Company (Associated Organization)
- Format as [Term] & " (" & [role (if person) or field label] & "), so that information is presented in this way:
Custom fields needed:
Cataloging | Notes |
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Inventory piece count |
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Sex/gender represented | (a sculpture cannot be female, but it can be a representation of a female) |
Notes | (added to dimensions) |
Source | (eventually) |
Customizations of layouts:
Cataloging:
- Take some fields out of "Object Description Information" and place into their own collapsible group, "Biological Information":
- "Sex"
- "Phase"
- "Form" [maybe]
- "Age"
Questions:
- Can "Collection" be multi-valued?
- Can "Title" be multi-valued?
- Will "Dimension Summary" be automatically populated?
- In textual inscription, are "Method" and "Type" the same, or at least redundant?
- If "Number Type" in "Other Number" is set to "Field number", can this value be automatically added as "Field Collection Number" (either AJAX-esque or upon validation?)
- Can URLs for documents be entered in fields like "Owner's Reference", such that they'll serve as clickable links to those documents?