CollectionSpace customization notes:
Validations desired:
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- Dimensions summary (before save or on save?)
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Relabeling of fields:
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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 * |
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Museum Number * |
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Number of Objects |
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Number of items |
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Brief Description |
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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)"? |
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 |
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Associated Event Cultural Group |
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Associated People |
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Associated Cultural Group |
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Customization of pick lists needed:
Cataloging:
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Other Number |
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Field number |
Previous owner's number |
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[NB: list items |
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are still being determined |
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Responsible Department |
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[NB: list items are still being determined] |
Collection |
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Archaeology |
Ethnography |
unknown |
not yet assigned |
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[NB: list items are still being determined] |
Record Status |
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complete [or "well cataloged", since nothing will ever be complete] |
basic |
basic — [at limit of what Registrar can do] |
incomplete/partial |
incomplete/partial — [at limit of what Registrar can do] |
not cataloged |
not cataloged — [at limit of what Registrar can do |
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[NB: list items are still being determined] |
Phase |
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seed |
[NB: list items are still being determined] |
seed "
Sex |
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(can default be changed to "n/a" or left blank?) |
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n/a [or blank] |
male |
female |
probable male |
probable female |
possible male |
possible female |
multiple |
unknown |
indeterminate |
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[NB: list items are still being determined |
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Language |
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English |
[NB: list items are still being determined |
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Script |
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[NB: list items are still being determined] |
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 |
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Notes |
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Inventory piece count |
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Sex/gender represented |
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(a sculpture cannot be female, but it can be a representation of a female) |
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Notes |
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(added to dimensions) |
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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:
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- Can "Collection" be multi-valued?
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- Can "Title" be multi-valued?
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- Will "Dimension Summary" be automatically populated?
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- In textual inscription, are "Method" and "Type" the same, or at least redundant?
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- 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?)
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- Can URLs for documents be entered in fields like "Owner's Reference", such that they'll serve as clickable links to those documents?