hei, Cheryl

do you know Afridoc? 
See at: http://icom.museum/afridoc/index.html

I think it's a very usefull guideline for catologuing archaeological and 
anthropological artifacts.


talita miranda
museu de folclore edison carneiro. rio de janeiro/ brasil
email: talita_castro at yahoo.com.br

--- Em qua, 3/6/09, Cheryl Klimaszewski <cklimaszew at brynmawr.edu> escreveu:

De: Cheryl Klimaszewski <cklimaszew at brynmawr.edu>
Assunto: [MCN-L] Cataloging culture/nationality for archaeological and 
anthropoligical artifacts
Para: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Data: Quarta-feira, 3 de Junho de 2009, 17:05

I'm writing from the Bryn Mawr College Art and Artifacts Collection, where we 
have recently completed our initial migration of data from a disparate 
collection of Access databases to a formal collections management database. 
Ours is a diverse study collection that includes archaeological and 
anthropological artifacts as well as fine arts objects.? We're wondering how 
other collections are dealing with cataloging culture and nationality 
information for objects that have cultural groups as makers as opposed to 
individual, known makers (also, where the cultural group may or may not always 
correspond to the same geographical region).? Our concerns mainly center around 
objects of African and Native American origin.

Though we're most specifically interested in how this data is stored in the 
cataloging system (i.e. Is the culture/nationality of the object entered into a 
designated "culture/nationality" field? Is an artist/creator record created for 
the entire cultural group? etc.), any general comments on cataloging 
anthropological and archaeological collections are also welcome. If anyone has 
a perspective on this that they would like to share, even if it's of the "Oh my 
god, whatever you do, just don't do it this way" variety, we'd certainly 
appreciate it.

Good wishes,
Cheryl
-- 
Cheryl Klimaszewski
Collections Information Manager
Bryn Mawr College
101 North Merion Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
office 610-526-5093
cklimaszew at brynmawr.edu

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