Hmm.. in generic terms, it is arguable that versions of an original photograph are derivative works. I guess it depends if you system can record the unique ID of works from which the object in question has been derived.
This can be done in notes, but that is unstructured so not that useful for digital re-use via data It might be worth asking someone who works in film about cataloguing. Films have multiple variations on the underlying information problem here. Some films are remakes and obviously version. Some have multiple "parent" artworks from which they derive Sounds like a challenging one! Message: 2 Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 23:47:18 +0000 From: Emma Jones <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [MCN-L] Version control of museum objects, especially photographs Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I would like to get an idea of who out there has found a way to manage multiple versions of a single object in their collections. No so much multiple examples of the same object, rather versions of the same one. As our photographs collection has built up over the last 100 odd years, a variety of versions have been created of the one object for preservation, access and other reasons. However we tend to have the "one catalogue record to rule them all", which sadly does not truly reflect our holdings. There are a number of ideas being put forward, but it would be great to hear how other institutions have/haven't tackled this issue, especially in regard to how you represent these versions in your CMS (we have XG). Thanks Emma Emma Jones Manager, Collection Information and Access team | Collection Services [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | t 02 62434476 Australian War Memorial | GPO Box 345 Canberra ACT 2601 | www.awm.gov.au [AWM Logo not displayed in text email] ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This message may contain confidential information and is intended only for its recipient(s). 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If I ever get the chance, I'm going to see what I can do with a standard version control system like git and standardized branching. But until then, as far as I know this is untested (and VCS systems are not at their best maintaining info about binary files). ari > On Jul 21, 2015, at 7:47 PM, Emma Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would like to get an idea of who out there has found a way to manage > multiple versions of a single object in their collections. No so much > multiple examples of the same object, rather versions of the same one. As > our photographs collection has built up over the last 100 odd years, a > variety of versions have been created of the one object for preservation, > access and other reasons. However we tend to have the "one catalogue record > to rule them all", which sadly does not truly reflect our holdings. 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