![]() ![]() ![]() Mervin Richard is chief conservator at the National Gallery, Washington and co-director of the ConservationSpace project. Jay Hoffman is founder and CEO of Gallery Systems, a company that produces collections, exhibitions, and conservation management software, notably TMS. Linda Hohneke is the senior book conservator at the Folger Shakespeare Library and one of the co-creators of the Filemaker Pro-based documentation database used at the library. In addition to serving as a panelist, Sarah also served as moderator for the discussion. ![]() Sarah Norris, a conservator at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, had worked with a contract MySQL developer to create a treatment documentation database for her institution. And I felt more convinced that we need to have more opportunities to discuss issues like this one that impact conservators across specializations. At the end of this well attended session, not only were both of these satisfied, I also came away with some thoughts about how to improve my current work flow, even though the system used by the institution I work for wasn’t addressed directly. ![]() And having followed some of the progress of the Mellon Foundation funded project ConservationSpace through their various sites, I wanted to learn more about it too. Firstly, I was eager to hear how other institutions make use of databases in their documentation. There were a couple of reasons why I was looking forward to this session before the meeting. Though the use of a database as part of a conservation treatment documentation work flow has been presented in the past at AIC at least once in my memory and has been the subject of presentations at the Museum Computer Network’s annual meetings in 2008, 20, as a field, we don’t often talk about this aspect of our work. ![]()
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