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From: Darrell Martin <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Wishlist for Exhibit Log
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 12:59:51 -0500 (GMT-05:00)


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Richard:

As to the description, I concur. But I disagree that a caption should be tied to the exhibit itself. "Caption" is a publishing term. It is defined by the context in which the item is used, not as something that is specific to the item at all times. (An "item" being anything that is not text, in TMG terms an "exhibit".)

Here's a specific example. I have a picture of the Dutton homestead in Springfield, Vermont, taken from a hill nearby probably in January, about 1950. Everything is covered in about two feet of snow. Captions that might be used for this picture, in different contexts:

In a report I print from TMG or in Second Site
"The Dutton family home"

In a magazine about country living
"A good time to be indoors"

In an environmental newsletter
"Will global warming mean no more snow in Vermont?"

One might easily imagine multiple captions for this picture in TMG, depending on what Tag I might link it to. I think that the "Caption" field itself is right where it belongs already; tied to the Tag or person "Exhibit Log".

It would be a direct contradiction to the idea of a "Master Exhibit List" as I see it to create multiple entries just because captions were different.

Darrell

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Damon <>
Sent: Oct 3, 2005 7:32 AM

On the idea of a "Master Exhibit" list, I would say that the
caption/description are part of the exhibit, not the link. If you want
different captions on the picture, make multiple "Master Exhibits" point to
the same photo (like we currently have multiple exhibits). That or allow the
use of variables in the caption that come from the link.

Richard Damon





Darrell A. Martin
a native Vermonter in exile in Illinois


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