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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Wishlist for Exhibit Log
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 23:22:02 +0000
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At 08:26 PM 10/3/2005, Richard Damon wrote:
>Astrid, perhaps you missed the last sentence where I commented on the
>possibility of using variables to make a usage by usage variation.
>
>I will repeat that I believe that the caption and description needs to be in
>the Master Exhibit record and not the Exhibit link. I say this because one
>of the major motivations for a Master Exhibit List is the person who has
>many people attached to a single exhibit with identical information, and the
>desire that one be able to edit in one place and be reflected everywhere. If
>you do this the all identical can have his needs meet and if you want
>distinct fields you haven't lost anything as you can still make multiple
>exhibits like you currently do.

Hi, Richard:

I think this sounds really good but would
have *very* serious shortcomings in practice.
Your approach requires multiple "Exhibit"
records if we want any captions to be
different. This merely shifts the burden
of unnecessary work to those who want a
"Master Image List" that does *not* have
common-sense duplicated records. I would not
find such an approach an improvement.

I think the solution *might* be something
like: a "default caption" MIL field that
is used as the caption for any exhibit for
the image *unless* the caption is overridden
at the exhibit ("local") level. The usage
could be similar to sentence output.

>If you now add more information to the Master Exhibit record you get back to
>the problem of duplicated information.

You can't mean what I read you to mean, since
if you did it would be an argument *against*
what I think you propose. So I clearly do not
understand *something* here.

>That goes back to my last statement, the adding of variables to the
>caption/description. If the exhibit link as a memo field, then you could
>make the caption something like: Graduation photo of [EM1], class of 1920
>Mudville High School. ([EM2]).

That does not seem at all like a caption to
me, as I have discussed. It seems like a
description of the Image. A caption by
definition has to do with an Image's output
in a specific context, and is the text that
is associated with that *specific* output.

>(Where EM1 is the first part of the memo field of the exhibit link, etc.
>Maybe EM1 could be replaced with [W] if this exhibit would always be
>connected to a tag/person.
>
>With Exhibit Link Memos I think it would meet the needs of both groups.
>
>Richard Damon

Darrell


Darrell A. Martin
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