{"id":22165,"date":"2015-06-27T21:12:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T01:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitright.pmss.net\/?page_id=22165"},"modified":"2021-03-25T18:19:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:19:31","slug":"series-32-object-collections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=22165","title":{"rendered":"OBJECT COLLECTIONS Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"
Pine Mountain Settlement School
\nSeries 32: OBJECT COLLECTIONS
\nObject Collections Main<\/h5>\n

OBJECT COLLECTIONS Overview<\/h2>\n
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Matt Boggs, staff in woodworking shop, creating a wooden spoon. [X_100_workers_2664_mod.jpg] Creating new items for someone’s object collection.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The collections at Pine Mountain are not just archives and books. In fact the School is one large “COLLECTION” — one large ARCHIVE. Cumulatively, Archive Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections, holds the history and the story of this 100 year experiment in education.\u00a0 It is the archival record, largely documents and photographs, but it is so much more.<\/p>\n

In all the buildings there are items that are objects that often appear in our own inventories of homes or businesses. These objects may include paintings, ceramics, desks, chairs, kitchen ware, weavings, quilts, linoleum block prints, old farm tools, woodworking implements, etc.. Many of these objects were created by local craftspersons, such as the woodwork and many weavings. Many were “created” – donated by visitors, staff, and craft workshops. Further, many were created by a variety of commercial businesses.<\/p>\n

This aggregate collection of objects is difficult to maintain, but it is even harder to organize and maintain. The first step in good stewardship is maintenance of an inventory of the many interesting and “teachable” objects found at the School. To use the many objects and make them valuable tools in the educational mission of the institution is sometime daunting. It helps to aggregate, to bring like objects together.<\/p>\n

Some object collections obviously do not fit easily together within OBJECT COLLECTIONS. For example BOOKS have their own category and inventory. Pamphlets, newspaper articles, and other ephemera do not st well within archives, for example. Further, some OBJECT COLLECTIONS may now be only virtual (not a physical item) and have been assembled to bring an aggregate of examples that may be used for instruction. Corn-husk dolls and mats, and old farm tools not currently in use, but also not on-site, are, for example, two groups\u00a0 of OBJECT COLLECTIONS found in our archive.<\/p>\n

Making decisions about how to organized objects is a science and various cataloging rules have been developed to address a variety of similar objects. Botanical collections have their own rules. Museum items have their own standard cataloging demands. Unfortunately the “cataloging systems” used to address the organization of\u00a0 objects do not always talk to one another. Schema, or, the scheme for organizing sometimes do not last or go out of favor, or refuse to talk to one another, making the process of building an index difficult. The one nemesis in cataloging collections, is SIZE. The larger the COLLECTIONS, the greater the urge to increase the kinds of collections and common sense seems to fall away.<\/p>\n

All these challenges are still at work in the far-reaching technical world we all share and that supposedly can rapidly build collections of things. Today the language, what is now sometimes pulled together under the rubric of\u00a0 “SEO”, or Search Engine Optimization is used a lot.\u00a0 This means that a large collection of disparate material is “optimized” for the users and enables the user to search and find relevant requests through a “search\u00a0 engine optimization\u201d process. In simple terms, SEO means the process of improving your site to increase its visibility for relevant searches. In the computer world it is a horse race and most often driven by the need to sell you something.\u00a0 The better visibility your pages have in search results, the more likely you are to garner attention and attract prospective and existing customers to your “business.”\u00a0 Education often is a sideline.\u00a0 On this web site we try to keep pace, but sometimes we err and sometimes we fail miserably, and sometimes we are amazingly surprised at responses. It makes creating and using a large web site difficult but sometimes, exhilarating.<\/p>\n

All this said, this is an evolving story. .. an evolving history. OBJECT COLLECTIONS will most likely be the most shape-shifting part of this journey of bringing the history of the institution forward.<\/p>\n

Back to\u00a0Index to Object Collections<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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