TMS ID

Required if Applicable

Unique numeric identifier assigned to individual objects by the The Museum System (TMS), used by Print Collection and Photography Collection of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs

Table of Contents

1. Source
2. Guidelines
3. Format
4. Inheritance
5. Use With
6. See Also

Source

• The Museum System (TMS)

Guidelines

• The TMS ID is automatically populated into records when importing TMS records
• If adding a TMS ID to a record manually, it can be located in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog as the numeric slug of the record’s URL, e.g., https://wallachprintsandphotos.nypl.org/catalog/302742

Known Issue

TMS and the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog were sunset in February 2024. While TMS records can no longer be imported, source data about items in the Print Collection and Photography Collection can manually copied from Prints and Photographs Discovery (PPD) while import into MMS is not supported. TMS IDs can be found in PPD as the object id.
Last checked May 2025

Format

Preferred structure

unique numeric identifier

Example

302742 (Print Collection)
8917 (Photography Collection)

Inheritance

• TMS ID is typically assigned at the item level and not set to be inheritable
  • In rare cases where TMS ID is added to collections and containers, consider whether TMS ID should be Inheritable on a case-by-case basis

Use With

• TMS Object Number, the local classmark that corresponds to the TMS ID

See Also

• Prints and Photographs Discovery for source data about items in the Print Collection
• The Museum System for a corresponding definition in our glossary
• Importing TMS Records for a step-by-step of the process of importing records from TMS into the Metadata Management System (MMS)