TMS Object Number

Required if Applicable

Local classmark assigned by the Print Collection and Photography Collection of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs in The Museum System (TMS)

Table of Contents

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

Source

• Print Collection and Photography Collection of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs

Guidelines

• The TMS Object Number is automatically populated into records when importing TMS records
• If adding a TMS Object Number to a record manually, it can be located in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog as the Object Number displayed in the record (see example)

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 Object Numbers can be found in PPD as the object number.
Last checked May 2025

Format

Preferred structure

classmark

Example

99109 (Print Collection)
91PH002.022 (Photography Collection)

Inheritance

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

Use With

• TMS ID, the unique numeric identifier that corresponds to the TMS Object Number

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)