8 Nov
2004
8 Nov
'04
3:41 a.m.
On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 16:47 +0000, Alex White wrote:
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
UML diag could be useful just to capture your thoughts, if it's a quick
job for you.
I can't mail you privately by the way - NTL's bouncing the message with
a 'microvax.org not found' error, although it resolves via ping OK.
Dodgy MX record somewhere?
cheers
Jules
What I'm puzzling over is how to record any
relationship between
hardware / software / documentation, or even to what extent any
relationship needs to be recorded. Thoughts on this would be most
appreciated, and I wonder what other museums do...
Question is, do we link the docs and software to that particular
machine, or is it better to just put those in essentially isolated
databases and recording that they're for such-and-such a model of
machine?
Record make and model that the main machine itself, docco, boards etc
apply to and also record an overall asset ID for the entire shipment
itself which links into a seperate table for information about who,
where, history of etc a shipment (machine, some manuals and a few tapes)
came from.
Manuals and bits can float around in the collection but can be tracked
back together as a complete "gift" from a person.
Want me to diagram it in UML?