[Bulk] Re: asset management - help :-) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 Nov 2004

On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 16:47 +0000, Alex White wrote:
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 On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:

  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? 
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