Hello there,

I am setting about the task of cleaning up our collection database.
 Ours is not a large collection, and includes furniture, decorative arts
items, and several hundred works of art, 2-d and 3-d.
Over the years, it seems that the registrars have let errors in
classification creep in, and I am looking to remedy that.
I am looking for some help in my search for reference materials that
will define all of  the terms I will use to describe the collection.  Is
there a standard reference manual for the art items, and decorative arts
in general??  In the near future, I hope to have this data converted and
inserted into a new, more modern collection management software package.
 I would use the included dictionary to continue at that point, but this
data tune-up is the first step.   Any suggestions for me??
Many thanks in advance
Mike Oates
Ottawa, Canada

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