Thank you for the advice, Lucy! I'd like to clarify your point about suffixes as I haven't used a system like that before. Would the decimal number be coded -- in my case maybe .1 for 3D, .2 for photographs, .3 for stereographs, etc. -- or something different? Another issue with the collection is that parts of sets have been alternately differentiated with decimal and alpha suffixes (to what extent I'm not yet sure).

I would assume that the suffix is then applied to the artifact as part of its number. How would that be different from renumbering everything? Or would the suffix just be a PastPerfect-only code?

Beginning a trinomial system is on my agenda, but it will take some persuasion on my part to make it happen. This situation will definitely give me more ammunition, though!

Dan Grzesiak
Curator, Santa Fe Trail Center
Larned, KS

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