---------- From: Kathy Hackett To: Geraldine Rodwell Subject: RE: Negative Numbering - How do YOU do it? Date: Tuesday, 6 May 1997 11:30AM My system has been inherited from the Photography department. It is numbered according to 1) object category 2)format 3) numerical sequence eg: a 35mm negative depicting a train would be numbered TL-SMN-112 (Transport Land-small monochrome negative-the 112th negative sheet in the Transport Land category). The next two negative sheets received could be on a different format and would be filed with sequential numbers eg: TL-MMN-113 would be another picture of land transport shot on medium monochrome negative and TL-SCN-114 would be a land transport picture shot on 35mm colour neg. Individual frames are shown as the edge number added to the above number eg: TL-SMN-113-1 or TL-SMN-1A would be the first frame of a roll filed in one sheet of archival neg protectors. Kathy Hackett Photo Library Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia >Wondering how other museums number their negatives for use in a database?