Significance

The Significance field records a description of how and why the object is significant or important.

Field details

Private field
significance is the field ID
Text field with 1,000 character limit
Detail tab in the object cataloguing page

Cataloguing tips

Record an object’s meaning and importance within the collection.

If an object is not significant, consider it for deaccession.

Search tips

You can search on this field with:

significance

For example, enter significance: "national treasure" into the search field to find objects identified as national treasures.