Significance field

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

Field details

Visibility: Private field
 Field ID: significance
Search example: significance: "national treasure"
Field type: Text field with 1,000-character limit
Field location: 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 its ID:

significance

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