Bulk Update on interface (multiple edit form)

We need to plan on a way to do bulk updates of artifacts (and maybe also of publications? Would this help?) but through the interface.

The first point is to find a way to group artifacts for bulk updates. I think the best way would be search + filters, just like for users.

Then the next part is to find a way to bulk edit those entries with a same value, in the case of related information mostly. So for example materials, collections, and genres. We need to make sure we can both override current associations or add to them and also remove them altogether. ( we could also provide this feature for all other attributes of artifacts.)

This is because our Filemaker cannot handle those bulk updates anymore as pulling relational data in a table form is a nightmare. We also want to walk away from filemaker so these features will make it more convenient to work on the web admin pages.

Then to facilitate other updates in "bulk" style but in a more surgical way, we could have an inline edit form for artifacts which could be generated after results searched. We can limit the number of entries for this feature to work.

Thoughts?