Documentation Standards
In pursuit of its aim to aid in the retrieval and re-use of museum information the practice of documentation has generated many standards.
Tension can occur between the local implementation and interpretation of standards and the demands of universality for uniform retrieval. The successful application of appropriate standards to museum information is a core activity for those working with museum information such as registrars, collections managers and documentalists.
List of standards by function
Cataloguing
Collections management
Conservation
- Burra Charter
- ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property)
- IIC and ICOM-CC Declaration on Environmental Guidelines
- ISO 18923
- ISO 18933
- Venice Charter
Data standards
- CDWA Lite
- CIMI (Standards Framework for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information)
- Core Data Standard for Archaeological Sites and Monuments
- Dublin Core
- EAD (Encoded Archival Descriprion)
- EDM (Europeana Data Model)
- FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records)
- ISAD(G) (General International Standard for Archival Description)
- IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework)
- LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects)
- MARC 21
- MIDAS Heritage
- MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema)
- museumdat
- Object ID
- VRA Core
Data transfer protocols
Ethical
Ontologies
Vocabularies
- AAT (Art and Architecture Thesaurus)
- British Museum Object Names Thesaurus
- Chenhall's Nomenclature
- CONA (Cultural Objects Name Authority)
- Iconclass
- ISIL (International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related Organizations)
- ISO 5127
- LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings)
- SHIC (Social History and Industrial Classification)
- Spectrum terminologies
- TGN (Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
- ULAN (Union List of Artist Names)
- Vocabulary of Basic Terms for the Cataloguing of Costume
To be allocated
- AIA (Archaeological Institute of America)
- CHIN data dictionaries
- CIDOC Information Categories
- DOMUS
- Endangered Species Act
- GND (Gemeinsame Normdatei)
- ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione)
- Ministry of State for Antiquities standards
List of standards by sector
General heritage
- AAT (Art and Architecture Thesaurus)
- British Museum Object Names Thesaurus
- CCO (Cataloging Cultural Objects)
- Chenhall's Nomenclature
- CIDOC-CRM (CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model)
- CONA (Cultural Objects Name Authority)
- Core Data Standard for Archaeological Sites and Monuments
- EDM (Europeana Data Model)
- LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings)
- Object ID
- PAS 197
- SHIC (Social History and Industrial Classification)
- TGN (Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
- ULAN (Union List of Artist Names)
- VRA Core
Archives
- EAD (Encoded Archival Descriprion)
- ISAD(G) (General International Standard for Archival Description)
Archaeology
Built environment
Conservation
- Burra Charter
- ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property)
- IIC and ICOM-CC Declaration on Environmental Guidelines
- ISO 18923
- ISO 18933
- Venice Charter
Imaging
Libraries
- FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records)
- ISIL (International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related Organizations)
- MARC 21
- Z39.50
Museums
- AAM Code of Ethics
- CIMI (Standards Framework for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information)
- ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums
- LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects)
- museumdat
- SPECTRUM
- Vocabulary of Basic Terms for the Cataloguing of Costume
Fine art museums / art galleries
To be allocated
- CHIN data dictionaries
- CIDOC Information Categories
- DOMUS
- Dublin Core
- Endangered Species Act
- GND (Gemeinsame Normdatei)
- ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione)
- ISO 5127
- Ministry of State for Antiquities standards
- MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema)
- OAI-PMH
- Spectrum terminologies
See also
- Collections Trust's Terminologies page