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Standards and Best Practices
In this section you will find metadata, vocabulary, interchange, and procedural standards, as well as cataloguing rules used by museums. Browse our resources on standards for indexing, sorting, retrieving and sharing important collections information.
The Mystery of the '1940s Time Traveller' | The Changing Face of Online Brand Monitoring
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A case study from virtualmuseum.ca which looks at museum issues related to brand monitoring, viral marketing, Social Web, copyright, and conversational capital.
A Canadian Museum's Guide to Developing a Digital Licensing Agreement Strategy
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This second edition addresses the important questions museums face in developing a licensing strategy for digital content.
Core Standards for Canadian Museums
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Information on standards commonly used by Canadian museums and recommended by CHIN. Includes Canadian museum standards for metadata, terminology and classification, and cataloguing rules.
CHIN Guide to Museum Standards
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This guide explains why museum documentation standards are important, describes the main types of data standards and how they are used in Canadian museums, and provides access to the standards.
Digital Photography and Digitization of Museum Collections
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Digital Photography Course providing highly detailed information about every stage of digital photography and scanning of cultural artefacts.
Standards News
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This resource provides news on museum documentation standards developments and standards research, both within Canada and internationally, that impact Canadian museum practice.
The Cataloguing Guide for New Media Collections
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Guide providing to specialists in charge of describing, explaining, and exhibiting works of art sufficient knowledge to soundly manage, conserve and exhibit new media artworks.
Guidelines and Case Studies | Media Art and Museums
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Media art: Online set of guidelines and case studies designed for heritage professionals and cultural institutions seeking to expand their knowledge of the management of media artworks.
Social Computing from the McCord Museum's Website
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Report showing justification and results of a project by the McCord Museum to utilize social computing features on its Website, thus encouraging public interaction with the collections.
Best Practices for Museums | Digital Preservation
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An exploration of the best practices and practical recommendations for launching a digital preservation program at a heritage institution with access to a wide range of resources devoted to this topic.
CHIN Humanities Data Dictionary
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A valuable reference tool for museums with collections in history, ethnology, archaeology, and fine and decorative arts to standardize collections management and documentation.
CHIN Archaeological Sites Data Dictionary
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CHIN Data Dictionary for archaeological sites, proposing a 82-field metadata standard designed to standardize the information recorded about archaeological sites.
CHIN Artefacts Canada Natural Sciences Data Dictionary
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A valuable reference for museums with natural science collections to standardize collections documentation. The standard for the Artefacts Canada Natural Sciences Database.
CHIN Natural Sciences Data Dictionary
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A valuable reference for museums with natural science collections to standardize collections documentation.
CHIN Artefacts Canada Humanities Data Dictionary
0 commentsCHIN Artefacts Canada Humanities Data Dictionary
A valuable reference tool for museums with collections in history, ethnology, archaeology, and fine and decorative arts to standardize collections management and documentation. The standard for the Artefacts Canada Humanities Database.
