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Collections Management
Explore these resources to learn about collections management systems and practices. You will be able to access comprehensive reviews of collections software and advice on how to select an ideal software package for your museum. The resources also cover cataloguing procedures, documentation standards and much more.
Cultural Resource Management (CRM)
Cultural Resource Management (CRM)
Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Online Journal from the National Park Service, USA.
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms
From the Web site / du site W3 : "A thesaurus of over 6,300 terms for indexing visual materials, as well as numerous cross references. New terms are added regularly. TGM I is a companion document to Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms (TGM II). This interface employs Java script, which may not be fully supported by older browsers."
Ontario Museum Notes
Ontario Museum Notes
Ontario Museum Notes
Guidelines for Forming Language Equivalents: A Model Based on the Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Guidelines for Forming Language Equivalents: A Model Based on the Art & Architecture Thesaurus
From the Web site: "This document describes and supports the work of the International Terminology Working Group, the task of which is to provide equivalents in several languages to the terminology in the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). Although the aim of the present document is to provide guidelines for forming equivalents between the AAT and existing controlled vocabularies in other languages, the principles outlined here may be useful to others seeking to link vocabularies in different languages."
Registre des vocabulaires contrôlés du gouvernement du Canada
Registre des vocabulaires contrôlés du gouvernement du Canada
Du site W3 : "...vocabulaires contrôlés utilisés par le gouvernement du Canada"
Art & Architecture Thesaurus Browser
Art & Architecture Thesaurus Browser
Du site W3 : "The AAT is a structured vocabulary containing around 125,000 terms and other information about concepts. Terms in AAT may be used to describe art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture, and archival materials. The coverage of the AAT ranges from Antiquity to the present, and the scope is global."
The Cataloguing Guide for New Media Collections
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The Cataloguing Guide for New Media Collections
Documenting Your Collections: Info-Muse Network Documentation Guide
Documenting Your Collections: Info-Muse Network Documentation Guide
This is the electronic version of Documenting Your Collections: Info-Muse Network Documentation Guide, available for purchase from the SMQ. The guide, designed to simplify the task of standardizing documentation on your collections, was originally published in 1992 and since then has been updated regularly.
Les stratégies de gestion et de conservation préventive des documents électroniques
Les stratégies de gestion et de conservation préventive des documents électroniques
Du site W3 : "La conservation préventive des documents a pour objectif de prendre les mesures nécessaires pour éviter leur vieillissement et leur altération du fait de leur utilisation ou simplement du fait du vieillissement naturel."
Métadonnées: la première étape dans la fourniture d'accès aux informations du secteur public
Métadonnées: la première étape dans la fourniture d'accès aux informations du secteur public
Du site W3 : "Outre les problèmes institutionnels et organisationnels abordés dans les chapitres précédents, la fourniture d'un accès en ligne aux ISP requiert une infrastructure technique comprenant :
· La télématique et l'internet,
· Des banques de données structurées,
· Des services de catalogues de données."
CHIN Data Dictionary for Archaeological Sites
0 commentsCHIN Data Dictionary for Archaeological Sites
Search the 82-field CHIN Data Dictionary for Archaeological Sites to standardize the information you record about archaeological sites.
DELTA System (DEscription Language for TAxonomy)
DELTA System (DEscription Language for TAxonomy)
From the Web site / du site W3 : "The DELTA format (DEscription Language for TAxonomy) is a flexible and powerful method of recording taxonomic descriptions for computer processing."
Introduction to Standards
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Efficient standards are key to making museum collections data accessible; CHIN�s Introduction to Standards can help.
Harmony Project
Harmony Project
Du site W3 : "The Harmony Project, a international collaboration funded by DSTC, JISC, and NSF , will investigate a number of key issues in describing such complex multimedia resources in digital libraries:
*Collaborate with metadata communities to develop and refine developing metadata standards that describe multimedia components.
*Investigate a conceptual model for interoperability among community-specific metadata vocabularies. Such a conceptual model should be able to represent the complex structural and semantic relationships in multimedia resources.
*Investigate mechanisms for expressing such a conceptual model, including technologies currently under development in the W3C (XML, RDF, and their associate schema mechanisms).
*Develop mechanisms to map between community specific vocabularies using such a conceptual model."
Center for Arts and Culture
Center for Arts and Culture
From the Web site / du site W3 : "The Center for Arts and Culture is an independent think tank that aims to broaden and deepen the national conversation on culture and cultural policies.
Founded in 1994 in Washington, DC, the Center is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization, supported by foundations and governed by a board of directors. Its mission is to enlarge the public vision of the centrality of the arts and culture in everyday life."
Current Research
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Learn about current and ongoing CHIN Standards Research.
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms (TGM II)
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms (TGM II)
From the Web site / du site W3 : "A thesaurus of more than 600 terms developed by the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division with input from other archival image repositories, the Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms (TGM II) is the second edition of Descriptive Terms for Graphic Materials: Genre and Physical Characteristic Headings (1986). The cataloging code for the first edition, gmgpc, has been retained. New terms are added regularly. The name reflects its role as a companion to Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms (TGM I). The thesaurus search interface employs Java script, which may not be fully supported by older browsers."
Library of Congress Maintenance Agency page for International Standard Z39.50
Library of Congress Maintenance Agency page for International Standard Z39.50
Du site W3 : "This page provides links to information about Z39.50 resources and about the development and maintenance of Z39.50 (existing as well as future versions) and the implementation and use of the Z39.50 protocol.
"Z39.50" refers to the International Standard, ISO 23950: "Information Retrieval (Z39.50): Application Service Definition and Protocol Specification", and to ANSI/NISO Z39.50. The Library of Congress is the Maintenance Agency and Registration Authority for both standards, which are technically identical (though with minor editorial differences).
The standard specifies a client/server-based protocol for searching and retrieving information from remote databases."
Documenting African Collections: Handbook of Standards
Documenting African Collections: Handbook of Standards
"In 1996, the publication "Handbook of Standards. Documenting African Collections" saw the light. It was the result of four years of work of professionals of seven African museums, together with ICOM's International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC). This handbook, by inciting the museums to update their inventories, fulfils our mission of implementing standardised professional practices, and responds to a major concern of our Organisation: the fight against the illicit traffic of cultural property."
Thesauri principles and practice
Thesauri principles and practice
Du site W3 : "The main purpose in this paper is to make three points:
. A simple name list without some rules will rapidly become a mess.
. Only three simple rules are needed; using them will make life easier for you, not harder.
. So long as you stick to these rules, you can take an existing thesaurus and adapt it to your needs; you are not limited to using the terms which are listed in it already, and you are not obliged to use more detail than you need."
Cataloguing Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images (CCO)
Cataloguing Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images (CCO)
From the Web site / du site W3 : "CCO provides guidelines for selecting, ordering, and formatting data used to populate catalog records. CCO is designed to promote good descriptive cataloging, shared documentation, and enhanced end-user access. Whether used locally to develop training manuals, or universally as a guide to building consistent cultural heritage documentation in a shared environment, CCO will contribute to improved documentation and enhanced access to cultural heritage information.
The CCO Project team would like your comments on the chapters that are available. Your feedback is needed to ensure that the CCO guide will be a useful cataloguing tool for the community."
Data Standards Organizations
0 commentsData Standards Organizations
Many data standards organizations work to improve data standards. This resource provides information on these organizations and their roles in standards development and implementation.
Principles and Methods of Data Cleaning - Primary Species and Species-Occurrence Data, version 1.0
Principles and Methods of Data Cleaning - Primary Species and Species-Occurrence Data, version 1.0
(Page 1) This document will examine methods for preventing as well as detecting and cleaning errors in
primary biological collections databases. It discusses guidelines, methodologies and tools that can
assist museums and herbaria to follow best practice in digitising, documenting and validating
information. But first, it will set out a set of simple principles that should be followed in any data
cleaning exercises.
Indigenous Collections Management Project
Indigenous Collections Management Project
From the Web site / du site W3 : "The CRC for Enterprise Distributed Systems Technology is currently undertaking a collaborative project with the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Cultural Resources Centre (CRC). The objective of this project is to investigate how information technology tools and standards can be refined and extended to enable indigenous communities to preserve and protect their unique indigenous cultures, knowledge and artefacts whilst supporting traditional protocols and facilitating better cross-cultural communication and understanding."
Building Digital Collections: Technical Information and Background Papers
Building Digital Collections: Technical Information and Background Papers
Du site W3 : "The information on this page documents technical activities related to the American Memory Collections produced by the National Digital Library Program (NDLP) at the Library of Congress."
Guide d'utilisation du Dublin Core
Guide d'utilisation du Dublin Core
Du site W3 : "Ce document est destiné à servir de point de départ aux utilisateurs du Dublin Core. Il aidera les non spécialistes à créer des notices descriptives simples pour des sources d'information (telles que, par exemple, des documents électroniques). Les spécialistes pourront également considérer ce document comme une référence utile à la documentation du Dublin Core car il est modifié et croît au fur et à mesure des changements."
Documentation des collections africaines : Manuel de normes
Documentation des collections africaines : Manuel de normes
Le Manuel de normes. Documentation des collections africaines de l'ICOM
Bibliographie sélective : Documentation et gestion des collections
Bibliographie sélective : Documentation et gestion des collections
Du site W3 é from the Web site : "Cette bibliographie est divisée en trois (3) parties. Dans Associations muséales et professionnelles, vous trouverez des adresses de sites Web d'associations qui offrent une mine d'information sur la documentation et la gestion des collections. Puis, dans les sections Documentation des collections et Gestion des collections, nous vous proposons une petite sélection d'ouvrages et de sites en rapport à ces secteurs d'activités. La mise à jour de cette bibliographie et la consultation de toutes les pages Web ont été réalisées en octobre 2002."
Museum Handbook (Parts I-III)
Museum Handbook (Parts I-III)
From the Web site / du site W3 : "It is a reference guide on how to manage, preserve, document, access and use museum collections.
There are three parts to the NPS Museum Handbook:
Part I, Museum Collections
Part II, Museum Records
Part III, Museum Collections Use."
International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums (ICOM-CIDOC)
International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums (ICOM-CIDOC)
CIDOC, le Comité International pour la DOCumentation de l'ICOM, offre des conseils concernant les meilleures pratiques et les nouveautés dans le domaine de la documentation muséale.
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CHIN’s Digital Heritage Symposium
February 4th and 5th, 2010
Video of the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, presenting the renewed virtualmuseum.ca.
