CHIN Guide to Museum Standards
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Metadata (Data Structure Standards)
- (to define the categories of data that make up a record)
- Vocabulary (Data Value Standards)
- (to govern the words or terms that can be used in a record, and how terms are related)
- Cataloguing Rules (Data Content Standards)
- (to determine the order, syntax and format for entering data values in a record)
- Interchange (Data Format Standards)
- (to define the machine-readable metadata standards that facilitate information exchange)
- Procedural Standards
- (to govern collections management procedures within the museum)
