CIDOC Guidelines for Museum Object Information: References


This page is part of the International Guidelines for Museum Object Information: The CIDOC Information Categories. Developed by the International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), this is a description of the Information Categories that can be used when developing records about the objects in museum collections. For more information about the Guidelines, turn to the initial page


Anglo American Cataloguing Rules (1988). Edited by M. Gorman and P.W. Winkler. 2nd ed. 1988 revision. London: Library Association.

Anon. (1995). "CIMI entertains new framework," Archives and Museum Informatics, 9(1), 120-123.

Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) (1994). Edited by T. Petersen. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
Available from Oxford University Press in print and electronic editions.

Chenhall, R.G. and Homulos, P. (1978). "Propositions for the Future: Museum Data Standards," Museum, 30(3/4), 1978, 205-212.

Getty Art History Information Program and the International Council of Museums. International Committee for Documentation (1993). Developments in International Museum and Cultural Heritage Information Standards. A joint project of Getty Art History Information Program and the International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums. Santa Monica, CA: Getty Art History Information Program.
Available from the Getty Art History Information Program or in electronic form from the ICOM archive sites.
World Wide Web: in preparation, June 1995.
E-mail: send a message to"listserv@nrm.se," with the instruction "send STANDARD.TEXT."

Harvey, K. and Young, P. (1994). Data Content Standards: A Directory. Unpublished document prepared for limited distribution. Ottawa: Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN).

International Council of Museums (1995). Standardization of Collections Inventories in Africa. Handbook of Standards. (AFRICOM programme.) 2nd version. Paris: International Council of Museums.

International Council of Museums. International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC) (1992). Data Standards (Fine Arts/Archaeology). Unpublished.

International Council of Museums.International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC) (1993). Data Standards (Fine Arts). Unpublished.

International Council of Museums. International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC) (1994). Directory of Thesauri for Object Names. CIDOC Data and Terminology Working Group. Edited by T. Petersen. Translated by C. Arminjon. Text in English and French. Williamstown, MA: Art & Architecture Thesaurus for CIDOC.
Available from the Art & Architecture Thesaurus.

International Council of Museums. International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC) (1995a). CIDOC Relational Data Model. CIDOC Data Model Working Group: Washington, D.C.

International Council of Museums. International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC) (1995b). A Guide to the CIDOC Relational Data Model. CIDOC Data Model Working Group: Washington, D.C.
Available from the Working Group or in electronic form from the ICOM archive sites via the preceding link.

International Council of Museums. International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC) (1995c). Draft International Core Data Standard for Archaeological Sites and Monuments. English and French versions. Archaeological Sites Working Group. International Council of Museums.
Available from the Working Group or in electronic form from the ICOM archive sites.
World Wide Web: in preparation, June 1995.

International Organization of Standardization (1985). Documentation Guidelines for the Establishment and Development of Multilingual Thesauri. (ISO 5964 1985 (E).) Geneva: ISO.

International Organization for Standardization (1986). Documentation Guidelines for the Establishment and Development of Monolingual Thesauri. (ISO 2788 1986 (E).) Geneva: ISO.

International Organization for Standardization (1988). Specification for Representation of Dates and Times in Information Interchange. (ISO 8601-1988 (E).) Geneva: ISO.

Perkins, J. (1995). "CIMI and CHIO: Cultural Heritage Information Online the short and the long of it," Spectra, 22(3), 10-14.

SPECTRUM: the UK Museum Documentation Standard (1994). Edited by A. Grant. Cambridge: Museum Documentation Association.
Available in print and electronic editions from the Museum Documentation Association.

Terminology for museums. Proceedings of an International Conference, held in Cambridge, England, 1988 (1990). Edited by D.A. Roberts. Cambridge: Museum Documentation Association.

Thornes, R. (1995). International documentation standards for the protection of cultural objects: a survey. Santa Monica, CA: Getty Art History Information Program. In press.

Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) (1994). Boston: G.K. Hall & Co.
Available in print and electronic editions from G.K. Hall & Co.


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