EMII European Standards Survey - Information Management Standards

European Standards Survey

3. Information Management Standards

Contents
	3.1	Content and Resource Description Standards - Terminology and Vocabulary Standards: Term Lists, Classification Systems, Thesauri Content and Structure Description Standards Data Content Metadata Biblographic Description Archive Description
	3.2	Technological Standards & Protocols Data Presentation and Encoding Image Format Searching Distributed Databases Protection of Intellectual Property

3.1 Content and Resource Description Standards

3.1.1 Terminology and Vocabulary Standards
This section is concerned with standards providing lists of terms, either in alphabetical listings (e.g. term lists), or structures (e.g. classification systems or thesauri) which can be used to describe and provide access to cultural heritage

3.1.1.1 Term Lists

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3.1.1.2 Classification Systems
'The aim of Classification is to make relationships between objects, etc via their context.' 'Social History and Industrial Classification [SHIC]', 2nd Edition, mda, 1993

Classification Details
Name:
Glass Subject Index for the Visual Arts
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
[to be confirmed]
Number of Museums:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Number of Objects Covered:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Usage by Significant Collections:
[n/a]

Classification Details
Name:
Vocabulary of Basic Terms for Cataloguing Costume, ICOM Costume Committee
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
[to be confirmed]
Number of Museums:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Number of Objects Covered:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Usage by Significant Collections:
[n/a]

Classification Details
Name:
Iconclass
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
24,000
Number of Museums:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Number of Objects Covered:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Usage by Significant Collections:
[n/a]

Classification Details
Name:
Revised Nomenclature
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
[to be confirmed]
Number of Museums:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Number of Objects Covered:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Usage by Significant Collections:
[n/a]

Classification Details
Name:
SHIC
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
[to be confirmed]
Number of Museums:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Number of Objects Covered:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Usage by Significant Collections:
[n/a]

Classification Details
Name:
SR = Saglig registrant for kulturhistoriske museer
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
600
Number of Museums:
104 (figures are: Actual)
Number of Objects Covered:
1,500,000 (figures are: Estimated )
Usage by Significant Collections:
Almost all Danish Culture Historical Museums, included The National Museum (department of late history).

Classification Details
Name:
ES = Etnografisk Samlings registrant
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
400
Number of Museums:
1 (figures are: Actual)
Number of Objects Covered:
300,000 (figures are: Estimated )
Usage by Significant Collections:
Ethnographic Collection in The National Musuem of Denmark

Classification Details
Name:
Centralregistrering 6
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
450
Number of Museums:
1 (figures are: Actual)
Number of Objects Covered:
200,000 (figures are: Actual)
Usage by Significant Collections:
DKC = The National Record of Culture History

Classification Details
Name:
GENREG
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
1,800
Number of Museums:
1 (figures are: Actual)
Number of Objects Covered:
250,000 (figures are: Estimated )
Usage by Significant Collections:
The prehistoric and medieval departments of The National Museum of Denmark

3.1.1.3 Thesauri

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3.2 Technological Standards and Protocols

3.1.2 Content and Structure Description (Metadata) Standards
'Content and structure description standards (also known as metadata standards, where metadata is understood to mean 'information about information') define and describe means of identifying and organising data content. Metadata describing a document can be: Included in the document itself Held in a separate document Transferred accompanying the document (e.g. as part of protocol headers).'
European Commission Memorandum of Understanding: Multi-media access to Europe's Cultural Heritage, final report of Working Group 1: Standards and Protocols for Interoperability of Systems.

3.1.2.1 Data Content Standards

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3.1.2.2 Metadata Standards for Resource Discovery and Interoperability

i. Overall Comments:

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Schema Use Details
Resource Type:
archival information in various form
Schema:
DKC: event + object classification system
Number of Museums:
1 (figures are Actual)
Number of Resources Covered:
- - - - (figures are Actual)
Usage by Significant Collections:
By agreement with Rosa Botterill and Christina Brown I describe, briefly in this form, - the classification of "objects" in a wide sense in the DKC. We classify not only physical objects which at some point of time entered a museum (with or without available acquisition-data). We also classify metaphysical "objects", i.e. legends and myths, oral tradition and such connected to a location. This location may - or may not have any other physical remains of cultural activity. Secondly we also classify objects/artefacts, which are only known through oral tradition handed over to professional surveyors, - indeed these objects constitute more than 50 % of our archival records on objects and thereby our knowledge/idea of what was - and is representative in a museum collection of "hard physical artefacts".

3.1.3 Bibliographic Description Standards

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3.1.4 Archive Description Standards

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3.2 Technological Standards and Protocols

3.2.1 Data Presentation and Encoding Standards

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3.2.2 Image Format Standards
Image format standards define ways of capturing, storing and compressing digital images.

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3.2.3 Searching Distributed Databases

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3.2.4 Protection of Intellectual Property

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Submission Details

i. Submitted by:	Jürgen Christoffersen
ii. Job title:	Curator
iii. Organisation:	DKC, National Museum of Denmark
iv. E-mail:	DKC-JCH@dkc.natmus.dk
v. Date Submitted:	07/03/2000