EMII European Standards Survey - Information Management Standards

European Standards Survey

Information Management Standards - Netherlands

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 Bibliographic 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
'Controlled indexing vocabularies, usually organised alphabetically with no relationships expressed between terms.' 'Guide to Cataloguing Using the Collections Information System', Victoria & Albert Museum, 1998

i. Overall Comments:

Het Nederlands Bureau voor Bibliotheekwezen en Informatieverzorging NBBI, het Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD, Netherlands Institute for Art History), Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst (RBK, Netherlands Office for fine Arts) and Landelijk Contact Museum Consulenten (LCM, National Museum Advisors Liaison Group) started a survey to get an overview of tenrminology recources. 913 museums received a questionaire, 510 museums responded. The report was used as source of information for this survey.

Term List Details
Name:
Dictionarium Museologicum
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
[to be confirmed]
Number of Museums:
0 (figures are: Estimated )
Number of Objects Covered:
0
Usage by Significant Collections:
No (figures are: Estimated )

Term List Details
Name:
Reyniès' Le Mobilier Domestique
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:

Term List Details
Name:
ISO 5127-3: Iconic Documents
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:

Term List Details
Name:
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
[to be confirmed]
Number of Museums:
0 (figures are: )
Number of Objects Covered:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Usage by Significant Collections

Term List Details
Name:
Mardoc IV
Type:
De facto
Number of Terms:
0
Number of Museums:
unknown (figures are: Estimated )
Number of Objects Covered:
unknown (figures are: Estimated )
Usage by Significant Collections
there is no actual number known of museums using this termlist.

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

[not yest answered]

3.1.1.3 Thesauri
'Controlled indexing vocabularies that provide preferred ways of referring to concepts, linking terms whose meanings are related, bringing together synonyms and noting other relationships between terms.' Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Getty Standards Program

i. Overall Comments:

[none]

Thesaurus Details
Name:
Art & Architecture Thesaurus [AAT], Getty Vocabulary Program
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
120,000
Number of Museums:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Number of Objects Covered:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Usage by Significant Collections:
In The Netherlands the AAT is in translation. At this moment it is not yet used by museums. The expectiation is that museums are going to use it when the translation is finished. Information on the Website of the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD): http://www.rkd.nl. The AAT is used as a model for the thesaurus of the Netherlands Antropology Museums (Overleg Volkenkundige Musea, OVM)

Thesaurus Details
Name:
British Museum Object Name Thesaurus
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
5,000
Number of Museums:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Number of Objects Covered:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Usage by Significant Collections
Not used in the Netherlands

Thesaurus Details
Name:
mda Archaeological Objects Thesaurus in association with The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England and English Heritage
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
2,200
Number of Museums:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Number of Objects Covered:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Usage by Significant Collections:
[n/a]

Thesaurus Details
Name:
Thesaurus of Geographic Names [TGN], Getty Vocabulary Program
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
900,000
Number of Museums:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Number of Objects Covered:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Usage by Significant Collections:

Thesaurus Details
Name:
Union List of Artists Names [ULAN], Getty Vocabulary Program
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
120,000
Number of Museums:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Number of Objects Covered:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Usage by Significant Collections:
[n/a]

Thesaurus Details
Name:
Systematische Natuurhistorische Trefwoordenlijst
Type:
De facto
Number of Terms:
0
Number of Museums:
0 (figures are: Estimated )
Number of Objects Covered:
0 (figures are: Estimated )
Usage by Significant Collections
Used by museums of Natural History

Thesaurus Details
Name:
Thesaurus Oecologische Omschrijving Vindplaatsen
Type:
De facto
Number of Terms:
unknown
Number of Museums:
0 (figures are: Estimated )
Number of Objects Covered:
0 (figures are: Estimated )
Usage by Significant Collections
Used by museums of Natural History

Thesaurus Details
Name:
GEO and TAX
Type:
De facto
Number of Terms:
0
Number of Museums:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Number of Objects Covered:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Usage by Significant Collections
Used by Natural History Museums with fosil collections

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

3.1.3 Bibliographic Description Standards
'The International Standard Bibliographic Description, ISBD, formal standard is the most suitable and widespread reference specification currently available for bibliographic description'.
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.

Standard		No of Museums	No of Resources	Figures are:
ISBD(A)	Older Monographic Publications (Antiquarian)	[n/a]	[n/a]	Unknown
ISBD(CM)	Cartographic Material	[n/a]	[n/a]	Unknown
ISBD(EP)	Electronic Publications	[n/a]	[n/a]	Unknown
ISBD(M)	Monographic Publications	[n/a]	[n/a]	Unknown
ISBD(NBM)	Non Book Materials	[n/a]	[n/a]	Unknown
ISBD(PM)	Printed Music	[n/a]	[n/a]	Unknown
ISBD(S)	Serials	[n/a]	[n/a]	Unknown

Estimated/Unknown:

[n/a]

Please also indicate if the either or both of the following are in use in your country for bibliographic description:

Standard		No of Museums	No of Resources	Figures are:
MARC Format	Machine Readable Cataloguing	0	0	Unknown
AACR2	Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules	0	0	Estimated

Estimated/Unknown:

MARC format is a standard used by some museums and AACR2 is not used at all

Other Comments:

[n/a]

3.1.4 Archive Description Standards
The International Standards of Archival Description, ISAD(G), is a formal standard issued by ICA (International Council of Archives). It provides general rules for archival description.

Standard		No of Museums	No of Resources	Figures are:
ISAD(G)	General Rules	[n/a]	[n/a]	Unknown

Estimated/Unknown:

[n/a]

The International Standard Archival Authority Record ISAAR(CPF), also issued by ICA provides specific rules for corporate bodies, persons and families.
Standard		No of Museums	No of Resources	Figures are:
ISAAR (CPF)	Corporate bodies, Persons and Families	0	0	Actual

Estimated/Unknown:

[n/a]

Other Comments:

[n/a]

3.2 Technological Standards and Protocols

3.2.1 Data Presentation and Encoding Standards

Standard		No of Museums	No of Documents	Figures are:
HTML	ISO/IEC 15445	[n/a]	[n/a]	Unknown
SGML	ISO 8879	0	0	Actual
VRML	ISO/IEC 14772-1	0	0	Actual
XML	W3C REC 19980210	0	0	Actual

Estimated/Unknown:

Museums don't use these standards themselves, they contract others.

Other Comments:

[n/a]

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

Standard	No of Museums	No of Images	Figures are:
BMP	0	0	Actual
GIF	[n/a]	[n/a]	Unknown
JBIG	0	0	Actual
JFIF	0	0	Actual
JPEG	[n/a]	[n/a]	Unknown
MPEG	0		Actual
PICT	0	0	Actual
SPIFF	0	0	Actual
TIFF	[n/a]	[n/a]	Unknown

Estimated/Unknown:

GIF, JPEG and TIFF are the Image format standars used in The Netherlands, we don't know the number of museums using these standards.

Other Comments:

[n/a]

3.2.3 Searching Distributed Databases

Standard		No of Museums	No of Museums	Figures are:
Z39.50	ISO 23950	[n/a]	[n/a]	Unknown
HTTP/CGI	ISO	[n/a]	[n/a]	Unknown

Estimated/Unknown:

[n/a]

Other Comments:

[n/a]

3.2.4 Protection of Intellectual Property

i. Overall Comments:

In The Netherlands there are no standards used for protection of intellectual property.

Submission Details

i. Submitted by:	Jeanne Hogenboom and Karien Beijers
ii. Job title:	Director Bureau IMC and researching student
iii. Organisation:	Bureau IMC and Reinwardt Academie
iv. E-mail:	bruoimc@euronet.nl and karienb@mus.ahk.nl
v. Date Submitted:	01/05/2000

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