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Information Management Standards 3.1

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
3.1.1.2 Classification Systems
'Arrangement of concepts into classes and their subdivisions to express the semantic relations between them.'

ISO/DIS 5127/6 1998

There are entries below for examples of widely used and 'de jure' classification systems. Please indicate if any of these are used and continue entering details of all others also in use in your country. Include the standard name, indicate the type (de jure, de facto or evolving), the total number of museums using each, the total number of objects covered and usage in any collections you consider to be significant (please specify why).
i. Please add any overall comments or observations about the availability and use of classification systems in your country:

Classification Details
Name:
Glass Subject Index for the Visual Arts
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
3,300
Number of Museums:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Number of Objects Covered:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Usage by Significant Collections
(enter name(s)):
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:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Number of Objects Covered:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Usage by Significant Collections
(enter name(s)):
Classification Details
Name:
Iconclass
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
24,000
Number of Museums:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Number of Objects Covered:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Usage by Significant Collections
(enter name(s)):
Classification Details
Name:
Revised Nomenclature
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
[to be confirmed]
Number of Museums:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Number of Objects Covered:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Usage by Significant Collections
(enter name(s)):
Classification Details
Name:
Social History and Industrial Classification, [SHIC]
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
100,000
Number of Museums:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Number of Objects Covered:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Usage by Significant Collections
(enter name(s)):
Classification Details
Name:
Type:
'De jure'? 'De facto'? Evolving?
Number of Terms:
Number of Museums:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Number of Objects Covered:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Usage by Significant Collections
(enter name(s)):
Classification Details
Name:
Type:
'De jure'? 'De facto'? Evolving?
Number of Terms:
Number of Museums:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Number of Objects Covered:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Usage by Significant Collections
(enter name(s)):
Classification Details
Name:
Type:
'De jure'? 'De facto'? Evolving?
Number of Terms:
Number of Museums:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Number of Objects Covered:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Usage by Significant Collections
(enter name(s)):
Classification Details
Name:
Type:
'De jure'? 'De facto'? Evolving?
Number of Terms:
Number of Museums:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Number of Objects Covered:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Usage by Significant Collections
(enter name(s)):
Classification Details
Name:
Type:
'De jure'? 'De facto'? Evolving?
Number of Terms:
Number of Museums:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Number of Objects Covered:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Usage by Significant Collections
(enter name(s)):
Classification Details
Name:
Type:
'De jure'? 'De facto'? Evolving?
Number of Terms:
Number of Museums:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Number of Objects Covered:
Figures are: Actual? Estimated?
Usage by Significant Collections
(enter name(s)):

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Created on: 20 January 2000