EMII European Standards Survey - Information Management Standards

European Standards Survey

Information Management Standards - Sweden

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

i. Overall Comments:

The term lists in use is of two types. Made for classification and/or made for description. They are mostly in house products, but two term lists is used by many museums. One for words for image description, and one for cultural history collections objects. Some museums use The Union List of Artist Names and Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names.

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

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:
(ObjNoEg3'} (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:
Fotoraadets termlistor, 'The Swedish Photo Councils term lists'
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
3,000
Number of Museums:
20 (figures are: Actual)
Number of Objects Covered:
? (figures are: Estimated )
Usage by Significant Collections
The Term List is under development, and will be publicised in the end of the spring.

Term List Details
Name:
Sofies termlista (term list in a digital documentation system)
Type:
De facto
Number of Terms:
2,000
Number of Museums:
100 (figures are: Estimated )
Number of Objects Covered:
1,000,000 (figures are: Estimated )
Usage by Significant Collections
Terms for cultural history collections.

Term List Details
Name:
Nordiska museets termlista
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
1,500 (figures are Actual)
Number of Museums:
100 (figures are: Actual)
Number of Objects Covered:
1,000,000 (figures are: Actual)
Usage by Significant Collections
Terms for cultural history collections.

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

i. Overall Comments:

There are two systems used in Sweden. Outline of Cultural Materials and Outline for World Cultures are the most used systems for classification.

See: http://www.insam.mus.org/auktoriteter/index.html

Classification Details
Name:
Glass Subject Index for the Visual Arts
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
3,300
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:
1 (figures are: Estimated )
Number of Objects Covered:
20,000 (figures are: Estimated )
Usage by Significant Collections:
Nordiska musets collection of costumes.

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:

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:
Social History and Industrial Classification, [SHIC]
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
100,000
Number of Museums:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Number of Objects Covered:
0 (figures are: Actual)
Usage by Significant Collections:
[n/a]

Classification Details
Name:
Outline of Cultural Materials
Type:
De facto
Number of Terms:
900
Number of Museums:
200 (figures are: Estimated )
Number of Objects Covered:
8,000,000 (figures are: Actual)
Usage by Significant Collections
Cultural history and photograph collections.

Classification Details
Name:
Outline of World Cultures part of Human Relations Area File.
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
?
Number of Museums:
2 (figures are: Actual)
Number of Objects Covered:
170,000 (figures are: Estimated )
Usage by Significant Collections
Ethnographical collections.

3.1.1.3 Thesauri

i. Overall Comments:

Thesauri is not in widespread use in Sweden. There is some museums who testing, for example AAT, but not as a main system.

Thesaurus Details
Name:
Art & Architecture Thesaurus [AAT], Getty Vocabulary Program
Type:
De jure
Number of Terms:
120,000
Number of Museums:
6 (figures are: Actual)
Number of Objects Covered:
- (figures are: Actual)
Usage by Significant Collections:
The use is under testing in group of museums using a specific documentation system. See Carlotta in the survey part 2.1.ii. 1994 INSAM invited a person from Getty for a tour to introduce AAT. Some persons was interested, but no one has done a deeper study until now.

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

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:

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

i. Overall Comments:

The Swedish part of ISO, SIS (Standardiseringen i Sverige/ Swedish Institute for Standards, www.sis.se) develop and publish standards in use in Sweden. Some of the standards is adopted by and put in the documentation standard SAMOREG.

Standard Details
Name:
SCB-kod
Type:
De jure
Number of Museums:
>150 (figures are Actual)
Number of Resources Covered:
? (figures are Estimated )
Usage by Significant Collections:
All collections with topographical aspects connected. A topographical standard made by the national organisation for statistics in Sweden.

Standard Details
Name:
landskapskod
Type:
De jure
Number of Museums:
>150 (figures are Actual)
Number of Resources Covered:
? (figures are Estimated )
Usage by Significant Collections:
A code for the older form of counties in Sweden.

3.1.2.2 Metadata Standards for Resource Discovery and Interoperability

i. Overall Comments:

There are tests of Dublin Core in the national project SAMSOEK. Nothing more.

3.1.3 Bibliographic Description Standards

Standard		No of Museums	No of Resources	Figures are:
ISBD(A)	Older Monographic Publications (Antiquarian)	0	0	Actual
ISBD(CM)	Cartographic Material	0	0	Actual
ISBD(EP)	Electronic Publications	0	0	Actual
ISBD(M)	Monographic Publications	0	0	Actual
ISBD(NBM)	Non Book Materials	0	0	Actual
ISBD(PM)	Printed Music	0	0	Actual
ISBD(S)	Serials	0	0	Actual

Estimated/Unknown:

Swedish museums has an attitude to ignore international systems.

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	25	0	Actual
AACR2	Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules	0	0	Actual

Estimated/Unknown:

Other Comments:

There is a national database for libraries, all public museums can affiliate to that. Its a MARC based database system wish can communicate by the Z39.50

3.1.4 Archive Description Standards

Standard		No of Museums	No of Resources	Figures are:
ISAD(G)	General Rules	2	0	Actual

Estimated/Unknown:

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	2	0	Actual

Estimated/Unknown:

[n/a]

Other Comments:

The National Archives is the body and the authority for the museums.

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	10	0	Actual
SGML	ISO 8879	3	0	Actual
VRML	ISO/IEC 14772-1	2	0	Actual
XML	W3C REC 19980210	-	0	Actual

Estimated/Unknown:

[n/a]

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	Unknown
GIF	0	0	Unknown
JBIG	0	0	Unknown
JFIF	0	0	Unknown
JPEG	0	0	Unknown
MPEG	0		Unknown
PICT	0	0	Unknown
SPIFF	0	0	Unknown
TIFF	0	0	Unknown

Estimated/Unknown:

Normally, and the recommendation is that images is stored in TIFF format. For distribution the museums use whats appropriate at the time.

Other Comments:

[n/a]

3.2.3 Searching Distributed Databases

Standard		No of Museums	No of Museums	Figures are:
Z39.50	ISO 23950	10	0	Estimated
HTTP/CGI	ISO	5	0	Estimated

Estimated/Unknown:

The project SAMSOEK uses Z39.50. Some local applications uses HTTP/CGI.

Other Comments:

3.2.4 Protection of Intellectual Property

i. Overall Comments:

No museums uses any form of technical protection of Intellectual Property. Some tests have been done by the The Swedish Photograph Council, to use digital watermarks on photographs, thats it. One reason or explanation for this is that everything; collections, documents etc, in public institutions is for the citizens use. Just a few institutions has discuss the need of this form of protection. Use against copyright laws do not need to be controlled in a technical way is the standpoint in this matter. I.e. the museums is open for access.

Submission Details

i. Submitted by:	Bengt Wittgren
ii. Job title:	antikvarie/curator
iii. Organisation:	Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs (Kulturrådet)
iv. E-mail:	bengt.wittgren@kur.se or bengt@ylm.se
v. Date Submitted:	29/03/2000

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