Minimum Categories for Museum Object:
Another Attempt at Unification.

E.S. Kuzmina
State Historical Museum
Phone: (095)924-55-42
Å-mail: lask@shm.ru

L. Noll
Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum
E-mail: noll@gmii.museum.ru

The research was done in frame of Net Cultural Heritage in Russia The working group aimed at determining minimum information categories for museum object information in Russian INTERNET and at its unified describing. The document under the name “Russian Internet: Minimum Information Categories for Museum Object (RIMICMO)” was worked out. The setting of information categories and its need to apply controlled vocabularies (thesauri and authority lists) were fixed after an examination of ten Info-systems (foreign and of our country):

  1. MICMO. Minimum information categories for museum objects: proposed guidelines for an international standard
  2. CDWA. Categories for the description of Works of Art (Getty institution))
  3. CIDOC Guidelines for Museum Object Information : The Information Groups and Categories
  4. NARCISSE. Systeme documentaire des peintures et enluminures (France)
  5. Unified Passport for Museum Object (USSR)
  6. International standard “ISO-10918”
  7. Art Catalogue, SCALA (Italy)
  8. Objets religieux. Methode d’analyse et vocabulaire (Canada - France)
  9. AFRICOM. Manuel de normes. Documentation des collections africaines./ Handbook of Standards. Documenting African Collections
  10. Methode d’interventaire informatique des objets: beax-arts et arts decoratifs (France)

There is an overview of the RIMICMO categories:

- Owner/ Museum

- Typology

- Title

- Object inventory number

- Creator of the work

- Place of creation, place of manufacture

- Materials and techniques

- Dimensions, weight

- Date

- Cultural Period

- Key Words (for Iconography)

- Description

- Notes

 

The text of the document “RIMICMO” should be seen as a guideline and not as an official standard. The following template was used to present contents and use of each information category:

Field:

Kuzmina Elena, linguist of the Computer Imaging Department.

Lev Noll - ICOM member, one of the organisers and a pool member of Russian Association on Documentation and New Information Technologies of ICOM.

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