This page is part of the International Guidelines for Museum Object Information: The CIDOC Information Categories. Developed by the International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), this is a description of the Information Categories that can be used when developing records about the objects in museum collections. For more information about the Guidelines, turn to the initial page
The successful completion of this project was only possible through the joint efforts of a team of CIDOC members drawn from the Data and Terminology and Data Model Working Groups:
Project Chairs:
Toni Petersen (USA), Data and
Terminology Working Group
Alice Grant (UK), Data Model Working Group
Project Coordinator:
Joséphine Nieuwenhuis (USA), Data and Terminology Working Group
Project Team:
Joseph Busch (USA), Data and Terminology Working Group
Ecaterina Geber (Romania), Data Model Working Group
Cary Karp (Sweden), Data Model Working Group
Jane Kirk (UK), Data and Terminology Working Group
Siegfried Krause (Germany), Data and Terminology Working Group
Alan Seal (UK), Data and Terminology Working Group
Anne Serio (USA), Data Model Working Group
Patricia Young (Canada), Data and Terminology Working Group
Liaisons:
Roger Leech (UK), CIDOC Archaeological Sites
Working Group
Andrew Roberts (UK), ICOM AFRICOM project and CIDOC Chair
Alenka Simikic (Slovenia), CIDOC Ethno Working Group
Robin Thornes, International Project on Documentation Standards for
the Protection of Cultural Objects
A number of interested colleagues reviewed a prior draft of these Guidelines and contributed valuable comments which were incorporated here. They include Joan Bachrach, Anne Claudel, Claire Constans, Christer Larsson, Dominique Piot-Morin, Gillian Quine, Eva Stengard, and Leonard Will.
Toni Petersen, Chair of the Data and Terminology Working Group, is Director of the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), a program of the Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP). In the early stages of the project, Alice Grant was Standards Development Manager at the Museum Documentation Association (MDA), with responsibility for developing SPECTRUM: The UK Documentation Standard. She is currently Systems Development Manager at the National Museum of Science & Industry, London. AHIP enabled Joséphine Nieuwenhuis, on the staff of AAT, to coordinate the project, and supported a number of additional project costs. We are very grateful to these organizations for their commitment to the project.
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