This page is part of the International Guidelines for Museum Object Information: The CIDOC Information Categories: a description of the Information Categories that can be used when developing records about the objects in museum collections. For an outline of the Information Groups and Categories in the Guidelines, turn to the introductory list.
Purpose:
Origin information supports Security, Accountability, Access, and an Historic archive. It can be applied to collections management areas as well as object history and description areas. It supports the documentation of the collection or the discovery of natural science specimens and archaeological and ethnographical objects and can be recorded for all types of collection disciplines.
Information categories:
Collection place
Collection date
Collector
Collection method
Examples:
Collection place: Nebraska
Collection
date: 1992-03-01
Collector: Smith, C.S.
Collection method:
excavation
Notes:
Alternate names:
Excavation place
Definition:
The name of a place associated with the excavation or collection of the object or specimen.
Examples:
Karystos/Evia/Greece/Europe
Spurn
Point/North Humberside/England/Europe
Notes:
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Definition:
The date or date range associated with the excavation or collection of the objector specimen.
Examples:
c.1883
1956-01-21
Notes:
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Alternate names:
Excavator
Definition:
The person, group, or organization associated with the excavation or collection of an object or specimen.
Examples:
Iroquois
Heals Ltd
Jones, I
Notes:
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Definition:
The means by which an object or specimen was collected.
Examples:
excavated
found
trapped
Notes:
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Move to outline of the Information Groups and Categories or the next section of the Guidelines, Object entry
file: guidecol.htm; author: CIDOC; updated June 1995