CHIN Guide to Museum Standards

Table of contents

Introduction

Core standards for Canadian museums

Metadata (data structure standards)

(to define the categories of data that make up a record)

Vocabulary (data value standards)

(to govern the words or terms that can be used in a record, and how terms are related)

Cataloguing rules (data content standards)

(to determine the order, syntax and format for entering data values in a record)

Interchange (data format standards)

(to define the machine-readable metadata standards that facilitate information exchange)

Procedural standards

(to govern collections management procedures within the museum)