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:
This information primarily supports Accountability, and Access. It is essential when exchanging object information with other institutions as it provides a location for the documentation of an object, and in many cases for the object itself.
Information categories:
Institution name
Institution sub body
Institution address
Institution country
Examples:
Institution name: Smithsonian
Institution
Institution sub body: National Museum of American
History
Institution sub-body: Department of Social and Cultural
History
Institution sub-body: Division of Domestic Life
Institution
address: 12th Street at Constitution Avenue, Washington DC 20560
Institution
country: United States of America
Notes:
Alternate names:
Organization name
Body name
Custodian
name
Definition:
The identifying name of the institution legally responsible for the object and its documentation.
Examples:
Smithsonian Institution
Notes:
Move to beginning of Institution
Alternate names:
Organization sub body name
Department name
Sub body name
Custodian sub body name
Definition:
The identifying name of the sub body of an institution legally responsible for the object and its documentation.
Examples:
National Museum of American History
Notes:
Move to beginning of Institution
Alternate names:
Organization address
Definition:
The address of the institution legally responsible for an object and its documentation.
Examples:
South Kensington, London SW7 2RL, United Kingdom
Move to beginning of Institution
Definition:
The country of the institution legally responsible responsible for an object and its documentation.
Examples:
Brazil Norway
Norway
Notes:
Move to beginning of Institution
Move to outline of the Information Groups and Categories or the next section of the Guidelines, Location
file: guideins.htm; author: CIDOC; updated June 1995