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 supports Accountability, Access, and an Historic archive. It may also be significant in proving ownership of the object, for example where reference is made to documents supporting legal title.
Information categories:
Examples:
For a reference to a file held elsewhere:
Reference: 1991.234
Reference
type: conservation file
For a reference to another object:
Reference: 1981.234
Reference type: object
For a
reference to a publication:
Reference: Smith, K., Studies in
Palaeontology, 1978
Reference type: publication
Notes:
Definition:
A number or code for linking the object documentation to any additional documentation about the object or another object in the collection.
Examples:
1983.34
Notes:
Move to beginning of Reference
Definition:
A description of the type of Reference recorded.
Examples:
object
acquisition file
bibliographic
Notes:
Move to beginning of Reference
Move to outline of the Information Groups and Categories or the next section of the Guidelines, Reproduction rights
file: guideref.htm; author: CIDOC; updated June 1995