Making space for diverse ways of knowing in museum collections information systems – Erin Canning (August 2020)

In light of ICOM’s dedication of International Museum Day 2020 to the theme of “Museums and Equality: Diversity and Inclusion”, it is worth looking at how documentation practices, policies, and infrastructures – technical and otherwise – can fit into these broader institutional goals. Committing to diversity, equity, and inclusion involves… Read More

LIDO – Related standards

Go to “LIDO overview” Here is an overview of standards and existing formats LIDO is based upon. Note that the LIDO schema supersedes both the CDWA Lite v1.1 schema and the museumdat v1.0 schema. CDWA Lite is… Read More

Standards and guidelines

What is a standard? The British Standards Institution (BSI), the world’s oldest standards setting organisation, says : “In essence, a standard is an agreed way of doing something. It could be about making a product, managing a process, delivering a service or supplying materials – standards… Read More

2006 Gothenburg

Wider perspective – broader base Gothenburg, Sweden | September 10-14, 2006 The venue for the 2006 CIDOC conference was the Museum of World Culture. The local organisers were Hans Rengman and Anne Murray. There were two pre-conference workshops, “Introduction to the CIDOC-CRM” and “Introduction… Read More

2014 Dresden

Access and Understanding – Networking in the Digital Era Dresden, Germany | September 6-11, 2014 The 2014 annual conference of CIDOC, the International Committee for Documentation of ICOM, took place in Dresden, Germany. Read More

2016 Milan

Museums and Cultural Landscapes   ICOM MILANO PROGRAM   2016 CONFERENCE PAPERS   LIDO working group (Chair: Regine Stein) Gordon McKenna, Implementing LIDO Angela Kailus, The… Read More

Documents before and after a disaster – How to cooperate with others during a fire or other disaster – Erika Hedhammar (October 2018)

Fires and other disasters for museums, archives and libraries happen now and then. Recently, we have heard of the tragic fire at the National museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Does your museum, archive or library have a plan for this? What is… Read More