Object Association Information

Motivation for this unit has been the Object Association Information Group of the International Guidelines for Museum Object Information: The CIDOC Information Categories and other domain expert knowledge, as well as interpretation of characteristic database schema elements from relevant collection management systems.

According to the International Guidelines for Museum Object Information: The CIDOC Information Categories, object association information supports Access and an Historic archive. It can be recorded for all types of collection disciplines and should include the following information categories:

1. Associated place
2. Associated date
3. Associated group/person name
4. Association type
5. Original function