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Object Collection Information

Motivation for this unit has been the Object Collection Information Group of the International Guidelines for Museum Object Information: The CIDOC Information Categories and other domain expert knowledge about object collection, 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, origin information supports Security, Accountability, Access, and an Historic archive. It can be applied to collections management areas as well as object history and description areas. It supports the documentation of the collection or the discovery of natural science specimens and archaeological and ethnographical objects and can be recorded for all types of collection disciplines. It should include  the following information categories:

  1. Collection place
  2. Collection date
  3. Collector
  4. Collection method
E1 CRM Entity
E2 Temporal Entity
E4 Period
E7 Activity
E10 Transfer of Custody
E18 Physical Thing
E39 Actor
E41 Appellation
E52 Time-Span
E53 Place
E55 Type
E62 String
P1 is identified by
P2 has type
P3 has note
P4 has time-span
P7 took place at
P14 carried out by
P21 had general purpose
P28 custody surrendered by
P29 custody received by
P30 transferred custody of
P49 has former or current keeper
P50 has current keeper
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