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Institution Information

Motivation for this graph has been the InstitutionInformation Group of the International Guidelines for Museum Object Information: The CIDOC Information Categories and other domain expert knowledge about institutions, 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, 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 and should record the following information categories:

  1. Institution name
  2. Institution sub body
  3. Institution address
  4. Institution country
E20 Biological Object
E21 Person
E39 Actor
E40 Legal Body
E41 Appellation
E44 Place Appellation
E45 Address
E51 Contact Point
E53 Place
E74 Group
E77 Persistent Item
E82 Actor Appellation
E90 Symbolic Object
P74 has current or former residence
P76 has contact point
P87 is identified by
P107 has current or former member
P131 is identified by
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