Friday, January 17, 2020

Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging - Nomenclature pour le catalogage des objets de musée

Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging - Nomenclature pour le catalogage des objets de musée
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The Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging website is the most up-to-date version of the Nomenclature standard.
 Since it was first published in 1978, and throughout all the iterations since, Nomenclature has been improved and expanded by inviting input from the museum community it serves. The standard has been published in paper format as follows:
  • Nomenclature created by Robert G. Chenhall in 1978
  • Revised Nomenclature in 1988
  • Nomenclature 3.0 in 2010
  • Nomenclature 4.0 in 2015
The Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging website (launched in 2018) is a collaborative project which includes:
  • all of Nomenclature 4.0;
  • harmonized data and images from the Parks Canada Descriptive and Visual Dictionary of Objects (This includes French equivalents to Nomenclature terms, illustrations, bibliographic data and more. Parks Canada and the American Association for State and Local History [AASLH] agreed to harmonize their two standards in order to promote standardized cataloging practices throughout both countries. Nomenclature replaces the online version of the Parks Canada Descriptive and Visual Dictionary of Objects);
  • French equivalents for all of Nomenclature, including categories, classes, sub-classes (and definitions of each) and terms; and
  • Canadian spelling for some English terms, as alternatives to the U.S. spelling.
Nomenclature continues to be developed and maintained by the Nomenclature Task Force, with updates being performed directly within the system. Nomenclature is a living standard that will evolve to meet the needs of its users.
Individual or institutional users are able to propose additions or changes, using the term submission forms found on the Nomenclature Community website. The Nomenclature Task Force also welcomes groups of subject experts within particular disciplines to work together with the Task Force to develop or improve Nomenclature.

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