CIDOC

The International Committee on Documentation (International Committee for Documentation, French: Comité international pour la documentation, short CIDOC ) is a committee of the International Association of Museums International Council of Museums ( ICOM).

It has set itself the goal for museums to develop standards for the documentation and adapt to new circumstances. The development process of these standards began in 1978 and required a nearly twenty years of development time to capture all potentially be documented objects as possible. The submitted documentation standard describes a data model for the documentation of museum objects: The CIDOC Information Categories. The first version was published in 1995. In Germany, the model was implemented in the data field catalog for Grundinventarisation the working group documentation of the German Museums Association.

The International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums has also the Conceptual Reference Model ( CIDOC CRM) published, which emerged from the work of the committee internal group for documentation standards. It is an object-oriented reference data model and provides definitions and a formal structure for describing concepts and relationships in the documentation of cultural heritage.

The International Committee for Documentation Committee holds an annual conference with plenary sessions with different articles and reports on the documentation and new initiatives, as well as workshops and working groups on various topics and areas of documentation work. As a rule, visits to each of the organizing museums are held to meet the relevant documentation practice. Every three years, the Committee of Conference of the General Conference held all Committees of ICOM.