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PAS 197
Date added 17 December 2009
Last edited 17 December 2009
Full Title
BSI PAS 197: Code of Practice for Cultural Collections Management
Description
PAS 197 documents consensus across the museum, library and archive professions, to inform senior managers how cultural collections are best managed. It covers the provision, implementation and maintenance of a collections management framework including: policies, processes, procedures and supporting standards. It is applicable to all types and sizes of cultural collections.
Standards Developing Organisation
- Collections Trust
- Collections Trust
Rights
No available information
Lifecycle Action
- Whole Lifecycle
Standard Framework
- Digital Archive Standards
Standard Type
- Reference Models and Frameworks
Current Version
- 2009 - BSI PAS 197: Code of Practice for Cultural Collections Management [external]
- Available to purchase from BSI
Further Information
- Wikipedia entry for the Collections Trust [external]
- Collections Link News: Code of Practice for Collections Management [external]
- Press release from the Collections Trust regarding PAS 197 from June 2009
Alternative Current Versions
None.
Previous Versions
None.
Referenced Standards
- Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2)
- Bliss Bibliographic Classification
- BS 10008: Evidential Weight and Legal Admissibility of Electronic Information - Specification
- BS 8723: Structured vocabularies for information retrieval - Guide
- DDC: Dewey Decimal Classification System
- EAD DTD: Encoded Archival Description Document Type Definition
- ISAAR (CPF): International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families
- ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description
- ISBD: International Standard Bibliographic Description
- ISDF: International Standard for Describing Functions
- ISDIAH: International Standard for Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings
- ISO 14721: Space Data and Information Transfer Systems - Open Archival Information Systems - Reference Model
- ISO 15836, Information and Documentation - The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
- ISO 2709: Information and Documentation - Format for Information Interchange
- LCC: Library of Congress Classification
- LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- MARC21: MAchine-Readable Cataloguing 21
- NCA Rules: Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names
- PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata
- UNIMARC