Museum Documentation and Data Standards in the Internet Era

Abstract

This report is based on the special workshop held for the annual conference 2016 of the Japan Society for Archival Science. The purpose of this report is to describe museum documentation standards focusing on interoperability and harmonisation of museum metadata standardisation. In section 1, we examine classification of museum documentation. In section 2, we introduce the existing Documentation Standards, Metadata Schemas, and Management Models. In sections 3 and 4, we deal with how European and American museums have published their collection data using Linked Open Data methodology. Finally, we comment on the prospects for the Japanese museum sector.