A Report on the 25th ICOM （International Council of Museums） General Conference 2019 in Kyoto, Japan:

With Emphasis on the 2019 Annual Meeting of ICOM CIDOC（International Committee for Documentation）

Abstract

  This is a report on the 25th ICOM （International Council of Museums） General Conference 2019 （ICOM 2019） in Kyoto, Japan. The main topics of this report are on the 2019 Annual Meeting of ICOM CIDOC （International Committee for Documentation）, held as a part of ICOM 2019, which include the author’s own invited keynote lecture on the overview of museum documentation in Japan. This report also discusses the issues of conference management of ICOM, compared with those of IFLA （International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions） and ICA （International Council on Archives）.