Core Standards for Canadian Museums

This resource provides information on the standards most commonly used by Canadian museums, and recommended by CHIN, both for collections documentation and management within museums, and for collections records contributed to Canada's national collections database, Artefacts Canada. It includes metadata standards, terminology and classification standards, and data entry rules for both Art/Historical collections, and for Natural Science collections.

It also includes links to Artefacts Canada contribution documentation, as well as standards for development of Virtual Museum of Canada projects. Available in English and French.