2005 Welcome Page

Welcome to CIDOC on the Web

Welcome to CIDOC's home page on the World Wide Web. CIDOC is the international focus for the documentation interests of museums and related organizations. It has over 750 members in 60 countries.

For information about the work of the Committee, see the Web pages outlined below or contact:

CIDOC Chair: Christian-Emil Ore, Norway.
CIDOC Secretary: Monika Hagedorn-Saupe, Institut fuer Museumskunde, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, In der Halde 1, D-14195 Berlin, Germany. Tel: +49 30 8301 460, Fax: +49 30 8301 504

The Committee is one of 25 component international committees of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). Information about all the international committees and how to join ICOM is given on the main ICOM Web pages.

Next CIDOC meeting
Wider perspective - broader base.

The next CIDOC meeting will take place on 10th - 14th September 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Details will be given on the conference Web site.

CIDOC Web resources

The CIDOC Web resources include three groups of pages:

Introduction to CIDOC
Museum information standards
Museum resources on the Internet relevant to documentation specialists

Introduction to CIDOC

CIDOC membership
CIDOC Board
CIDOC Rules
CIDOC AGM minutes from the meeting in 2000 are available here in .rtf format
CIDOC Internet services
- Email discussion lists
CIDOC Conferences:
- 1996, Nairobi, Kenya
- 1997, Nuremberg, Germany
- 1998, Melbourne, Australia
- 1999, London, U.K.
- 2000, Ottawa, Canada
- 2001, Barcelona, Spain
- 2002, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- 2003, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 2004, Seoul, Korea
- 2005, Zagreb, Croatia
- African Internet resources relevant to museums (prepared for the 1996 conference in Nairobi).
  - African museums and related organisations on the Internet
  - Non-African museums with African collections or an African focus on the Internet
  - African subject information relevant to museums on the Internet
  - African programmes of international organisations on the Internet
  - General African Internet resources relevant to museums
CIDOC Working Groups
CIDOC Newsletter
- CIDOC Newsletter: 1995 edition [Not currently accessible]
- CIDOC Newsletter: 1996 edition
- CIDOC Newsletter: 1997 edition. Published in paper form.
- CIDOC Newsletter: 1998 edition
- CIDOC Newsletter: 2000 edition. Published in paper form.
CIDOC publications
The museum information profession and CIDOC

Museum information standards

This link leads to an updated version of the list of standards resources on the CIDOC Web site, previously shown here.

The CIDOC Documentation Standards Group has prepared a Statement of principles of museum documentation. The current draft is available at http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/cidoc-members/Public/principles1.pdf. This site is restriced to CIDOC members, who should contact the CIDOC Secretary for an invitation to register (free) as a SmartGroups user in order to read this file.

Museum resources on the Internet relevant to documentation specialists

Sources of information: museums and the Internet
Sources of information: guides to the Internet
Guides to museums on the Internet
Guides to museum staff on the Internet
Bibliographies, catalogues and other resources for museum professionals
Discussion lists and newsgroups for museum professionals