Vernon Cataloguing
- Featuring some of our clients and few of the artifacts from their collections
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Client
Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery
Campbelltown, NSW, Australia
Description
Fonika Vervoorn-Booth, Self reflection and tools of my trade, 1993
International Standards
Vernon CMS is fully compliant with international standards. Three years were spent researching and developing the system before it was launched on the market. The resulting design is based on the best sources of research in museum data structure and procedures.
The database design is a relational implementation of the Museum Documentation Association (mda) SPECTRUM data standard used by hundreds of museums throughout the world. Its detail and logical structure is compatible with CHIN, AASLH Common Agenda and CIDOC standards.
Procedural standards have traditionally been more diverse and dynamic than data standards and, therefore, less well-defined.
These are now evolving, with the mda SPECTRUM Documentation Standard being widely
recognised as a leading procedural authority. Publications of professional
Registrars' groups in the USA, Europe and Australasia are also defining guidelines
for museum procedures. Vernon CMS draws upon all these sources, and its unique
Procedural Control tool allows these standards to be implemented and updated with
ease.