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Cultural Heritage Standards

Note: This is a highly incomplete list of standards that are relevant to cultural heritage. This list has partially been extracted from the guide Metric Survey for Heritage Documentation. Please extend!

Formal Standards

International Standards

• IS 21127 CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/

Planned European Standards

The following are work items in CEN TC 346 that may in the future result in European standards or other deliverables:

• WI 001 -Terminology
• WI 002 -Guide to the principles of conservation
• WI 003 -Condition report of the artefacts
• WI 004 -Security of artefacts and safety of the public
• WI 005-Diagnosis on buildings surfaces and structures.
• WI 006- Characterisation and classification of paints and paintings.
• WI 007-Characterisation of the state of conservation/preservation of cultural property.
• WI 008-Characterisation of stone and related building materials.

• WI 009-Surface protection for porous inorganic materials – Evaluation of methods and products.

• WI 010-Consolidation products – Evaluation of methods and products.

• WI 011-Cleaning products – Evaluation of methods and products.

• WI 012-Guidelines for archaeological remains conservation procedures when discovered.
• WI 013-Specifications on environmental conditions
• WI 014-Guidelines on the measurement of environmental parameters
• WI 015-Principles of transportation and packaging of artefacts.

National Standards

• British Standard (BS) 565:1972 Glossary of terms relating to timber and woodwork (withdrawn)

• BS 1192-3:1987 Construction Drawing Practice. Recommendations for symbols and other graphic conventions (superseded, withdrawn)

• BS 1192-5:1998 Construction drawing practice. Guide for structuring and exchange of CAD data

Best practice guidelines

• Understanding Historic Buildings. A guide to good recording practice, English Heritage 2006
• The Metric Survey Specifications, English Heritage 2000. ISBN 873592 574

• "Library of Congress HABS HAER: Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines".http://www.cr.nps.gov/local-law/arch_stnds_6.htm

• "Recording Archeological Field Monuments. A descriptive specification". RCHME 1999
• RIBA 2005
• Guidelines from the Getty Institute on Conservation in China (cf. Getty Prospectus, p. 6)

• US Army Field Manual 3-34.331 Topographic Surveying. http://cartome.org/FM3-34/Chapter6.htm

• Presentation of Historic Building Survey in CAD. English Heritage 2000. Product code: XH 20129
• The Survey and Recording of Historic Buildings. Association of Archeological Illustrators and Surveyors. Paper 12 1995.
• Building Archaeology, Manfred Schuller, München: ICOMOS, 2002, (Monuments and Sites: VII) ISBN: 3-87490-677-9

• Measured & Drawn: Techniques and Practice for the Metric Survey of Historic Buildings, S Lunnon ed., English Heritage 2003, ISBN 1 873592 72

• Measured Drawing for Architects, Robert Chitham, Architectural Press 1980, ISBN 085139 32 6
• Informed Conservation: Understanding Historic Buildings and their Landscapes for Conservation, Kate Clark, English Heritage 2001
• Core Data Index to Historic Buildings and Monuments of the Architectural Heritage, Recommmendation R (95) 3, Council of Europe, 1995, Strasbourg

• Documenting the Cultural Heritage, Object ID. http://www.object-id.com/heritage/intro.html

• Archaeology Data Service Guides to Good Practice (UK) http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/goodguides/g2gp.html

• RecorDIM http://extranet.getty.edu/gci/recordim/about.html

• ICOMOS http://www.international.icomos.org/charters/recording_e.htm

• Venice Charter http://www.icomos.org/venice_charter.html

• Burra Charter http://www.icomos.org/australia/burra.html