Introduction

This guide is intended to establish the cataloguing fields, language, and descriptive terminology for the Blanton Museum of Art in TMS Collections. For collection policy and procedures, please refer to the 2016 Collection Management Policy.

These standards are based on legacy collection entry and efforts to become more compatible with museum industry standards of CCO (Cataloguing Cultural Objects). These standards help to facilitate information retrieval, production of captions and labels, and improve access to collection information.

The efforts to standardize entry are not just for enhancing internal information retrieval, but to make the data more aligned with researching and cataloguing standards as we seek to integrate with partnering collections using library and archival standards.