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Evidence of Provenance and Name Authority Control in GLAM community: Three Competing Concepts?

A three-year project, Production, publishing and maintaining national cataloguing rules: 2014-2016 was initiated in Croatia in 2013. The goal of the project is to produce national cataloguing rules that prescribe conditions for the description and identification of, and access to items in libraries, archives and museums. To ensure that the prescribed rules will be applicable to these three communities, the production of national cataloguing rules has been based around their respective professional conceptual models and standards: FRBR, FRAD, FRBRoo, the joint FRBR-LRM, and ISBD ; ISAAR(CPF), ISAD(G) and ISDF as well as the newly proposed RiC ; and CIDOC(CRM) and the Rules for the content and management of documentation on museum objects. The standards are mapped onto each other in order to determine principles of description, data elements and access points common to all communities, as well as those which will be included as specific to each community. Provenance has been defined as “the history of ownership of a valued object of work of art or literature” (Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary) and it is present as a concept in each of the library, archive and museum communities, although the ways of expressing and using it differs in each community. In archival science the concept of provenance was first articulated in the 19th century and in 1910 was internationally accepted as the central principle around which a fond is arranged and described. It refers to the human or juridical authority responsible for the creation of the fond and has two facets that operate primarily at the collection level: respect des fonds and original order. Beyond its use in information retrieval, provenance in the archival field is used to establish the archival bond and maintain the documentary context of the contents of the archival fond and also to support the presumption of its authenticity. In the library community, provenance is mostly recorded for old and rare books, as well as for manuscripts, early prints, photographs and other forms of “special collections”. It can be assigned at the collection or item-level and primarily describes the previous owner(s), collector(s) or chain-of-custody of the item. The element/access point is recommended, but not mandatory, and is mostly connected with scholarly research such as historical bibliography, the history of reading and using books, and the history of the book market (Pearson). Most of research into provenance in libraries have been focused on the methods and possibilities of tracing or reconstructing previous ownership (Pearson, Lakuš, Shaw, Renhart, Jensen), and the possibilities and modes of recording provenance information in bibliographic records (Katić, Shaw, Wagner, Fabian, Tomić). Provenance information is also of critical importance to the museum community Information on previous owners is recorded in catalogue records, usually at the level of individual museum objects. This presentation will discuss ongoing research as a part of this project to determine the possibilities for recording provenance information in the new Croatian cataloguing rules. It is employing a comparative analysis of FRBR-LRM, RiC and CIDOC-CRM in order to see if the concept of provenance has enough similarities in how it is understood and applied in those three communities to be able to build common rules, or if the communities differ so much that each will have to have its own rules for expressing it.

provenance; GLAM comunity; description standards

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