ISO/DIS 16687 Impact assessment for museums
Voted YES with Comments ; on ISO/DIS 16687 Impact assessment for museums
Description:
This document defines and describes methods for measuring and assessing the impact of museums on individuals and on society. The methods described can be used for identifying areas of influence of museums and their services, and for reporting such influence to stakeholders and the general public.
Comments:
The idea of cataloging and even classification needs to be extended in the light of online resources and connecting to actual objects. The definition you have below from the CCO is an excellent beginning.
It might be good to also consider including the ability to add some sort of persistent identifier connection for the collections.
the one for Impact assessment for museums, ISO_DIS_16687 draft did not bring enough attention to accessibility, as this is becoming more important in the digital age. The draft of this one only referred to accessibility twice and are limited to the physical facility.
In A.1. General:
Impact surveys can be combined with satisfaction surveys, i.e. questions as to satisfaction can be added. This can e.g. concern the exhibitions (structure, explanations, ease of understanding), the building (accessibility, traffic connections, attractiveness, relax areas) or the staff (availability, empathy, competence).
& in 3 Terms and definitions
3.2 accessibility
ease of reaching and using a service or facility
[SOURCE: ISO 11620:2023, 3.3]
4.:Core functions of museums
4.3 Cataloguing
The main tasks are:
— to catalogue/describe the collected objects in the inventory documents and in scientific catalogues and databases;
— to make the collections visible and accessible by online catalogues and via the Internet.
The function ‘cataloging’ defined in this draft standard seemed to be limited to description of physical objects, not include conservation and other documentation done by curators in the documentation processes. It also did not cover the cataloging of the visual representations of those objects. reference is Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO) [1]. ASIST would recommend consulting this really widely used best practice guideline
https://community.asist.org/discussion/about-iso-dis-16687-impact-assessment-for-museums-1
Comments provided by Marcia Zeng, Marjories Hlava and Iris Xie