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Ottawa,

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CAD Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers (or ) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. This software is used to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve co ...

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Special operating agency A special operating agency is a designation given to a government organization within a department or agency of the Government of Canada that has some management flexibility, independence, and separate accountability. They function, without legisla ...

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Department of Canadian Heritage The Department of Canadian Heritage, or simply Canadian Heritage (french: Patrimoine canadien), is the department of the Government of Canada that has roles and responsibilities related to initiatives that promote and support "Canadian identity ...

, parent_agency = , child1_agency = , child2_agency = , keydocument1 = , website = , footnotes = , map = , map_width = , map_caption = The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN; french: Réseau canadien d'information sur le patrimoine, label=, RCIP) is a

special operating agency A special operating agency is a designation given to a government organization within a department or agency of the Government of Canada that has some management flexibility, independence, and separate accountability. They function, without legisla ...

within the federal

that provides a networked interface to Canada's

heritage Heritage may refer to: History and society * A heritage asset is a preexisting thing of value today ** Cultural heritage is created by humans ** Natural heritage is not * Heritage language Biology * Heredity, biological inheritance of physica ...

institutions. It is based in Gatineau,

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

, and is administratively merged with the

Canadian Conservation Institute The Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI; ) is a special operating agency of the federal Department of Canadian Heritage that provides research, information, and services regarding the conservation and preservation of cultural artifacts. Materi ...

(CCI), another special operating agency of Canadian Heritage. Along with providing online public access to millions of collections records, CHIN offers

collections management Collections management involves the development, storage, and preservation of cultural property, as well as objects of contemporary culture (including contemporary art, literature, technology, and documents) in museums, libraries, archives and p ...

resources to Canada's museum community; more specifically, it assists museums in documenting,

managing Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activities o ...

, and

sharing Sharing is the joint use of a resource or space. It is also the process of dividing and distributing. In its narrow sense, it refers to joint or alternating use of inherently finite goods, such as a common pasture or a shared residence. Still ...

information about their collections, thereby ensuring the accessibility of such information. CHIN provides bilingual information for all its resources. CHIN has three core areas of activity: # create and maintain an online point of entry to Canadian collections; # carry out research and development on collections documentation tools and standards; and # provide guidance and training to cultural institutions on managing collections information. CHIN was the first national organization to participate in the

Virtual Library museums pages The Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp) formed an early leading directory of online museums around the world. History The VLmp online directory resource was founded by Jonathan Bowen in 1994, originally at the Oxford University Computing Labo ...

(VLmp) online museums directory, later supported by ICOM. Moreover, the agency oversees Artefacts Canada, a national inventory of museum collections that provides access to several million records and images from Canadian museums. It used by national and international heritage professionals—as well as by the public—to research Canadian cultural collections. CHIN also manages the online database for Rowman & Littlefield's ''Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging'', a structured and controlled list of object terms organized in a

classification system Classification is a process related to categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated and understood. Classification is the grouping of related facts into classes. It may also refer to: Business, organizat ...

in order to "provide a basis for indexing and cataloging collections of human-made objects." First published in 1978 (launching online in 2018), it is North America's most extensively used "museum classification and

controlled vocabulary Control may refer to: Basic meanings Economics and business * Control (management), an element of management * Control, an element of management accounting * Comptroller (or controller), a senior financial officer in an organization * Controllin ...

for historical and ethnological collections."

History

The Canadian Heritage Information Network was established in 1972 as Canada's National Inventory Programme, originally to create a

data bank In database management and information architecture, a data bank or databank is a repository of information about one or more subjects, that is, a database which is organized in a way that facilitates local or remote information retrieval and is abl ...

, accessed through a computerized national network, and to help museums construct computerized inventories of their collections.Video - About the Canadian Heritage Information Network
/ref>Sledge, Jane, and Betsy Comstock. 1986. "The Canadian Heritage Information Network." Pp. 7-16 in ''Museum Documentation Systems: Developments and Applications'', edited by R. Light, D. Roberts, and J. Stewart. Butterworth & Co. In the 1990s, CHIN began maintaining a website where the museum community of Canada could find resources to improve the online visibility of their collections. In the 2010s, Rowman & Littlefield agreed to allow CHIN to create an online version to supplement the published version of ''Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging'' 4.0. The site was launched in 2018.

References

External links

Canadian Heritage Information Network

Réseau canadien d'information sur le patrimoine

Artefacts Canada English

Artefacts Canada French
{{Authority control Organizations with year of establishment missing Federal departments and agencies of Canada Heritage organizations Canadian Heritage Information Network Museum organizations Department of Canadian Heritage Organizations based in Ottawa Canadian culture

History

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