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The
editors wish to acknowledge and thank the Council of Europe,
the Getty Information Institute, the Inventaire Général,
the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England
(RCHME), and the Documentation Committee (CIDOC) of the International
Council of Museums (ICOM) for the invaluable institutional
support they have provided in the development of the documentation
standards described here. We are grateful to Daniel Thérond,
who began these documentation and inventory activities within
the Council of Europe and is now, as Director of the European
Foundation for Heritage Skills, responsible for follow-up
and implementation activities on behalf of the Council’s
Cultural Heritage Committee. For their fundamental work in
the conceptualisation and realisation of the concept of core
data, we are also indebted in particular to Simon Grant and
Monique Chatenet.
For their work in the development of the individual standards,
we would like to thank the following:
The group of specialists on architectural heritage
documentation responsible for the Core Data Index to Historic
Buildings and Monuments of the Architectural Heritage, and
in particular Monique Chatenet (France), Simon Grant (UK),
and Olivier Toche (France); for facilitating discussions
and encouraging positive conclusions, Daniel Thérond
(Council of Europe); and for significant procedural contributions,
Isabelle Balsamo (France), John Hume and Roger Mercer (UK),
Jean Vincent (France), and Walter Wulf (Germany).
The Archaeological Sites Working Group, and in particular
Valetta Canouts (USA), Dominique Guillot (France), Henrik
Hansen (Denmark), Roger Leech (UK), Judy Marsh (Canada),
Gillian Quine (UK), Stephen Stead (UK), Irina Oberlander-Tarnoveanu
(Romania).
All those who contributed to the development of Object ID,
and in particular José María Ballester (Council
of Europe), Maria Papageorge Kouroupas (U.S. Information
Agency), Elisabeth des Portes (formerly of ICOM), Lyndel
Prott (UNESCO); for identifying the need for the standard
and initiating the project, Eleanor Fink (Getty Information
Institute); for their work in managing the project, Marilyn
Schmitt and Cynthia Scott (Getty Information Institute);
and for coordinating the contribution of the working group
of conservation specialists, Margaret Mac Lean (Getty Conservation
Institute) and Suzanne Deal Booth (consultant to the Getty
Trust).
For their assistance with the compilation of the sample
records, we thank Paul Pattison and Ann Robey of the Royal
Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, and Jonathan
Betts and Roger Quarm of the National Maritime Museum, London.
We are grateful to the National Maritime Museum, London,
for the provision of photographs of objects in their collection.
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