The International Council of Museums (ICOM) is an international organization of museums and museum professionals which is committed to the conservation, continuation and communication to society of the world's natural and cultural heritage, present and future, tangible and intangible. Created in 1946, ICOM is a non-governmental organization maintaining formal relations with and having a consultative status with UNESCO. As a non-profit organization, ICOM is financed primarily by membership fees and supported by various governmental and other bodies. It carries out part of UNESCO's programme for museums. Based in Paris, France, the ICOM Headquarters houses both the ICOM Secretariat and the UNESCO-ICOM Museum Information Centre. ICOM provides the policy basis for the operation of the .museum ("dot-museum") top-level domain. The Louvre Museum in Paris, one of the largest and most famous museums in the world. ... Cultural heritage (national heritage or just heritage) is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations. ... The term non-governmental organization (NGO) is used in a variety of ways all over the world and, depending on the context in which it is used, can refer to many different types of organizations. ... UNESCO logo UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ... A nonprofit organization (abbreviated NPO, or non-profit or not-for-profit) is an organization whose primary objective is to support some issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Region ÃŽle-de-France Department Paris (75) Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Mayor Bertrand Delanoë  (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land area¹ 86. ... .museum is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) used exclusively by museums, museum associations, and individual members of the museum profession, as these groups are defined by the International Council of Museums (ICOM). ...

ICOM is comprised of international committees that focus on certain types of museums (e.g. history museums, military museums, ethnographic museums, art museums) and national committees that represent all the member nations. The international committees meet annually, as does the executive committee, while there is a full general conference of ICOM every three years. The first meeting was held in Paris in 1948. The most recent conference was held in Seoul in 2004, the first meeting in Asia. The next meeting will be held in Vienna in 2007. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Seoul (Sŏul[1] 서울)   is the capital and largest city of South Korea (Republic of Korea). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ... Inhabitants according to official census figures: 1800 to 2005 Vienna in 1858 Vienna (German: Wien ) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... 2007 (MMVII) will be a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Committee for Conservation of the International Council of Museums (ICOM-CC)

ICOM-CC is the largest of the International Committees of ICOM with over 1500 members worldwide from every branch of the museum and conservation profession. [1]

ICOM-CC aims to promote the conservation, investigation and analysis of culturally and historically significant works and to further the goals of the conservation profession.

ICOM-CC is built up of specialist Working Groups (See Specialities within the field under Art conservation), which actively communicate with their members through newsletters, meetings and at the Triennial Congress. Conservation is the profession devoted to the preservation of cultural property for the future. ...

The Triennial Congress brings the membership of ICOM-CC together to report and to review current research. Over 1000 papers have been published in the peer reviewed Congress Pre-prints in the past twenty years.

Committee on Documentation of the International Council of Museums

CIDOC focuses on the documentation requirements and standards of museums, archives, and similar organizations. It has over 750 members in 60 countries.

CIDOC has defined a Conceptual Reference Model (also known as the CIDOC CRM), which provides a formal and extensible ontology for cultural heritage information. It is currently an ISO International Standard (ISO 21127). The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model provides the extensible ontology for concepts and information in cultural heritage documentation. ... In philosophy, ontology (from the Greek , genitive : of being (part. ... ISO has many meanings: Iso is the stem of the Latin transliteration of the Greek word ίσος (ísos, meaning equal). The iso- prefix in English derives from this and means equality or similarity. ...

External links

• The ICOM website
• Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp)
• CIDOC website
• CIDOC CRM website
• ICOM-CC website
• ICOM-CC Newsletter