Resources of the Cataloguing and Documentation Commission (CDC)
Introduction to the FIAF CDC Resources
Here you will find documents which have been reviewed, verified or created by the FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission over the years, which may be useful or interesting to the FIAF community. The links are sorted by category: cataloguing resources, documentation resources, preservation resources, and additional resources.
Cataloguing Resources
- FIAF Cataloguing Rules (1991, PDF)
- The FIAF Moving Image Cataloguing Manual (2016, PDF)
- Manual FIAF de Catalogación de Imágenes en Movimiento (in Spanish, 2022, PDF)
- Manuel de catalogage des images animées de la FIAF (in French, 2022, PDF)
- Das FIAF-Handbuch für die Katalogisierung von Filmwerken (in German, 2022, PDF)
- FIAF-ov priruCnik za katalogizaciju pokretnih slika (in Croatian, 2022, PDF)
- Glossary of Filmographic Terms (search engine and full html document)
- Report of the Linked Open Data for Filmarchives Workshop (Berlin, 2019)
- Slideshow of Mats Skarstrand's Linked Open Data presentation, CDC Workshop at the 2019 FIAF Congress in Lausanne
- "Cataloguing Practises in the Age of Linked Open Data: Wikidata and Wikibase for Film Archives", a paper by Adelheid Heftberger and Paul Duchesne for the CDC (June 2020)
- "Digital formats for film-related objects in archives", by Mats Skärstrand, Swedish Film Institute, for the CDC (February 2022)
- Mapping of CEN 15907 to library standards (RDA, ISBD, FIAF-MICM, MARC) by Circe Sanchez for the FIAF CDC (view-only link, January 2023)
Documentation Resources
- Treasures from the Film Archives Database (access restricted to logged-in members of the FIAF Community)
Additional Resources
- The Collection Management System spreadsheet, developed by Ashley Blewer (community-based selection and assessment of collection management systems that support film collections) [Google Doc]
- "Archive Title: Unidentified" - Screening and Identifying Unidentified Material from the Bundesarchiv's Collection (Berlin, 16 November 2019)
- FAQ: Collection Management Systems, by Elżbieta Wysocka (September 2022)
