Applying of Object ID Stander on the Carpets Collection at the Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo

• Authors: AHMED Mohamed
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This research is the first archaeological study that applies standard of Object ID as a principle of museum collection management, that will be on Islamic carpets collection at the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo as a case study. This paper is a practical field study, which includes in its aspects field training, workshops, lectures, and automatic and manual examination of carpets as a case study, according to the organizational work and the principles available and followed by the museum.

Keywords

EN

Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo; Musem’s Carpet Collections; Registration; Object ID Stander

• Publisher: Uniwersytet w Siedlcach
• Journal: Historia i Świat
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 13
• Pages: 301–324

Contributors

author

AHMED Mohamed

• Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

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Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.34739/his.2024.13.18