Eldridge Appraisals Inc. follow the Getty ID standards. In 1993, the Getty Museum Information Institute initiated a collaborative project to develop an international documentation standard for the information needed to identify cultural objects. The new standard has been developed in collaboration with police forces, customs agencies, museums, the art trade, appraisers and the insurance industry.
The contents of the standard were identified by a combination of background research, interviews, and, most importantly, by major international questionnaire surveys. In total, over 1,000 responses were received from organizations in 84 countries. The findings of these surveys” published in Protecting Cultural Objects in the Global Information Society” demonstrated that there was close agreement on the information needed to describe objects for purposes of identification.
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