Spectrum procedures relevant to provenance
Whether you work in a museum or not, these guidelines from Spectrum: the UK Collections Management Standard can help you set up procedures and systems to record, and retrospectively research, provenance and other key information about cultural property you hold.
Here are the Spectrum procedures relevant to provenance:
Object entry.
Acquisition and accessioning.
Inventory.
Cataloguing.
Object exit.
Loans in (borrowing objects).
Loans out (lending objects).
Deaccessioning and disposal.
Rights management.
Reproduction.
Use of collections.
Collections review.
Audit.