Developing Data Standards

The Data Standards Unit, part of Heritage Data, develops and maintains data standards for use in the heritage sector.  We work closely with FISH, the Forum on Information Standards in Heritage, to produce tools to assist you with recording your information; using these will help with consistency and ease of retrieval, and will also give you an advantage in interoperability and data exchange. 

We work both nationally and internationally, with a very wide variety of partners, and our standards are developed with full consultation throughout the sector and beyond. 

Please click on the links below to access our products:

NMR Thesauri - for controlled terminologies to enhance your recording of heritage data.

FISH - The Forum on Information Standards in Heritage’s home page; visit here for all FISH’s tools, including the FISH Interoperability Toolkit, a suite of tools to enable data exchange, and INSCRIPTION, a list of terminology resources you can use.

MIDAS Heritage - The new edition of the widely used content standard, setting out what information you should record in your dataset.