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ORIGIN-MUNICIPALITY - Humanities

Field label
ORIGIN-MUNICIPALITY
Field mnemonic
ORMU
Field name
  • Originating City/Town/Municipality
  • Municipalité d'origine
Field definition
This field indicates the name of the municipality, regional municipality, town or city where the object originated.
Heading
ORIGIN/USE FIELDS
Comments
NOTE: This field has NOT been updated as part of the May 2010 Data Dictionary update. Priority for the Data Dictionary update was given to those fields that are required or strongly recommended for Artefacts Canada contribution. The Entry Rules for this field will be updated at a later date. This field was added to Artefacts Canada in 2009 as a result of a recommendation by the CHIN Standards Working Groups.
Entry rules
Enter the name in full. Attributed data should be followed by space "?". A semicolon and a space should separate multiple entries.
Cataloguers rules
See also, Origin-County (ORCY) and Origin-Municipality Number (MUN).
Data type
alpha-numeric string
Examples
  • Ottawa-Carleton
  • Hull
  • Renfrew
  • Halifax ?
  • Montréal
  • Rimouski ?
  • Ottawa-Carleton
  • Hull
Discipline
  • Multidiscipline
Source
  • Ethnology Task Force
Field label (French)
MUNICIPALITE D'ORIGINE
Field mnemonic (French)
MUOR

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