IN THIS ISSUE

• Object of the cover
• Editorial
• Chair's Report
• On the National Museums of Kenya and its computerization activities
• The transformation of museums in South Africa
• Documentation in Rwanda
• The ethnic days: documenting dances and rituals at the Village Museum
• The Africom project for the standardization of inventories
• The role of CIDOC within the Africom inventory project
• Standardization and computerization of the inventories of the African museums
• Illicit trafficking: an ugly transaction
• Protecting cultural objects through documentation standards
• Thesaurus project of dutch ethnographical museums

• Archaeological sites WG report
• Ethno WG report
• Iconography WG
• Multimedia WG report
• Data standards WG report
• The museum library and information centres WG report
• CIDOC services WG report
• The situation regarding the restoration works of the ROVA, Antananarivo

• CIDOC annual conference, Nürnberg '97