Lanzi (1998) explains that historically, the physical form of cultural heritage materials
has dictated where those materials reside (libraries, archives or museums), resulting in
the development of documentation standards, guidelines and terminology specifically
for each discipline. She notes that the archival approach emphasises the function and
provenance of materials and describes groups of related materials as opposed to the
cataloguing of individual items practised by libraries. Museums, on the other hand,
gear documentation efforts toward internal users and employ diverse terminology
sources, usually localised.