Postcards are professionally processed in an archive, library, or museum using standards, policies, and manuals. We want to compare and determine the similarities of individual elements by the different standards for describing postcards. With the help of the ISAD(G) archive standard, the ISBD(NBM) standard for libraries, and the Rules for keeping inventory books of premier cultural heritage for museums, we catalogued a selected postcard. The descriptive elements of the selected postcard were compared and analyzed for similarities and differences. Using the interview method, we obtained an opinion on the used set of elements. We interviewed employees in the archive, library, and museum who deal with the processing and cataloguing of material. Through the interviews, we mainly wanted to find out which standards are used and elements that are important for postcard cataloguing. To form the basis of newly designed guidelines we selected the KAMRA metadata scheme. We described its elements and compared them with those of the standards. We found that the standards of archives, libraries, and museums are different, while the elements used for postcards processing are similar. Through interviews, we found that postcard cataloguing as done now is satisfactory for internal use, however there is a preference for uniform processing. Based on the KAMRA metadata scheme, we combined similarly named elements of used standards. We were careful to differentiate the content of elements. These new elements are systematically presented and build our simple guidelines. This master's thesis aimed to create useful and, above all, simple rules for use in archives, libraries, and museums.
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