300px|rightGoran Proot and Joost Depuydt, ''Handleiding STCV.'' Antwerpen, 2002. http://www.vlaamse-erfgoedbibliotheek.be/node/736.
The first edition of the STCV manual was only used internally. The cataloguing rules were thoroughly revised for the second edition (STCV2). The manual is still available because a comparison betwee the two editions can help clarify the interpretation of certain rules.