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Capturing museum knowledge : a twenty year evolution in digitally recording the Tropenmuseum collection / Marjolein Beumer.
Penn Museum Library Z701.3.C65 B48 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beumer, Marjolein.
- Series:
- Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. Bulletin ; 386.
- Bulletin, 0922-7911 ; 386
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Digital preservation--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Digital preservation.
- Art museums--Collection management--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Art museums.
- Archival materials--Digitization--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Archival materials.
- Library materials--Digitization--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Library materials.
- Archival materials--Conservation and restoration--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Library materials--Conservation and restoration--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Tropenmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands).
- Library materials--Conservation and restoration.
- Archival materials--Conservation and restoration.
- Library materials--Digitization.
- Archival materials--Digitization.
- Art museums--Collection management.
- Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Physical Description:
- 102 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : KIT Publishers, [2008]
- Summary:
- For many institutions, it seems only logical that their collection or operational information is recorded digitally. The possibilities and applications seem endless. Office automation has been introduced in almost all museums in the Netherlands. However, some Dutch museums have not yet formulated an information policy or reserved a separate budget for IT, and IT is still insufficiently incorporated in Dutch museums as part of their policy.
- This publication describes how, over the course of twenty years, the Tropen museum has developed from a completely analogue institution to a museum where digital archiving is central and forms part of all working processes. All the ups and downs of twenty years of computerisation and digital archiving of the Tropenmuseum collections are described here. This publication can be used by heritage institutions as a case study in the field of digital data storage for collections and may possibly offer useful ideas for their own digitisation processes. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Computerisation and digital archiving of a collection 9
- Computerisation versus digital archiving 9
- Points of reference 10
- Target groups 12
- Project coordination 12
- Cultural shift 13
- Step-by-step digital archiving plan 14
- 2 Tropenmuseum 17
- History of the Tropenmuseum 17
- Tropenmuseum 2008 20
- Tropenmuseum collections 21
- Stichting Volkenkundige Collectie Nederland (SVCN) 23
- 3 Tropenmuseum: from analogue to digital 27
- Twenty years of computerisation and digital archiving 27
- Analogue documentation 32
- Information and digital archiving plans 37
- Project coordination 39
- Target groups 42
- Culture switch 43
- 4 Digital archiving projects at the Tropenmuseum 45
- Selection 45
- Location registration 46
- Collection photography 48
- Collection registration 50
- Thesauri 51
- International projects: ObjectID 52
- 5 Knowledge access at the Tropenmuseum 58
- Digital knowledge access 58
- Applications for the general public 61
- Intangible heritage 64
- SenterNovem project: 'Digital Association' 65
- 6 An outsider's perspective / Trilce Navarrette 69
- Digitising knowledge into tangible form 69
- How to optimise profit? 70
- Beyond 'digitising' 73
- Tangible knowledge 77.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 82-84).
- ISBN:
- 9789068327496
- 9068327496
- OCLC:
- 277204121
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