Convergence of internet services in the cultural heritage sector The long way to common vocabularies, metadata formats, ontologies

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1 Convergence of internet services in the cultural heritage The long way to common vocabularies, metadata formats, ontologies Frank von Hagel Institut für Museumsforschung (Institute for Museum Research) Jörn Sieglerschmidt Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum (Library Service Centre) CIDOC06

2 BAM - the Common Portal for Libraries, Archives and Museums in Germany Partner 2

3 BAM - Portal Access to cultural heritage in Germany -portal.de Bibliotheken Archive Museen Libraries Archives Museums 3

4 What we want to achieve We want to make the knowledge of the cultural institutions apparent and to make their work more transparent to a greater public. We want to make the knowledge of cultural institutions understandable and to give access to cultural heritage information. We hope that people enjoy the information offered by the portal. We want to offer the knowledge of cultural institutions and cultural heritage for purposes of e-learning, e-scolarship, and e-publishing. We want to offer an incentive for the user to share his the knowledge and to set a stage for his contributions. 4

5 Content Archives: State Archives of Baden-Württemberg with about online finding aids; Bundesarchiv with about 500 online finding aids; online finding aids of the Hessische Staatsarchive Libraries: South Western Union Catalogue with about libraries and 12 Mio. titles; Northern Union Catalogue with about 800 libraries and 22 Mio. titles; Kalliope Network (autographs) with about 1 Mio. Records Museums::Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin); State Museum of Technology and Work Mannheim; State Museum Karlsruhe; State Museum Stuttgart; Historical Museum Leipzig; Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg (Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg); Kunsthalle Karlsruhe; Nuremberg Toy Museum; Museums in Schleswig-Holstein, etc.: about records More or less records until now 5

6 Google like search 6

7 enhancing search functions by using authority files Result without synonyms Result with synonyms 7

8 result list in one column with explorer hierarchy 8

9 Workflow metadata of museums Import and processing of local records linguistic features metadata of libraries metadata of archives indexing machine/ classification Specialized information servers of museums systems Search and central server Data-Warehouse (Lucene) query Presentation of common results Presentation of offline records servers of libraries servers of archives 9

10 Information levels User museum cross-institutional search archive Specialized information systems library Digitized data 10

11 Presentation of items in specialized information systems 11

12 European ALM projects MuseoSuomi - Suomen museot semanttisessa webissä - 12

13 Why we are here: wider perspectives to win partners for the joint development and promotion of standards and authority files (person, place, time, object) on a European level to win partners for testing standards and authority files in different documentation environments to win partners for the broadening of scope of the portal regarding the objects presented to win partners for building up a stage for cultural heritage information in Europe on an item level to win partners for the promotion of cultural diversity in Europe by a portal that can demonstrate such a diversity Who is interested can contact us immediately after this session or later; we are happy about any offer of cooperation. 13

14 Contact Frank von Hagel, MA (Institute for Museum Research ) Dr. Jörn Sieglerschmidt (Library Service Centre) Berlin +49 (0) Konstanz +49 (0) f.v.hagel@smb.spk-berlin.de joern.sieglerschmidt@bsz-bw.de 14