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BAM – the joint portal for libraries, archives, museums in Germany intends to become a single point of access for cultural content and serves users who do not want to search several different databases at different servers using different search interfaces and vocabularies for access. In addition to combining different information services from different institutions in one point of access, BAM can also serve as a portal for a single institution’s libraries, archives, museums and media centres. BAM also tries to increase the visibility of the digital objects in the collections of the participants by cooperating with Wikipedia Germany and enriching articles with a link to content in BAM.
Table of content:
1. Introduction
2. BAM – A Joint Portal for Libraries, Archives, Museums
3. BAM Local – Uniting Different Branches of an Institution in one Portal
4. Increasing Content Visibility by Collaborating with Wikipedia
5. BAM and its Users
6. Conclusions
Englischsprachiger Artikel vom 03.07.2003
Vorgestellt werden die wichtigsten Dienstleistungen des BSZ für Bibliotheken, Museen und Archive
BSZ-Flyer 2003 Englisch
(2003)
The "Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Wuerttemberg" (BSZ) is a state institution providing service for libraries, museums, and archives. The BSZ operates the Cataloging Union in South Western Germany "Suedwestdeutschen Bibliotheksverbund" (SWB), local systems, the Regional Union Catalog (ZKBW), and the "Digital Library".
This information was written by Hermann Wotke and translated to English by Susanne Schuster.
Short information of the BSZ about BAM
September 2008
The abbreviation BAM (Bibliotheken, Archive or Museen – Libraries, Archives and Museums) stands for joint services on the internet provided by libraries, archives and museums in Germany. The BAM Portal gives scholarly users and other interested parties direct access to published works, archival records, and museum objects. The portal is not only a platform of those institutions, but it is also open to all organisations preserving cultural assets. The aim of BAM is to centralise access to objects of cultural value. A BAM Portal search yields results from German union catalogues, the online finding aids of the German Federal Archives, and the archives of many provinces, the object databases of museums, and museum associations, and the offerings of other organisations engaged in the conservation of cultural treasures. All participants, along with their collections, are introduced on the portal’s website. The results of each query in the BAM Portal are displayed in a short list with links to the original systems. Users have access to the full index description, presented in the context appropriate to each cultural institution. If available, users also get access to digital data sets of museum objects, archival records, and publication information.
Short information in English of the Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Wuerttemberg (BSZ) about its Museum Information System MusIS, access to cultural heritage
February 2008
Science, Research and Art of Baden-Wuerttemberg, the south-western federal state of Germany. Its aim was to provide a technical and documentation infrastructure for the state museums. This involved eleven institutions with about 500 employees and a wide range of cultural and natural history collections of about 15 million items. After having built up this infra-structure, the BSZ was assigned the maintenance and further development of MusIS in 2000. The MusIS-team of the BSZ is an application service provider (ASP) for nine state and municipal museums in Baden-Württemberg and Thüringen so far. It serves as regional centre for museum professionals in matters of technical equipment, museum documentation and standards.
The main focus of the work is:
- to promote computer aided documentation of museum collections,
- to promote online presentation of digitized data on cultural heritage,
- to discuss and determine documentation standards in question,
- to promote national and international metadata and voca-bulary standards among museum professionals
- to build up an internal network, integrating all departments of a museum like documentation, collection management, restoration, educational services, public relations and administration.
The MusIS cooperation group comprises:
- Archäologisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart/ Konstanz (ALMS),
- Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe (BLMK),
- Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg Stuttgart (HGS),
- Landesmuseum Württemberg Stuttgart (LMWS),
- Lindenmuseum Stuttgart (LMS),
- inventory of acquisitions of art objects by the Ministerium für Wissenschaft Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg (MWK),
- Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern,
- Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim (REMM),
- Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (SKK),
- Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe (SMNK),
- Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart (SMNS),
- Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (SGS),
- Städtische Museen Freiburg (SMF),
- Stiftung Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit in Mannheim (LTAM),
- Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein Gotha (SFG).
Since several years it has been observed that information offered by different knowledge producing institutions on the internet is more and more interlinked. This tendency will increase, because the fragmented information offers on the internet make the retrieval of information difficult or even impossible. At the same time the quantity of information offered on the internet grows exponentially in Europe – and elsewhere - due to many digitization projects. Inasfar as funding institutions base the acceptance of projects on the observation of certain documentation standards the knowledge created will be retrievable and will remain so for a long time. Otherwise the retrieval of information will become a matter of chance due to the limits of fragmented, knowledge producing social groups.
Since several years it has been observed that information offered by different knowledge producing institutions on the internet is more and more interlinked. This tendency will increase, because the fragmented information offers on the internet make the retrieval of information difficult as even impossible. At the same time the quantity of information offered on the internet grows exponentially in Europe – and elsewhere - due to many digitization projects. Insofar as funding institutions base the acceptance of projects on the observation of certain documentation standards the knowledge created will be retrievable and will remain so for a longer time. Otherwise the retrieval of information will become a matter of chance due to the limits of fragmented, knowledge producing social groups.
Since several years it has been observed that information offered by different know-ledge producing institutions on the internet is more and more interlinked. This tendency will increase, because the fragmented information offers on the internet make the retrieval of information difficult or even impossible. At the same time the quantity of information offered on the internet grows exponentially in Europe – and elsewhere - due to many digitization projects. Inasfar as funding institutions base the acceptance of projects on the observation of certain documentation standards the knowledge created will be retrievable and will remain so for a long time. Otherwise the retrieval of information will become a matter of chance due to the limits of fragmented, knowledge producing social groups.
BAM, the joint portal for Libraries, Archives and Museums in Germany, considers itself to be a digital memory institution. Currently the portal holds more than 40 million records from a wide range of cultural institutions, some 37 million data sets from six libraries or union catalogs, 2.9 million data sets from eleven archives, 300.000 data sets from twenty museums and 800.000 data sets from other institutions.
These significant differences in numbers of data sets are not only due to the size of the holdings of the participating institutions but also to “cultural differences” between libraries, archives, and museums in creating records and collaborating in union catalogs.
The paper describes those differences from the perspective of the BSZ, the hosting organization of BAM, and a major contributor to BAM, the Foundation Prussian Cultural Heritage (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz), Berlin. The point of view is specific for the situation in Germany and might differ from the situation in other countries. There are certainly other important issues that are not mentioned here as we chose to take a perspective specific for BAM.