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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.
The paper describes the services of MusIS, the South-Western German Museum Network, for the curation of digital heritage. These services range from an object documentation software and the application of controlled vocabulary to a content management system for presentations on the Web and a joint portal for libraries, archives, and museums (the BAM Portal). The BAM Portal offers the possibility to connect selected content to the German Wikipedia and to improve the access to this content via this online encyclopaedia.
Many museums and other cultural institutions offer online exhibitions on a regular basis; in addition to this hands-on experience there is a considerable amount of research literature describing the venture of creating exhibitions in the digital world of the Internet. Nevertheless, a handbook, guidelines or evaluation tools are still missing. Instead, there exist some popular rules of thumb, often considered to be tricks of the trade, which will not result in successful online exhibitions but in really bad user experiences for virtual visitors.
This article describes the major pitfalls that should be avoided in creating online exhibitions. It is based on a review of the research literature covering a wide range of publications and studies in the museum field.
1 Introduction
2 Some popular rules of thumb for creating online exhibitions
3 Why these rules of thumb do not work out
4 Conclusions
5 References
This paper is a revised and extended version of the German language paper "Wie gestaltet man in bester Absicht eine schlechte Online-Ausstellung? Hinweise aus der Forschungsliteratur" published in the journal: Museumskunde, Bd. 76, 1/2011. 90-99.
Many museums and other cultural institutions offer online exhibitions on a regular basis and there is even a considerable amount of research literature describing the venture of creating exhibitions in the digital world of the Internet. Nevertheless, there are some popular rules of thumb which will result in really bad online-exhibitions.
The presentation describes the major pitfalls that should be avoided in creating online exhibitions. It is based on a literature review containing a wide range of studies and projects in the museum field. Outline Research on online exhibitions Some rules of thumb for creating online exhibitions Why these rules of thumb do not work Conclusions.
(19 slides)
How to keep the bugs out
(2018)
As a community we have established a multi-step development process that requires a lot of testing, both human and automated, for patches to make their way into Koha. This can look overly complicated and time consuming from the outside, but makes a lot of sense if you take a closer look. This presentation will explain how the process works, the purpose of the various steps, what testers and QA are looking out for and how it comes all together in the release of a new Koha version.
Introduction:
Knowledge organization got its name in the context of enhancing the processing of information throughout an institution. In a networked environment knowledge organization should provide for the optimal allocation of information resources to the right person(s), at the right time(s) and places(s), in an expectable and understand-able format. In the past knowledge organization was occupied with the classical topics of controlled vocabularies: classifications, thesauri, their theory, development, and usage. The topics have not changed dramatically, but the growing impact of the internet has shifted the focus somewhat to such topics as metadata standards, ontologies, semantic web etc. The politics and ethics of knowledge acquisition and distribution was and is a main topic, too. Here knowledge organization shows strong ties to the social sciences. The expanding space of internet services has brought together the different language communities, but in most of the cases by neglecting the vernacular language of the internet user. English is most common and seldom perfectly spoken or understood by non-native speakers: so there are modern variants (beside American English e. g. continental English) and dialects (e. g. conference pidgin). Automatic translation produces funny results normally; it works only in very specific environments with a basic vocabulary of around 5 words (e. g. most sciences and applied sciences). So there is a strong need of processing information on multilingual platforms for the cultural heritage (ch) domain. There are many endeavors to meet these needs, but none is convincing until now. Therefore several possible solutions will be discussed below.
Part 1: Community
- What is BSZ?
- BSZ
- Koha Installations
- History
- HLT
- Koha - the name
- International Community
- Communication
Part 2: Development
- Release Cycle
- Release Team
- Development Workflow
- Development
- Releases
- Highlights
- Release
- In progress
- Development
- Tools
- Ways to help out
- How to get code into Koha
- Links
After moving to Germany nearly two years ago, I
discovered that the German library landscape, which is based on centralised
union catalogues, was quite different to what I was used to in the UK.
This presentation will look at the setup of the union catalogues
(Verbundsystem), introduce how libraries in Germany use centralised
cataloguing to manage their data and explore what that means for libraries
working with Koha.