BSZ-Flyer
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).
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.
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.