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Joint Catalogue of the National Holdings of Museums of LATVIA

Joint Catalogue of the National Holdings of Museums of LATVIA. Una Balode, “Joint Catalogue of the National Holdings of Museums” Project Manager Jānis Ziediņš “Joint Catalogue of the National Holdings of Museums” Project IT specialist State Agency “Culture Information Systems”.

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Joint Catalogue of the National Holdings of Museums of LATVIA

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  1. Joint Catalogue of the National Holdings of Museumsof LATVIA Una Balode, “Joint Catalogue of the National Holdings of Museums” Project Manager Jānis Ziediņš “Joint Catalogue of the National Holdings of Museums” Project IT specialist State Agency “Culture Information Systems”

  2. Cultural heritage and memory institutions digitisation policy in in Latvia • State agency“Culture Information Systems”: • operates under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture. • its duty is to preserve and to make more accessible the information and cultural values that are stored by libraries, museums and archives.

  3. Cultural heritage and memory institutions digitisation policy in in Latvia • State agency „Culture Information Systems” implements three very important projects financed by EU Structure Funds and the state budget: • State Integrated Library Information System, • State Archives Unified Information System, • Joint Catalogue of the National Holdings of Museums. • DigitalCultural Map of Latvia

  4. Museums system in Latvia • Laws and regulations: • Law on Museums (2006); • Regulations of Museum Accreditation (2006); • Regulations of National Holding of Museums (2006); • Regulations of State Authority on Museums (2005).

  5. Ministry of Culture Municipalities Other Ministries Museum Council of Latvia State Authority on Museums Latvia Museum Association Municipal Museums 84 State museums(Ministry of Culture) 25 State Museums (Other Ministries) 11 Private Museums (accredited) 7 127Museums Museums system in Latvia

  6. National Holding of Museums • about 5,1 mil. museum objects • growth - 100 000 museum objects per year

  7. National Holding of Museums

  8. Why to create Joint Catalogue? • effective museums information availability for society; • integration of museums potential in education system; • new possibilities for scientific investigations in museums; • effective museum information availability for tourism industry; • modernization of collections management in museums; • improvement of the National Holdings of museum management • museum information preparation for digital publications (CD, DVD catalogues) and virtual expositions; • Promotion of Latvian culture heritage incorporation in Europe and world culture assets.

  9. Joint Catalogue of the National Holding of Museums • Joint Catalogue of the National Holdings of Museums is a computerized information system, the database of which builds the core information of museum objects. • Creation of Joint Catalogue of the National Holdings of Museums is determined by: • Law on Museums; • Regulations of National Holding of Museums

  10. Project “Joint Catalogue of the National Holding of Museums” 1 period • Implemented by State agency “Culture Information Systems” and State Authority on Museums • September, 2005 – November, 2007 • Financedby EU Structure Funds and the state budget: • total: 1 080 755.00 € • ERAF 810 566.00 € (75%) • state budget 270 189.00 € (25%)

  11. Project “Joint Catalogue of the National Holding of Museums” 1 period • Within the project was to do: • create Information system and assemble Joint Catalogue of the National Holding of Museums; • provide computer equipment, scanners, digital cameras and Internet connections to the museums; • train museum employees to work with the computers and software; • give information about Joint Catalogue of the National Holding of Museums to public

  12. JCNHM public web site

  13. JCNHM authorized users web site

  14. Project “Joint Catalogue of the National Holding of Museums” 2 period • Implemented by State agency “Culture Information Systems” and State Authority on Museums • July, 2009 – July, 2012 • Financed by EU Structure Funds and the state budget: • total: 2 845 745.00 € • ERAF 2 418 883.00 € (85%) • state budget 426 862.00 € (15%)

  15. Problems... • there is no unified standard in Latvia for museum object documentation; • there is no unified museum object’ name classifier; • there are differences in museum object information processing in museums.

  16. International standards • CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) • Data Exchange Protocol SRU (http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/) • Metadata or Data Content Standard Dublin Core • Museum Documentation Standard SPECTRUM • Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) • etc.

  17. ALM Portal Joint Catalogue of NHM Library data bases Museums, which use JC NHM Achive databases Museums with own IS In future...

  18. Thank you for attention! Jānis Ziediņš; janis.ziedins@kis.gov.lv Una Balode una.balode@kis.gov.lv

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