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Preserving Academic Heritage in Flanders: Challenges and Solutions

Explore the academic heritage in Flanders and the challenges faced in its preservation and digitization. Discover how the Interuniversity Platform for Academic Heritage aims to raise awareness, exchange expertise, and implement long-term strategies for collection management. Learn about the Balans en Perspectief project, its findings, and the future goals to integrate academic heritage preservation into policies at the university and regional level.

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Preserving Academic Heritage in Flanders: Challenges and Solutions

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  1. Einstein and Tasmanian Tigers academic heritage in Flanders and its challenges S. Leenknegt, D. Segers, I. Rotthier, G. Van Paemel, F. Scheelings, T. Noordermeer

  2. Ghent University KU Leuven University of Antwerp Vrije Universiteit Brussel Interuniversity Platform forAcademic Heritage

  3. Interuniversity Platform forAcademic Heritage • Begun in 2007 • Startedwith 4 members (1 of eachuniversity) • SAE as example • Project fundingfromFlemishGovernment

  4. Aims of Platform • Gain an overview of academic heritage (AH) in Flanders • Make university boards aware of the necessity of policies on AH • Design long-term strategies for professional collection management of AH • Gain and exchange expertise • Make AH known to broader audience

  5. Funded project: Balans en Perspectief Phase I (2011 – 2012): • Screening of universities of Leuven, Ghent, Antwerpand Brussels • 100 collectionsdescribed • Estimatedamount over 1.000.000 objects

  6. Academic Heritage in Flanders • Collection management ≠ core business • 54 of 100 collections have inventories • Only14 digital inventories • 3 of 100 collections (partially) digitized • Manycollectionslackany form of policy • Conservationproblems

  7. Report publishedsoon:Balans en Perspectief. Academisch Erfgoed in Vlaanderen

  8. Balans en PerspectiefAims of phase II (2013-2014) • Screen otherinstitutesforhighereducationfor AH • 8 colleges alreadycontacted • 20 new collections ‘discovered’

  9. Aims of phase II • Createstoriesaboutextraordinary / rare / significant objectsandcollections

  10. Aims of phase II • Research on howtocreatean online portal for AH • Database withdigitizedobjects + stories on special objects/collections • Report withresults of research • Public event to present results of project

  11. A futureforacademicheritage • Consolidateresults of the project • Gear collection managementtooneanother • Making inventoriesanddigitization is key

  12. A futureforacademicheritage • Fromproject basis toregular basis • IntegrateinitiativesforAH intopolicy: • at the level of universities • at the level of Flanders

  13. www.academischerfgoed.be http://academischerfgoed.be/in-english

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