Open Data from Museum Collections
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SARA Open Data from Museum Collections
Transcript of Open Data from Museum Collections
SARA
Open Data from Museum Collections
Overview
• The assignment
• Time plan
•Organization og cooperation
• Requirements
• Conceptual model
• Presentation of Adlib Xplus – Kasper Hovgaard
The assignment
"It has been decided that during the strategy period a joint museum database to be used by all museums must be established. The database will replace the existing independent databases that the larger museums have had. The goal is to make it easier and cheaper to record the collections and to re-use the data for dissemination and research."
Danish Ministry for Culture – Strategy for Digitalization 2012-2015
What is SARA?
• Based on the strategy's recommendations and principles of IT
projects in the state:
• A new registration system for the Danish government- and
government-subsidized museums
• Replaces older central and local registration systems
• A professional tool for recording collections in the form of art
works, objects, reports, photographs, archival documents, etc.
• To help ensure effective and uniform registration practices of high
quality (quality improvement)
• IT infrastructure
The overall goals
• The new IT infrastructure must ensure
• A national overview of art and cultural history in the
Danish museums
• Support of knowledge sharing among museums
• Re-use of data for dissemination and research
• Facilitate reporting to the "Europeana"
• Ease of Access
Illustration: Europeana
Time plan
Phases according to the State IT-project model (DK)
1) Idea
2) Analysis
3) Acquisition
3.1) Specification
3.2) Tender
4) Realisation
5) Operation
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
NOW = Migration of data
Project organization Cooperation with Axiell ALM
Contract signed with Axiel ALM From left: • Joel Sommerfeldt, Axiell (CEO) • Poul Bache, Kulturstyrelsen (Director) • Bert Degenhart Drenth, Axiell (CTO) • Morten Lautrup-Larsen, Kulturstyrelsen (Deputy Director)
Co-operation with the museums
Workshop in the conceptual modelling group
Workshop in the lifeline group – requirements specification
Our requirements in headlines (I)
• A joint museum database
• Data Model and Data Conversion
• Information Security and user management
• Open architecture and exhibition of data
• Effective registration of high quality
• Ease of use
• Flexible and configurable
• Managing Authorities
• Activity-based registration
• GIS
Our requirements in headlines(II)
• Overview of the museum collections
• Search
• Reports
• Professionalization of the museums inventory
management
• DAMS (digital storage)
• Inventory (physical storage)
A conceptual model
Based on standards: • Cidoc-CRM • Spectrum • EDM Proof of concept: • All museums must be able to
see themselves in the conceptual model
Concept: Collection object
Post hole
Object
Photograph
Work of art
subject–predicate–object expressions Classes and properties
Follow us
http://www.kulturstyrelsen.dk/institutioner/museer/museernes-arbejdsopgaver/registrering/projekt-sara/
