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CIW-AW at the UvA A cross sector approach Trilce Navarrete

ICTOP 2012

Bridges and Boundaries: Reframing Professional Education for Museums and Heritage

Reinwardt Academy - September 13th-15th, 2012

CIW-AW 2012 ICTOP Trilce Navarrete 2

CIW at UvA Cultural Information Science

  Current situation   The market for information

  Use of Cultural Heritage content

  The program   CIW program

  Staff and expertise

  Student work   Museums online


Current situation

  The Market of Information   The user expects access to content (for reuse)

  Ideally here and now, for free, personalized

  The source of the information ceases to be relevant

  The information seeker   Information needs depend on context (gender, age,

interests, needs, social role, available technology)


Current situation

Adapted from Mackenzie Owen Market for information

Producers Users


Current situation

  Use of cultural heritage content   It is no longer only on-site

  It is not only found in museums

  It does not have to be perceived as ‘cultural heritage’ but

can be information available for use

  It is not only about ‘images’ and ‘facts’ but also about

stories (context)


Current situation

Google images ‘Vermeer the Milkmaid’

Page 2: Rijksmuseum.nl After wiki, wall paper, art posters…


Current situation

Rijksmuseum app ‘Faces of the Rijksmuseum’ www.rijksmuseum.nl/api

Face recognition software applied to collection (open data projects)


Current situation

Accesssories Web Special Rijksmuseum

Contextualization of objects, linking to Amsterdam city archive collection


Current situation

  Museum workers need information skills   Understand the information value in objects

  Understand information technology

  Strategically position information in the market (e.g. so

that it is found by Google)

  Communicate with multiple constituents (i.e. users, IT,

content producers)

  Collaborate across sectors


The program

Accesssories Web Special Rijksmuseum


The program

  Cultural information science   We train information professionals

  Information ABOUT and FROM heritage institutions

  Students learn to serve as link between constituents

  Content is found in all sectors (museums, libraries, archives,

archeology / monuments)

  Balance theory and practice –for informed decision making

  Broad application (e.g. technology, content, user, sectors,

statistics, law…)


The program

  CIW: BA (3 years) and MA (1 year)   AW: MA (1.5 years)

•  Inleiding studies (6EC) • Informatie en Cultureel Geheugen (6EC) • Onderzoek en schrijfvaardigheden (12EC) • Informatie bronnen (6EC) • Informatiewetenschap concepten (12EC) • Representatie en retrieval (12EC) • Erfgoed 2.0 (6EC)

•  Methoden en Tecnieken (6EC) • Informatietechnologieen en systemen (12EC) • Capita selecta –geschiedenis van digitaliseren (12EC) • Informatie economie (6EC) • Juridische en organisatorische aspecten (12EC) • Keuzevak (12EC)

•  Wetenschapsfilosofie (12EC) • Keuzevan (18EC + 12EC) • Bachelorscriptie + onderzoeksgroep (6EC + 12EC)

•  Information Retrieval (12EC) • Evaluatie informatievoorziening (12EC) • Integratieproject (6EC) • Masterscriptie CIW (18EC) • Keuzevak (12EC)

•  Archiveringsystemen (18EC) • Information Regrieval (12EC) • Duale Periode Archiefwetenschap (30EC) • Scriptie Archiefwetenschap (18EC) • Vergelijkende archiefwetenschap (12EC)

http://studiegids.uva.nl


The program

Robin Boast (head) Archeology – technologies of knowledge

Jaap Kamps Information Retrieval

Frank Huysmans Libraries (public libraries)

Tjeerd Schiphof Lawyer – legal aspects of digitization

Henk Voorbij Performance measurements

Trilce Navarrete Museums – economic aspects of digitization

Charles Jeurgens Archives – appraisal and selection

Theo Thomassen Archives – Business functions

Staff with complementary expertise


Student work

  Group project MA (6 students)   Research questions

  What do museums offer about their collections online?

  How is that conceptualized, organized and presented?

  What results have been achieved by Dutch museums

presenting their collections online?

  What best practice can be identified for the digitization of

museum collections in the Netherlands?


Student work

  Results   Museums depend on the government for subsidies, so

digitization takes place with limited budgets (project base)

missing an economic sustainable plan.

  41% of collections is image based so access to collections

online requires digitization (not only registration).

  Digitization's goal: to increase access to collections. However,

museums lack goals of use (how much use, what type, by who).

  Presentation (incl. participation and search options) could be

improved.


Student work

  Results   On/off-line compete, instead they should collaborate.

  Digitization is still seen as additional and optional activity.

  Digitization should instead be seen to give continuity and

quality to the museum service: the preservation and

presentation of heritage information.


Thank you !

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