Working group of art historical image archives and photo libraries
The Working Group on Art History Image Archives and Photo Libraries (AKBF) was founded in 2004 and is an amalgamation of image archives from German research and cultural institutions. Together they are pursuing the goal of developing a strategy for the future of analog picture archives and photo libraries in the digital age. In addition to setting up a comprehensive infrastructure for the digital presentation of photographic image material from art, culture and science, the partners are particularly keen to develop and establish standards and best practice recommendations for archiving , cataloging and digitizing photographic holdings. A special focus is on the development of historical photo material as part of the cultural heritage. The AKBF currently has more than 14 million photographs on the history of art and culture, a large part of which are already accessible via shared online portals on the Internet.
Associated facilities
The AKBF currently owns the Deutsche Fotothek / SLUB Dresden, the photo library of the KHI ( Art History Institute in Florence - Max Planck Institute), the RBA ( Rhenish Image Archive ) and the Museum Department of the City of Cologne, the German Documentation Center for Art History - Image Archive Photo Marburg , the picture archive at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe - Institute of the Leibnitz Society in Marburg, the photo library at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich, the photo library at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute in Rome.
literature
- The working group of art historical picture archives and photo libraries. Profile and strategy. In: Der Archivar, 03/2013, pp. 311–312