BAM portal

BAM portal
	We make culture findable.
	Internet platform for libraries , archives and museums
languages	German
On-line	2006-2015
http://www.bam-portal.de

The common portal for libraries, archives and museums ( BAM portal ) led from 2006 to 2015 Information about literature, archival documents and objects from German libraries, archives and museums.

In a joint meeting on June 15, 2015, the consortium partners unanimously recommended that the BAM data be transferred to the German Digital Library (DDB), as the permanent operation of the DDB has established a joint, publicly funded culture portal on a national basis , whereby the central objective of the BAM portal was fulfilled.

On June 30, 2015, the consortium that operated the portal was dissolved and link resolving was discontinued at the end of the year.

history

In the first project phase (May 2001 to April 2002) a prototype realization of the portal was in the foreground. For this purpose, a central meta database was created for the project partners' databases. In order to make the added value of a cross-sector search visible, the portal was initially limited to the topics of hydropower and industrialization, for which all project partners have resources.

In the second phase of the project (May 2002 to April 2003) the central meta database was supplemented by a distributed search for original databases in various institutions. This allowed a great expansion of the integrated database. Another focus of the second project phase was the semantic standardization of the metadata used . For the objective indexing of the data, investigations were carried out on the use of library standard vocabulary and on computer linguistic methods for improving retrieval .

In the third project phase (October 2005 to June 2007) the technical basis of the portal was switched from the distributed search, which had proven to be too slow and error-prone, to a stable data warehouse solution used by other major search engines. In addition to the technical improvement of the portal and the implementation of an operator concept for the long-term safeguarding of the online offer, the main focus was on the integration of further sources.

The BAM portal was financed as a project by the German Research Foundation (DFG) until mid-2007 . Since then it has been operated by the following project partners from the three culture-preserving divisions: the Baden-Württemberg Library Service Center (BSZ), the Baden-Württemberg State Archive (LA-BW), the Digicult Verbund eG, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) and the Technoseum Mannheim.

The database in June 2015 - shortly before the portal was shut down - was almost 70 million data sets from over 50 institutions and associations.

purpose

The portal gave scientific users and interested citizens their first access to the cultural information in libraries, archives and museums. The portal made it much easier to see the results from the three divisions together. The search results in the BAM portal were also linked to the online offers of the institutions involved, so that users were taken directly to more extensive information about the book, archival item or exhibit in the context of the collection or the holdings of the respective institution were.

On June 25, 2012, the BAM portal was included in the kaleidoscope of the diversity of cultural forms of expression of the German UNESCO Commission e. V. recorded.

Content

Libraries

The catalog of the Southwest German Library Association (SWB), the catalog of the Joint Library Association (GBV) and the Opacs of the Berlin State Library , the Central Directory of Digitized Prints (ZVDD) and the libraries of the Berlin State Museums were integrated.

Museums

Several million digital object data from numerous state, municipal and university museums and interdisciplinary institutions and portals were integrated.

technical basics

The searchable metadata on holdings and collections from the participating institutions have been held in a data warehouse solution since 2005 . The portal was based on the free software Lucene and was essentially a search engine . This was linked directly to the specialist information systems, whose metadata it searched. Instead of linking the short hit display with a detailed hit view generated within BAM, the portal linked back to the detailed hit display in the original system (if an online presentation was available there). The BAM portal also integrated other services, for example user services such as a watch list and information about the participating institutions. It was a real portal in the sense of IT that integrated separate applications.

literature

Werner Schweibenz, Jörn Sieglerschmidt: Current developments in culture portals. BAM portal, German digital library and Europeana online publication , PDF 285 kB, 2010
Richard Sietmann: Community of heirs to content digitization in the EU . In: c't, 7, March 19, 2007, pp. 44-45.
Sigrid Schieber: The new BAM portal. EAD as an exchange format in archives . In: Archivar, Vol. 61 (2008), Issue 01 (PDF; 1.5 MB), pp. 41-44, ISSN 0003-9500 .
Frank von Hagel: The gateway to many sources - the BAM portal . In: hist 2006 - History on the Net: Practice, Opportunities, Visions. (edoc) July 2007, ISSN 1612-5940 .

Lectures

BAM-Portal - German Digital Library - Europeana: Lecture by Jörn Sieglerschmidt at the spring conference of state and public image archives in Hamburg, image archive of the cultural authority, April 23, 2009 .
Volšebstvo povsmestno dostupnogo znanija - The magic of ubiquitous knowledge: Lecture in Russian by Jörn Sieglerschmidt at the "Konferencija po bibliotečnomu delu: Novye technologii v sochranenii dokumental'nogo nasledija" [Bibliological conference: New technologies for the preservation of the documented cultural heritage] National Library, 20./21. November 2008 .
KulturGut in the "network"; u. a. using the BAM portal as an example: Frank von Hagel's lecture at the EDV-Tage in Theuern on September 18, 2008 (PDF; 3.3 MB).

Web links

Kaleidoscope of the diversity of cultural forms of expression - the German UNESCO Commission

Individual evidence

↑ Further strengthening for digital access to cultural heritage: BAM Consortium for German Digital Library. (PDF) (No longer available online.) German Digital Library, June 24, 2015, archived from the original on July 6, 2015 ; Retrieved on July 20, 2015 (joint press release of the German Digital Library and the BAM consortium). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[1] Further strengthening for digital access to cultural heritage: BAM Consortium for German Digital Library. (PDF) (No longer available online.) German Digital Library, June 24, 2015, archived from the original on July 6, 2015 ; Retrieved on July 20, 2015 (joint press release of the German Digital Library and the BAM consortium). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2