DigitaltMuseum
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| founding | 2009 |
| Duration | 1,000,000 images |
| Library type | directory |
| place | Oslo |
| Website | www.digitaltmuseum.no |
The DigitaltMuseum is a public database in Norway with collections from national art and cultural history and museums. The facility was founded in 2009 after a one-year internal trial period. The database was developed and operated by KulturIT ANS , owned by Maihaugen , and the Norsk Folkemuseum . The development is funded by Norsk kulturråd (previously ABM-utvikling ). A digital museum of this kind has also been established for Swedish museums. The aim of the museum is a free digital collection of the museum for the general public and all interested parties, regardless of time and place.
Since September 1st, 2012 you can use the search ( søke ) to search for around 1 million objects from over 90 museums. The material includes around 675,000 photos, 275,000 objects, 16,000 works of art, 2,500 design objects, 1,650 architectural drawings and models and 180 buildings. In the longer term, it will also be expanded to include collections of film, video and sound recordings.
Public directories
The collection of the newly created digital museum was built to provide broad documentation and a basis for research into Norwegian cultural heritage. Usually only a small part of these collections can be presented in exhibitions in Norwegian museums and other similar institutions due to space limitations. The digital museum sees itself as a means and measure to remedy the situation in order to provide and present the public with a broad spectrum and limited open access to the collections. This does not apply to materials or information or entries that are protected in the interests of individual privacy.
The pages of the DigitaltMuseum are always most frequented on Sundays.
Cooperations
In principle, the museum directories are intended for the museum's own staff. In order to make the directories more interesting for laypeople and scholars alike, Norsk kulturråd and KulturIT, in cooperation with other Norwegian museums, have started a project to connect the search in the DigitaltMuseum to the various other sources of information online. Furthermore, a cooperation with the Norwegian-language Wikipedia has been set up in the language versions of Wikipedia on Bokmål / Riksmål ( Norwegian Norsk Wikipedia på bokmål og riksmål ). At the same time, the links from a digital object to a corresponding article are primarily set to Wikipedia. The Norsk Folkemuseum is currently missing about 1550 references, for which there is no corresponding information on the catalog files that can be used. Freelance workers from Wikipedia can ultimately contribute this missing information and expertise at this point. After verification, new Norwegian Wikipedia articles are linked to the individual objects or image files (on people, technology, art objects, culture, etc.) in the digital museum.
Opening of the image file and photo rights
Most of the photographic material is subject to copyright law due to national or international regulations. For further use of these materials by the Digital Museum as well as for further re-use, the respective approval of the respective museums and the other rights holders must be mutually available. However, in order to encourage greater use and publication of the museum's digital collections, the Norwegian museums, if they own the copyright themselves or as far as is legally possible in another form, try to clearly display the image files and photos as public domain and other free to mark open licenses. The Norsk Folkemuseum and the Oslo Museum are pioneers in this regard. September 1, 2012, the DigitaltMuseum contained about 70,000 photographs with a public domain into the public domain and more than 100,000 photographs were under the free license as Creative Commons (CC-Attribution-ShareAlike).
