Memory institution

Memory institution (including memory organization ) is a collective term for institutions the knowledge preserve and convey. This includes in particular libraries , museums and archives .

The term was coined in the context of long-term archiving and making accessible, especially digital information. Despite great differences in place and organizational form as well as in the stored knowledge, the memory institutions face similar problems with regard to technology, financing and copyright . Also from the point of view of the users of digital offers of a memory institution, it is irrelevant where the retrieved information was originally located.

In 2008, the Federal Office of Culture in Switzerland saw the Federal Archives , the National Library and the State Museum among the federal memory institutions . The federal government could not regulate the handling of the digital challenge (“memo policy”) of this and other Swiss memory institutions at the federal level, but it had to take responsibility for enabling them to do so.

See also

• Institutional memory
• GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums)

literature

• Andreas Brandtner: Cultural tradition - digital . In: Caroline Robertson-von Trotha, Robert Hauser (Hrsg.): New heritage: aspects, perspectives and consequences of digital tradition . KIT Scientific Publishers, Karlsruhe 2011, ISBN 978-3-86644-737-0 , pp. 181-200.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Schweibenz, Jörn Sieglerschmidt: Current developments in culture portals: BAM portal, German digital library and Europeana . In: Proceedings of the conference Inventory digital - narrow and wide paths into the data sky of the Museumsverband Baden-Württemberg eV on May 7th and 8th 2010 in the Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart, pp. 1–2.
2. ↑ Federal Office for Culture (ed.): Memopolitics: A policy of the federal government to the memories of Switzerland . Federal Department of the Interior, Bern 2008. (Download from Memopolitics ( Memento des Originals dated January 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice . )