Museum portal

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Museum portals offer bundled and structured information about museums on the Internet .

As a rule, these are web portals , i.e. virtual platforms that bring together and structure information on a specific topic. Only in exceptional cases are there portals according to the understanding / in the sense of computer science, i.e. application systems that integrate separate individual applications, processes or services and, for example, give existing museum databases a common research interface.

Some portals go beyond a description of the institutions and offer the possibility of central research in the collections of various institutions. Such comprehensive museum documentation , however, requires the use of databases and the use of common standards for the recording and digitization of the collection objects.

Museum portals in Germany

National museum portals

Specializations

The Berlin Institute for Museum Research has been operating a database under the name museum-digital since 2009, through which digitized museum exhibits are made available to the public. One of the main goals of this project is to gradually make the digitized exhibits of the participating museums also available on the europeana internet platform .

Comprehensive research options in the collections

The portal "Image Index of Art and Architecture", developed by the Photo Archive Photo Marburg - German Documentation Center for Art History and operated since 2000, offers database-supported access to over 450,000, usually digitally illustrated collection objects from currently 5,910 museums, libraries, archives and private collections in Germany and Europe (As of February 2008) - for example from the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg, the National Gallery in Berlin , the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne or the Austrian National Library in Vienna. It is based on a web-based network database that allows free online research across collections.

The BAM portal (joint portal for libraries, archives and museums) , which is currently under construction, offers further comprehensive access to the museum's assets without thematic restrictions . Objects, books, archive materials and other cultural assets from all over Germany are documented here. These currently include 247,039 museum objects (as of April 25, 2008) from German museums. This makes the BAM portal the second largest database for museum objects in Germany, the database of the German Historical Museum has around 600,000 data records, of which over 550,000 are made available for online research and updated weekly (as of April 2014). Other museums have already made their object databases accessible on the Internet. However, there are still few overarching projects at regional level. The most important here are the DigiCult database with almost 18,000 objects, which allows online research in the collections of Schleswig-Holstein museums (as of April 2008), and the OPAL portal, which makes over 20,000 museum objects from Lower Saxony's museums, libraries and archives accessible (As of July 2007).