Consolidating Openness : Developing Rijksmuseum Research Services
1. SHARING IS CARING Brussels – 20/06/2017
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK IRPA) / PACKED
CONSOLIDATING OPENNESS
Developing Rijksmuseum Research Services
Saskia Scheltjens
Head of Research Services Department
PhotobyRomaine-CC01.0
3. Consolidation … or … Convergence
Consolidation
1 : the unification of two or more corporations by dissolution of
existing ones and creation of a single new corporation
2 : the process by which a new memory is converted into a form
that is stable and long-lasting
Convergence
1 : the act of converging and especially moving toward union or
uniformity
2 : the merging of distinct technologies, industries, or devices
into a unified whole
4. Facts and Figures
Rijksmuseum Collection
National Museum of Art ánd History
of the Netherlands
Physical Collection
Collection of ~1,200,000 objects
Print collection ~700.000 prints
Current artworks on display 8.526
Famous for its collection of Dutch
Masters of the Golden Age
(Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals, …)
http://schatkamer.nai.nl/system/pictures/170/original/Rijks_t2299.jpg?1308227959
5. CHRONOLOGY OF OPENNESS
2007
• Start of new Collection Management department
• Start of Print Room Online, large digitization project
• Registration & digitization of ~ 40.000 images per year
2011
• Opening up of 111.000 images of the collection with
a CC-BY licence & API
6.
7. Lizzy Jongma, former data manager
Photo by Merete Sanderhoff, CC-BY-SA
Hack de Overheid Hackathon 2011, Photo by Breyten Ernsting, CC-BY-SA
8. 2012
• Launch of new website +
collection discovery interface Rijksstudio
-> guiding principles:
o Mobile first
o Tailoring for specific user group (culture snackers)
o Tactile
9. 601.592 art works – 343.017 Rijksstudio’s
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio
10. 2013
• 2013/03/13 Reopening of the Rijksmuseum
• 2013/10/30 Release of (almost) all collection data & high
resolution images with a CC0 licence
2014
• Rijksstudio Awards (annual event to stimulate reuse)
• Intensified co-operation with Europeana (EDM)
• PID service (Handle.Net Registry - HNR)
18. Landschap met vissers en turfstekende boeren in het laagveen, Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt, 1783
http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.356880 - Rijksmuseum CC0 1.0
25. RIJKSMUSEUM RESEARCH LIBRARY
National Art Library of the Netherlands
~450.000 volumes of art books, auction catalogues, periodicals
Non-stop acquisition since 1885
Opened up long before the object collection did
Metadata accessible via open API’s since 2008
Uses an Open Database License (ODbL) and CC0 since 2008 -
Runs open source Koha library software since 2011
Founding member OCLC Art Discovery Group Catalogue 2014
26.
27. Photo by Lieke van Deinsen – CC BY
Photo by Lieke van Deinsen – CC BY
28. RIJKSMUSEUM ART DOCUMENTATION
~1 km of documentary data (vertical files) about art objects
Not yet digitized but very important for curators & researchers
Unknown & largely underused
Complicated re copyright
Increasingly hybrid (digital & print)
29. RIJKSMUSEUM RESEARCH DATA
Heterogeneous (digital) research data
From researchers & curators, technical art researchers,
conservationists, restauration departments …..
Formal data policy & research data management in 2017-2018
Planning for an institutional repository
38. Responsible for all collection data
New ‘Research Services’ department
• Rijksmuseum Research Library
• Collection Information & Documentation
• Collection IT
• Study & Print Room
• Stacks Research Services
39. Start Research Services (June 1, 2016)
• Centralisaton of different departments & new mission
• ~ 30 FTE (information specialists, IT, …) and counting!
Vacancies for a data wrangler & co-ordinator collection IT
• Focus on interdisciplinary data - & information
management
• Support and develop new research services
• Development of an extended open collection data strategy
• Digitization RS collections
• Infrastructural renewal
41. Contact information
Let’s talk!
Saskia Scheltjens
s.scheltjens@rijksmuseum.nl
http://www.slideshare.net/saschel/presentations
@saschel
This presentation only uses images with an open licence