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National Overview 1.8 - Germany

1.8.i International Initiatives
i. Overall Comments:
A regular attendance of about 8 to 11 individuals from Germany at the annual CIDOC meetings has now become quite stable. These individuals come i.e. from the Bavarian National Museum Munich, the Federal Exhibition Hall Bonn, the Germanic National Museum Nrnberg, the Institute for Museum Studies Berlin, the Theatre Museum Dsseldorf, the LMTA Mannheim, from the lecturers of museum studies at 2 German polytechnics. All these individuals are also active in the German Special Interest Group "Museum Documentation" within the DMB (German Museum Association). Besides that, there is participation of German museums in EU projects such as EPOC or EUROPANCESTORS. A more complete listing will follow. A more detailed listing will follow.

Initiative Details
Name:
EPOC - European Posters Collection (EU DG X, Raphael Programme)
Duration (Start/End Date):
1997/1999
URL:
http://freia.dei.unipd.it/poster/pagine/EPOCENGLISH.html
Contact name:
Contact address:
Project coordinator: Dr. Andreas Bienert,

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (SMB/PK),
Referat fr Informationstechnik Stauffenbergstr. 42,
D 10785 Berlin,

Tel.: ++49/30/266-2973,
email: bienert@smb.spk-berlin.de
Partners
  • Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
    (Dr. Jrgen Dring),
    email: mkg@kulturbehoerde.hamburg.de
    website: http://mkg-hamburg.de
  • Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Stiftung Preuischer Kulturbesitz
    (Dr. Anita Khnel),
    Matthikirchplatz 6,
    D 10785 Berlin,
    Tel.: ++49/30/266-2032,
    email: a.neuner@smb.spk-berlin.de
  • Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Wien
    (Marianne Jobst-Rieder),
    Josefsplatz 1,
    A 1015 Wien,
    Tel.: ++43/1/53 41 03 49,
    email: jobst@grill.onb.ac.at
  • Universit degli Studi di Padova (DEI)
    (Prof. Guido M. Cortelazzo),
    Via Gradenigo 6/a,
    I 35131 Padova,
    Tel.: ++39/49/8 27 78 27
    email: corte@dei.unipd.it
  • Universiteit Utrecht, Vakgroep Computer & Letteren (VCL)
    (Prof.Dr. Jrgen van den Berg),
    Achter de Dom 22-24,
    NL 3512 JP Utrecht,
    Tel.: ++31/30/25 36 145,
    email: Jurgen.vandenberg@let.run.nl
Brief description (published aims and objectives):
There are large poster collections in European museums (such as some 90,000 political posters in Hamburg, some 80,000 'artists posters' in Berlin, some 40,000 film posters in Vienna, etc.). These have not yet been systematically documented nor researched. It is the aim of the project to make the collections ystematically available for research and for the general public, i.a. by producing CD-ROMs, a traveling exhibition and a printed scientific catalogue. This also makes the use of the posters possible without endangering the sometimes fragile originals.

Initiative Details
Name:
EUROPANCESTORS
Duration (Start/End Date):
2000/on-going
URL:
[?]
Contact name:
[?]
Contact address:
Institut Royal de sciences naturelles de Belgique,
rue Vautier 29,
B 1000 Bruxelles,

Tel.: ++32/2/627 42 63,
website: http://www.kbinirsnb.be/
Partners
  • Neanderthal Museum,
    Talstr. 300,
    D 40822 Mettmann,
    ++49/2104/97 97 97
    email: museum@neanderthal.de
    website: http://www.neanderthal.de
  • Musée national de la préhistoire des eyzies (FR)
  • The Natural History Museum, London
  • Universit di Torino, Dipartemento di Anatomia, Farmacologia e Medicina
  • Musée national d'histoire et d'art, Luxembourg
  • Nationaal natuurhistorisch museum (NL)
Brief description (published aims and objectives):
The institutions, together with the network 'Hominid Remains', will cooperate in the establishment of a database which comprises:

1) the data about the prehistoric human fossils,
2) the objects and the different materials,
3) the artistic representation (and its history).

Initiative Details
Name:
BioCISE
Duration (Start/End Date):
1997/1999
(as a follow-up to CDEFD 1993-1996)
URL:
http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/BioCISE
Contact name:
Prof. Dr. Walter Berendsohn
Contact address:
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum,
Freie Universitt Berlin,
Königin-Luise-Str. 6-8,
D 14 191 Berlin,

fax ++49/30/84 17 29 55,
TP ++49/30/838 50 143
email: biocise@mail.bgbm.fu-berlin.de
Partners
Members of the Concerted Action:
  • Anastasios Anagnostopoulos The Goulandris Natural History Museum, Athens, Greece
  • Dr. Walter Berendsohn (Project co-ordinator) Free University of Berlin, ZE Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
  • Pedro Fernandes Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, Portugal
  • Gregor Hagedorn Biologische Bundesanstalt fr Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Institut fr Mikrobiologie, Berlin, Germany
  • Dr. J. Jakupovic, Analyticon AG Biotechnologie Pharmazie, Potsdam, Germany
  • [The late] Prof. Dr. Jacques Lebbe Université Paris VI, Laboratoire Organisation & Evolution des Systémes, Paris, France
  • Dr. Wouter Los Institute for Systematics and Population Biology / Zoological Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Prof. Dr. Jos van der Maesen Agricultural University Wageningen, Dept. of Plant Taxonomy, The Netherlands
  • Prof. Dr. Pier Luigi Nimis University of Trieste, Department of Biology, Italy
  • Dr. Richard J. Pankhurst Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Taxonomic Computing, United Kingdom
  • Dr. Louis Réchaussat INSERM, Coordination Internet, Paris, France
  • Dr. Jarmo Saarikko Finnish Forest Research Institute, EMIT-laboratory, Helsinki
  • Dr. Karsten Siems Analyticon AG Biotechnologie Pharmazie, Research Department, Potsdam, Germany
  • Prof. Dr. Benito Valds University of Sevilla, Depto. de Biologia Vegetal y Ecologia, Spain
  • Besher Wattar Compaq Computer, Hoersholm, Denmark
  • Dr. Richard White University of Southampton, Biodiversity & Ecology Research Division, United Kingdom
  • Dr. Linda Olsvig-Whittaker Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority, Science and Management Division, Jerusalem
Brief description (published aims and objectives):
Funded by EU-DG XII, Biotechnology Programme. The main aims of BioCISE:
  • Identify and publish on the Web a catalogue of European collections and collection information systems
  • Use the Web to make European expertise in biodiversity informatics accessible (companies, people, institutes with experience in implementing biological collection information systems)
  • Foment the forming of consortia for funding proposals with the aim of implementing the framework for a Biological Collection Information Service in Europe

1.8.ii National Initiatives
i. Overall Comments:
No complete register exists at present of all initiatives in Germany at national level. Therefore, only a small selection is named in this section. Note that this is well applicable to the informal groups of software users. The example given further down is just one out of several such groups.

Initiative Details
Name:
Deutscher Museumsbund (DMB) / Fachgruppe Dokumentation
Duration (Start/End Date):
1994/on-going
URL:
http://www.museumsbund.de/fgdoku/dmbfgdoku.html
Contact name:
Speaker (2 years term starting 1999) Monika Hagedorn-Saupe, Institute for Museum Studies
Contact address:
Monika Hagedorn-Saupe,
Institute for Museum Studies,
In der Halde 1,
D 14 195 Berlin,

TP ++49/30/83 01 460,
fax ++49/30/83 01 504,
email: m.hagedorn@smb.spk-berlin.de
Partners
[?]
Brief description (published aims and objectives):
The "Special Interest Group Museum Documentation" is the forum for all German museum people who are interested/active in documentation matters in and for museums. It serves as a regular forum for exchange of experience. 4 special Working Groups have been built so far, namely: Standards and Guidelines, Education and Training, Multimedia, Software for museum documentation. The Special Interest Group holds meetings twice a year (May and October) and closely cooperates with the AKMB.

Initiative Details
Name:
Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Kunst- und Museumsbibliotheken (AKMB)
Duration (Start/End Date):
1995/on-going
URL:
http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/ulbd/akmb
Contact name:
President (3 year-term starting 1998) Christiane Schaper
Contact address:
Christiane Schaper,
Historisches Museum der Stadt Frankfurt/Main,
Saalgasse 19,
D 60 311 Frankfurt/Main,

TP ++49/69/212 36 18
fax ++49/69/212 30 702
email: CSch711135@aol.com
Partners
[?]
Brief description (published aims and objectives):
As a transition from the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Kunstbibliotheken (AKB), the AKMB was founded as a Special Interest Group of museum libraries and art libraries, a forum to represent specifically the interests of those libraries directly linked to, or serving, museums and the art field. It does publish the AKMB news (ISSN 0949-8419) 3 times a year, holds meetings twice a year (1 in conjunction with the German libraries' Annual Assembly and 1 in October/Nov.). The Special Interest Group serves as a forum of exchange of experience of those active in the field and closely cooperates with the Deutscher Museumsbund (DMB)/Fachgruppe Dokumentation.

Initiative Details
Name:
Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum fr Kunstgeschichte / Philipps-Universitt Marburg
Duration (Start/End Date):
URL:
http://www.fotomr.uni-marburg.de
Contact name:
Wolffstr.,
D 35 037 Marburg,

TP ++49/6421/28 23600,
fax ++49/6421/28 28 931
email: bildarchiv@fotomr.uni-marburg.de
Contact address:
Partners
Various
Brief description (published aims and objectives):
Recognized voluntarily, at a federal German level as a Centre for documentation in art history. The task of the Centre is the production of union catalogues of pictures relevant for the arts and held in German museums, libraries, archives, or monument registers (Marburger Index, 1976 - ). These were first published as COM, now on CDROM and, recently, on the internet (some 190,000 photos). Since 1978, a standard was developed called MIDAS (Marburger Informations-, Dokumentations- und Inventarisierungssystem) whose latest published version was issued in the Saur Verlag 1994. Parallely, a database software HIDA has been prepared. Work is presently being carried out in the framework of DISKUS (Digitales Informationssystem für Kunst- und Sozialgeschichte), a cooperative network formed, since 1993, together with a number of German museums.

Initiative Details
Name:
Fachverbundkatalog (Integrated subject catalogue)
Duration (Start/End Date):
1997/on-going
URL:
http://www.kubikat.org
Contact name:
Contact address:
Zentralinstitut fr Kunstgeschichte,
Meiserstr. 10,
D 80 333 Mnchen,

TP ++49/89/289 27 581,
fax ++49/89/289 27 607
URL: http://www.zikg.lrz-muenchen.de

Bibliotheca Hertziana (MPI fr Kunstgeschichte),
I 00187 Roma,
Via Gregoriana 28,

TP ++39/06/69993-1,
fax ++39/06/69 993-333
Partners
  • Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
  • Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte München
  • Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte) Rom
Brief description (published aims and objectives):
The libraries of the above 3 university-independent research institutes (funded by the German government) have joined in 1997 to form a cooperative online catalogue of their holdings (covering at present the new acquisitions since 1996).

Initiative Details
Name:
German FirstRumos User Group Meetings
Duration (Start/End Date):
annually
URL:
http://www.firstrumos.de
Contact name:
Oliver Rump, M.A.
Contact address:
Frderverein des Freilichtmuseum am Kiekeberg, Am Kiekeberg 1, D 21 224 Rosengarten, TP ++49/40/79 01 76 10 fax ++49/40/79 26 464 email: info@firstrumos.de
Partners
Museums which use FirstRumos software
Brief description (published aims and objectives):
Exchange of experience resulting from implementation and development of FirstRumos

Initiative Details
Name:
Virtueller Katalog Kunstgeschichte (VKK)
Duration (Start/End Date):
Mid1990s/on-going
URL:
http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/vk_kunst.html
Contact name:
Dr. Maria Effinger
Contact address:
email: Effinger@ub.uni-heidelberg.de
Partners
  • Fachverbund (Integrated Subject Catalogue) München - Firenze - Roma
  • University Library Heidelberg, Special collection Arts Science State
  • Dresden (Saxonian Library) Library of the Arts and Exhibition Hall of the FR Germany
Brief description (published aims and objectives):
The aim of this project is to build and maintain an online library catalogue representing the distributed holdings of the partner libraries, for the subject area of arts, museums, exhibitions (and later on restoration). Presently are searchable c151,000 books, 44,000 articles, and some 2,000 journals. 4 further major German art libraries from Köln, Berlin, Nürnberg are foreseen to join this integrated catalogue.

1.8.iii Regional Initiatives
i. Overall Comments:
[None]

Submission Details
i. Submitted by: Monika Hagedorn-Saupe, Axel Ermert
ii. Job title: Deputy Director; Researcher
iii. Organisation: Institute for Museum Studies
iv. E-mail: m.hagedorn@smb.spk-berlin.de; a.ermert@smb.spk-berlin.de
v. Date Submitted: 19/04/2000

Funded by the European Commission - DGX - Raphaël Programme