Publications
Here, we collect publications to help you with your digital archiving practice – making it easy for you to find relevant reports, records, tender dossiers and tech blogs from meemoo itself.
In this report we look back at the XDCAM transfer project, in which we digitally migrated more than 6.000 XDCAM’s or Professional Discs. This project ran from 2021-2022 and was meemoo's tenth digitisation project.
After a decade of research and projects centred around persistent identification, we felt it was high time for a study day. Because what has happened in the field of persistent identification within the heritage sector since 2013? Where does the sector stand today and what are the challenges for the future? On 19 September, we met with numerous partners from archive institutions, libraries and museums to discuss this issue.
This document pertains to the selection of the Flemish Heritage Database, a new centrally administered collection management system with accompanying services. We initiated this tender in 2023.
At meemoo, we believe that content is more valuable when it’s shared, and more and more Flemish organisations and institutions are also recognising the importance of open sharing. But what about the various ethical issues that this brings with it? As a service organisation, we’re providing the necessary support, and we’re not alone – developing sustainable solutions together with an (inter)national network. In recent months, for example, meemoo has been actively involved in the Creative Commons Ethics of Open Sharing working group.This has resulted in a card game that is designed to initiate conversations about ethics within your organisation and sharpen up your critical thinking skills – all in an accessible way.
Even though museums and heritage organisations are currently working hard to digitise their analogue collections, creating digital 3D models of collection items still remains a relatively unexplored area. Fortunately, the GIVE Flemish masterpieces project has given us an opportunity to digitise a large number of sculptures, which are recognised as masterpieces, in 3D. In this tech blog, we look in more detail at a potential working method and practical step-by-step plan – based on our specific experience from this initial project – in which practical feasibility, sustainable archiving and the widest possible (re)usability of the digital copies are paramount.
Public domain collections can be accessed online, making them the ideal place to get started with your open data policy. Every year since 2018, Public Domain Day has been offering the heritage sector a platform to share their achievements, challenges and visions for providing access to collections that are no longer protected by copyright. This year on 15 February, we organised an event together with the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), Wikimedia Belgium and Ghent University Library.
This procedure relates to the software solution and additional services for a metadata infrastructure. We launched this competition procedure with negotiation in May 2022 and awarded the project to Triply B.V., a Dutch company that specialises in linked data and knowledge graphs.
In May 2022, we held an anniversary edition of the Open Cultural Data Bootcamp. For the fifth time in a row, we welcomed a whole host of cultural heritage sector partners – but in person again this time – for five packed days. They returned home afterwards full of new knowledge about open cultural data and how to apply it within their own organisation and sector.
In this report, we look back at SIRDUKE, the project in which damaged lacquer disks were optically digitised, to save the audio recordings. For this project, which ran from November 2020 to October 2021, we worked together with Gecko, VRT and INA.
Lots of collections currently have hardly any descriptive metadata, which limits the findability and searchability of their content and prevents them from being reused. Adding metadata manually is also very time-consuming task, which is why we’ve set up two projects to investigate what possibilities artificial intelligence can offer for automatic metadata creation. This technology needs to be treated with caution, however. In this tech blog, we take a close look at the legal and ethical challenges.
28/4/2022
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Report: SCALA focus day & digital archiving solutions for the cultural heritage sector
The first phase of SCALA, the pilot project on sustainable storage for digital private law archives, is complete. To conclude the project and create a starting point for the next phase, the AIDA network (the nine institutions behind SCALA) organised a focus day on 26 April to share ideas about archiving and preserving born-digital archives and collections. Here is the report.
In this report we look back at the digitisation of quarter-inch audio tapes. The digitisation ran until July 2019 and was part of meemoo's first digitisation project.
At first glance, there is a strict distinction between carriers of analogue and digital audiovisual information. In practice, however, this distinction is not always clear. The word ‘digitisation’ doesn’t always cover the load and is therefore not always used correctly. In this tech blog, we will clarify the terminology by diving into history.
Search on CEST
At projectcest.be you can learn how to use standards in the creation and management of your digital cultural heritage collections, as well as how to make them accessible.
Search on TRACKS
At projecttracks.be you can learn how you as an artist or arts organisation can use tools and guidelines to take care of your archive and collections.