Closing panel of the conference 'The Art Museum in the Digital Age' in the Belvedere Museum, January 11, 2019 in Vienna

1. THE ART MUSEUM IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Belvedere 21, Vienna – 11/01/2019
ByJohnLewisMarshall
PANEL DISCUSSION
INTRODUCTION RIJKSMUSEUM
Saskia Scheltjens, Head Research Services
@saschel - slideshare.net/saschel

2. +1 mio artworks
+2 mio visitors each year
617 FTE staff
Extensive renovation (2003-2013)
Digitization of the whole collection (2008-2020)
Website, collection portal and digital strategy (2012)
Open data policy + tools (2013)
FACTS & FIGURES

3. THE ART MUSEUM IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Belvedere 21, Vienna – 11/01/2019
DATA
ByJohnLewisMarshall

4. The challenge in an art museum today is
information and data
and the way it is activated
within a network or digital ecosystem
to connect people with art

5. RECENT PROJECTS

6. 1
Research Services
Department

8. NEW Department of
Research Services
Centralisation of
all collection
information ánd data
to support
innovative research
+/- 35 FTE
REORGANISATON (2016-2017)

9. Including new responsibilities of the Research
Services department for
• In house data services
• Extended open data policies
-> Open Access mandate
• Research Data (management)
http://schatkamer.nai.nl/system/pictures/170/original/Rijks_t2299.jpg?1308227959

10. COMPLEX ORGANISATION
Related departments
1. IT systems, IT security
2. Communication & Marketing
digital marketing, website, social
media
4. Collections Management
metadata creation, digitization
5. Curatorial departments
metadata creation,
knowledge production &
- dissemination

11. 2
Research Data
Management

12. NIGHTWATCH RESTORATION (2019-)

13. Data
pro-
duction
Data
use
Data
analysis
Data
archiving
Access
to data
Data
reuse
UKDataArchiveDataLifecyclemodel
RESEARCH DATA LIFECYCLE

14. Data
pro-
duction
Data
use
Data
analysis
Data
archiving
Access
to data
Data
reuse
UKDataArchiveDataLifecyclemodel
RESEARCH DATA LIFECYCLE

15. • RDMP test project (2019)
• Data archiving pilot project re data-driven
restoration of the Nightwatch (2019)
• Selection & implementation of a
research data repository & -policy
• Open Access Mandate

16. 3
Accurator Project

17. COMMIT SealincMedia project (2015-2016)
Research project with the Free University of
Amsterdam & other academic partners
• Accurator – semantic annotation tool
• Tests with LOD data & infrastructure
• Edit-a-thons / public annotation events on
specific topics (‘niche sourcing’)

18. http://accurator.nl
http://accurator.nl/

19. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/vogelen
Photo by Romaine – CC0 1.0 -

20. • Gap between needs & expectations :
Focus on production & stability
vs
Experimental, project-based set-up
• Importance of expectation management,
on both sides
LESSONS LEARNED

21. RECAP

22. The challenge in an art museum today is
information and data
and the way it is activated
within a network or digital ecosystem
to connect people with art

23. Contact information
Let’s talk!
Saskia Scheltjens
Head of Department Research Services
s.scheltjens@rijksmuseum.nl
http://www.slideshare.net/saschel | @saschel
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