Trilce Navarrete paper "Digital Heritage in the Netherlands: Notes on a Survey

Digital Heritage in the Netherlands:notes on a survey

production, expenditure and availability survey

Trilce Navarrete Hernández

Museum Computer Network11-14 November 2009 Portland OR

Today:

• Why digital heritage statistics• Dutch experienceo Heritage Sectoro Museums

MCN 2009 - Digital Heritage in the Netherlands

Why

• Limited resources

• 3 decade history

• Need to know ‘meten is weten’

Inform decision making


Dutch experience

Registration is ongoing, 2007 NLD estimates for museum collections:(DEN 2008, NMV 2007, MusIP 2007)

Registered there is a record of the object = 83%

Automated the recorded object is in digital format = 57% Digitized there is a digital image of the object = 37% Documented the object has context information = 34-54%Online information about the object can be found online = 31%


No data on costs

Digital FactsProject goals:

To develop a system that could be implemented for the structural gathering of digital heritage data (production output + expenditure). To gather statistical data that would give policy makers an insight into the currently available digital heritage and the investment that has taken place.

Number of objects + Objects digitized + Digitization expenditure

Initiated by EC Numeric Project Commissioned by Ministry of Education, Cultural Affairs and Science Coordinated by Digital Heritage Foundation DEN

Number of on-line visitors ✗ % collections available on-line/on-site ✓MCN 2009 - Digital Heritage in the

Netherlands

Digital Facts

Museums = 41 / 775 (science, art and history incl. ethnography, other)Libraries = 21 / 699 (National, public, special, scientific)Archives = 38 / 329AV = 2 / 3 Combined institutions = 11 (research centers)Monuments and archaeological sites = 0 / 50,700,000

Total Digital Facts responses = 128


5 sectors

Digital Facts

Production

23% is digitized41% must be digitized36% does not have

to be digitized


Digital Facts

Production

Expenditure (in euros)


Expenditure: average $ 158,686 USD

Digital Facts

Costs areas


Dutch experience

There is no homogenous concept for digitization

Registration + Image + Context (documentation + stories/links)

Production process involves different people / institutions

Sector differences are based on object characteristicsLibraries: labor = 70% expenditure ($74,151 per staff), highest

collaborationArchives: labor = 70% expenditure ($36,062 per staff), 72% structural

funds, highest expenditure Museums: labor = 90% expenditure ($82,832 per staff), 81% production

in-houseOutsourcing: painting 80x newspapers / OCR books 9x other OCR

Missing culture of accountabilityNeed for comparable data measures


Museums


Museums


Expenditure: average € 792,918

Dutch experience

Production, expenditure and access: The Digital Facts survey to museums

• More than half of collections (ca. 30 million objects) still needs to be digitized

• Digitization is more than a picture on-line. Goal = increase findabilityRegistration + Image + Context (documentation + stories/links)

• 9 museums could not report total institutional budget• 26 museums reported allocated budget = 5% for digital activities• AV reported spending over 3 million = 15% of total budget• 7% of FTE’s allocated towards digital activities (AV 11%, AEH 9%, other

3%)

• Digital activities not integrated as core activity, only 19 museums reported having an information planMCN 2009 - Digital Heritage in the

Netherlands

Dutch experience

Production, expenditure and access: The Digital Facts survey to museums

• No data / no method to isolate contextual information (wanted?)

• Data from Digital Facts is first indication, expenditure data still scarce

• Up to 3 decade history. Continuous investment required to benefit from past efforts

• Need for method to link production expenditure to benefits of access (follow-up More Digital Facts project)

• Informed decision making requires data on expenditure, production and access


Dutch experience

Data gathering strategies:

Self-registration

Increase transparency Support structural accountability

at national levelProtect past investment with

sustainable future financing


Towards Universal Access to Heritage Knowledge …

Thank you … !

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