Museum Libraries in Germany

Ambassadors for Standardized Data, Building Bridges between Archives, Libraries and Museums

Authors

  • Bettina Gierke Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum
  • Margret Schild Theatermuseum Düsseldorf

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23974/ijol.2024.vol9.2.366

Abstract

This article is going to give an overview of the continuously developing world of standardised data and its use in German cultural institutions. It will provide an introduction into Germany’s federated library system and explain how libraries developed standardised data more quickly than other cultural heritage institutions.

We argue that this head-start in using and creating standardised data means that museum librarians are best suited to support both their institutions and others, which want to implement standardised data. They can also take an ambassadorial role for standardised data produced from the museum environment, because museum librarians have the professional background to ensure the quality of such data.

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Author Biographies

  • Bettina Gierke, Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum

    Bettina Gierke studied Art History and Classical Archaeology at the Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel. Since 2020 she has been the Head of Collections Management, Research and Digitisation at the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum. Bettina’s work focuses on making historical objects and their metadata digitally available to the research community and the wider public. With a strong background in the library world, Bettina aims to connect library and museum perspectives with one another.

  • Margret Schild, Theatermuseum Düsseldorf

    Margret Schild, Diploma in Documentarianship (1986), has been the Head of the Libraries of the Theatre Museum and the Film Museum Düsseldorf since 1993. Since 2005 she has been responsible for the coordination of the collection management within the local network d:kult (Digital Archive of Art and Cultural History Düsseldorf) for both museums. Her work focuses on networking between the different areas (GLAM), different topics (performing arts, film), cataloguing and indexing, the use of metadata and controlled vocabularies, presentation and accessibility.

    Active within many networks: Working Group of Art and Museum Libraries (AKMB), Special Interest Group Documentation (Fachgruppe Dokumentation), Working Group Film (AK Film), Working Group Performing Arts (part of the GND Community), Network of Art and Cultural Archives.

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Published

2024-06-20

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2024): Special Issue on Embedded Libraries and Archives in Museums

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Museum Libraries in Germany: Ambassadors for Standardized Data, Building Bridges between Archives, Libraries and Museums. (2024). International Journal of Librarianship, 9(2), 42-50. https://doi.org/10.23974/ijol.2024.vol9.2.366