Hilversum – DIGIBIRD workshop October 31st, 2016

ACCURATOR Annotations @

Saskia Scheltjens

Head of Research Services department

Credits• Lizzy Jongma (RMA)

• Geertje Jacobs (RMA)

• Henrike Hövelmann (RMA)

• Trineke Kamerling (RMA)

• Lora Aroya (VU)

• Chris Dijkshoorn (VU)

• & all others involved ….

Facts and Figures

Rijksmuseum collection

National Museum of Art ánd HistoryLargest art historical collection online

Physical Collection

Collection of ~1,200,000 objects

Print collection ~700.000 prints

Artworks on display ~8.000 (in flux)

Digital Collection

+ 650,000 object metadata records

572.793 object metadata online

274.718 high res images online

in CC0

Facts and Figures

Research Project (2011 – 2015)

Cooperation with RMA

• Workpackage 6 :

Personalized semantic search

• Workpackage 7 :

User interfaces for cultural

heritage media (UI)

Facts and Figures

Research Project (1-4/2016)

Cooperation with RMA

• Continuation of SEALINKMedia Project (WP6)

• Valorization project

• Targeted audience engagement of images via crowdsourcing (nichesourcing)

Events• October 4th, 2015 – Bird Watching in the Rijksmuseum - annotation event

https://sealincmedia.wordpress.com/activities/birdwatching-rijksmuseum

• February 5th, 2016 - Kick-off meeting DigiBird projecthttps://sealincmedia.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/digibird-kickoff-meeting

• April 23rd, 2016 – Stich by Stich – annotation eventhttps://sealincmedia.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/stitch-by-stitch-annotating-fashion-at-the-rijksmuseum

• October 31th, 2016 - Final workshophttps://sealincmedia.wordpress.com/2016/10/06/one-stone

Photo by Romaine - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vogelen_in_het_Rijksmuseum-bovenaf.jpg

October 4th, 2015 – Bird Watching in the Rijksmuseum

REORGANISATIONReorganisation Rijksmuseum Research Services (February – May 2016)

• Centralisaton of different departments & new mission

• Focus on integrated collection information management

Centralised former (sub-)departments

• Collection Systems & Data Management

• Rijksmuseum Research Library

• Collection Documentation

• Study Room / Print Room

Head ofResearch Services

Research Library

Curator Library Collections

Coordinator Library Administration

Information specialists Library

Collection Information

Coordinator Collection Information Information Specialists

Collection IT

Project leader Information systems

Data manager

Application manager Collection

Application manager Library

Study & Reading

Room

Coordinator Study- & Reading Room

Information Specialists

Stacks

Coordinator Depot

Technical Staff

Management Assistant

New positions (7)

Vacancies for existing positions (2)

Summer-Autumn 2016

+ project add-ons + project add-ons

+ project add-ons

+ project add-ons

+ project add-ons (2)

Organization chart Research Services

Concerns• Consolidation of past research results

• Ingestion of annotation data from past events

• Collection data infrastructure embedded in RMA IT architecture & policy

• Data Modelling (CIDOC –CRM / EDM)

• Setting up & maintaining an integrated semantic collection data architecture

& infrastructure

• R&D in cooperation with external partners but also in alignment with RMA

(Collection) IT policy

Part of ‘De menagerie’ by Melchior d' Hondecoeter, ca. 1690http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.8744