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Museum 2015: Progress in development of collection management in Finland
Satu Savia, project managerMuseum 2015
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Finnish Museums
Three national museums The National Museum, which operates in conjunction
with the National Board of Antiquities the Museum of Natural History, which is a University
of Helsinki institution the National Gallery 14 national specialist museums in different fields
(cultural history, traffic, architecture and design) which perform duties relating to storage, research and exhibition.
Finland has 22 regional museums and 16 regional art museums, extending the network of museums to the whole country
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Finnish Museums
c. 160 professionally run museums responsible for over 300 museum sites and locations.
Their collections comprised nearly 4.5 million objects and over 286 000 works of art
Museum expenditure in Finland totalled 208.4 million euro.
The average costs per museum were 1,335,789 euro.
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Finnish Museums
Ministry of Education and Culture grants discretionary subsidies for the renovation of museum buildings, for ICT projects and the digitisation of museum collections.
It also grants state indemnities for art exhibitions
A number of museum projects have been co-financed by the EU Structural Fund. Additionally there are several smaller museums which receive discretionary subsidies from the National Board of Antiquities
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Cultural-historical collec-tions
Art collections Natural historical collec-tions
Photographical archives collections
Objects (millions) 5.7 0.336 23 24.3
Electrically cataloged 2.12 0.26 3.08 3.04
Digitalised 1.08 0.30 2.42 1.87
2.5
7.5
12.5
17.5
22.5
27.5
37,2%
78,4%
13,4% 12,5%
19,0%88,1%
10,5%7,7%
Objects in Finnish MuseumsElectrically catologed and Digitalised objects
Objects (millions)
Electrically cataloged
Digitalised
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Museum 2015 – backround
300 different Collection Management Systems in Finland
IT Center for Science Ltd: “The current state of collections management in Finnish museums and how it could be developed” (2011)
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Museum 2015 – backround
Pilot museums delivered data to the National Digital Library of Finland in 2011
Pilot data pointed out: numerous inconsistencies in the museum
cataloging different CMSs cause most of the
inconsistencies in metadata some problems solved by a harvesting tool
LIDO, but not all
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Aims of Museum 2015
The main outputs 2012-2015:
Enterprise architecture for museum sector Development of cataloging New unified Collection Management System
for Finnish Museums Development of museum sector’s interface in
National Digital Library
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Working groups
outputs of Museum 2015 are made in working groups
consist of museum professionals, other specialists
comment groups
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Working group for cataloging
primary aim: harmonize museum cataloging draw up a process description for cataloging create platform-independent and standardized
cataloging instructions based on SPECTRUM find a common consensus of classifications
systems for museums to describe the objects that are chosen to catalogue
recommendations of the use of ontologies and controlled vocabularies
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Working group of the enterprise
architecture
create an overview of the museum sector's collection management as a whole
4 sub-architectures: the business, data, application and technology
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Working group of functional and
technical requirements specifications
Aims: System very up-to-date with the current state
of progress made in information science System follows standards System is very easy to use Challenges: Variety of museums Ease of use / CMS should be suitable for many
different and complex processes
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Working group for the public
interface
Museum sectors own interface under National Digital Library’s national interface FINNA
Aim: create the most insightful and innovative window to museum’s collections
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