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Trilce Navarrete's presentation on a survey of digitization in Dutch cultural heritage institutions, presented at MCN 2009 session "Economics 911: The Economics of Digitizing Cultural Collections"
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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
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Why
• Limited resources
• 3 decade history
• Need to know ‘meten is weten’
Inform decision making
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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%
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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
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5 sectors
Digital Facts
Production
23% is digitized41% must be digitized36% does not have
to be digitized
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Digital Facts
Production
Expenditure (in euros)
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Expenditure: average $ 158,686 USD
Digital Facts
Costs areas
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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
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Museums
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Museums
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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
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Dutch experience
Data gathering strategies:
Self-registration
Increase transparency Support structural accountability
at national levelProtect past investment with
sustainable future financing
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Towards Universal Access to Heritage Knowledge …
Thank you … !
MCN 2009 - Digital Heritage in the Netherlands