Current digital collection management projects at

Nasjonalmuseet

Magnus Bognerud, Consultant - Section for digital collection management

Two main ongoing projects:• New collection management system (CMS)

• Timescale: 2015 – 2019 (must be ready before move into new building)

• Computer vision and machine learning project – Principal Components

• Timescale: 2015 – 2016 (possibly expanded)

Magnus Bognerud, Consultant - Section for digital collection management

Project New CMS• The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design will move to a new building in 2019, which will be opened to the general public in

2020.

• A need for a state-of-the-art CMS that meets the museum's requirements. In addition to the traditional catalogue function, the system should also cover extended museum functions, as well as options for digitized planning and process management.

• A new CMS, should increase the efficiency of museum work and strengthen collaboration across the organization.

• A new CMS is a vital prerequisite to enable the safe movement of the collections to the new museum.

• A new CMS should support better integration of international standards for collection documentation, management, research and communication within the organization.

• According to the National Museum's digital strategy, the following digital options should be present in all new IT solutions: • The solution provides easy access to the desired information. • The solution makes it possible to explore content in detail. • The solution has been carefully considered, well designed and built. • The solution is available across multiple platforms. • The solution has open and shareable digital options. • The solution has sustainable and scalable digital options. • The solutions permit central control - Create Once – Publish Everywhere (COPE). • The solution protects content (with access and backup guarantees). If practicable, the National Museum shall offer digital end-to-end experiences that link together the public's encounter with museum exhibitions to websites and digital units. It is an objective that content in digital form can be easily reused on various platforms in different contexts.

Magnus Bognerud, Consultant - Section for digital collection management

The situation today:

Magnus Bognerud, Consultant - Section for digital collection management

• Several proprietary and bespoke systems with little or no integration – centred around the legacy system Primus

• Little or no support for conservation, transport, loans, exhibitions, project management, workflow or data export

Dreaming of a better tomorrow:

Magnus Bognerud, Consultant - Section for digital collection management

• Full integration or look-ups between all systems

• Support for conservation, transport etc.

• Built on industry standards

• Full and documented API

• Support for standardized export and exchange formats.

Roadmap:• 2015 – 2016: Development of project plan and a specification of requirements.• Summer 2016: Qualification for tender submittal.• Fall 2016: Evaluation of tenders.• Winter 2016: Signing of contract.• 2017: Project planning and data cleaning.• 2018: Conversion of data, implementation and acceptance testing.• 2018/2019: Approval of delivery and live launch.

Magnus Bognerud, Consultant - Section for digital collection management

Project Principal Components Machine vision, Deep-learning and Artificial Neural Networks

Cooperation with the IT and design company Bengler and supported by the Arts Council Norway

Seeing how algorithms in artificial neural networks can interpret images, generate useful art historical data, and assist in exploring the collection.

For us, some core questions in the Principal Components-project are; can we teach computer algorithms to recognize and identify motifs, techniques and periods in artworks? How accurate can algorithms trained on art collections data get? Will we be able to produce reusable classifications?

Magnus Bognerud, Consultant - Section for digital collection management

person: 3.4

hippopotamus: 1.8

Edvard Munch (1863-1944)Self-Portrait with Cigarette1895Oil on canvas110,5 x 85,5 cmNG.M.00470National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design

Preliminary test

01.05.2023© NASJONALMUSEETwatercraft: 5.1

glacier: 1.5

Asian crocodile: 2.3 Alligator snapping turtle: 2.3

Hans Gude (1825-1903)Adolph Tidemand (1814-1876)Bridal procession on the Hardangerfjord1848Oil on canvas 93 x 130 cm NG.M.00467

Neural network initially trained on ImageNet by Google

Using framework Caffe by Autonomous Research Lab – Berkeley

Retrained on the Wikiart collection One trained on style - One on tags Spatial representations using t-SNE

Second phase

Magnus Bognerud, Consultant - Section for digital collection management

T-SNE on keywords

Illustration source: The National museum of Art, Architecture and Design/ Bengler

T-SNE on style

Illustration source: The National museum of Art, Architecture and Design/ Bengler

T-SNE on keywords

Illustration source: The National museum of Art, Architecture and Design/ Bengler

T-SNE on style

Illustration source: The National museum of Art, Architecture and Design/ Bengler

Illustration source: The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design/ Bengler

Third phase – and future Application on samling.nasjonalmuseet.no (via DiMu’s API)

that identifies “neighbourhoods” and makes suggestions for future browsing “you might also be interested in” type of feature based on

either Possibly other features such as representativity by date-

span and classifying by Iconclass TBD on next project meeting 24th of august.

Launch by end of 2016 Continuation of project if funded in conjunction with NM’s

Digilab.

Magnus Bognerud, Consultant - Section for digital collection management

Illustration source: The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design/ Bengler