Cultural Heritage in REGional NETworks REGNET Swedish Partners

Cultural Heritage in REGional NETworks REGNET

Swedish Partners: Content and Digitising Plan Stockholm University Library The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Swedish Museum of Natural History The County Museum of Gotland October 2001 Project presentation REGNET 2

Swedish Partners: Content and Digitising Plan Stockholm University Library IT-development Rare-book collection, 10. 000 books Carl Linnaeus donation of his book Hortus Cliffortianus in 1739 founded the Academy Library and the Linnean collection Swedenborg Collection Bergianska Library Collection October 2001 Project presentation REGNET 3

Swedish Partners. . . Examples from SUL’s Rare Book Collection From two books of the famous entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 -1717) October 2001 Project presentation REGNET 4

5 Rare Book Collection Two illustrations, one from the eighteenth century and one from the sixteenth century October 2001 Project presentation REGNET

6 Rare Book Collection Körner, Magnus (1808 -1864) Skandinaviska däggdjur… Lund, 1855 October 2001 Project presentation REGNET

Swedish Partners: Content and Digitising Plan The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Archives Portrait collection Scientific Instrument Collection, 3600 instruments Rare Book Collection (see SUL) October 2001 Project presentation REGNET 7

8 Swedish Partners: Content and Digitising Plan – examples from KVA October 2001 Project presentation REGNET

9 Swedish Partners: Content and Digitising Plan – examples from KVA October 2001 Project presentation REGNET

Swedish Partners: Content and Digitising Plan The Swedish Museum of Natural History Collection, c: a 9 million objects. The museum collection is represented in Botany, Geology, Palaeontology, Zoology… The Museum Shop, c: a 2000 objects (minerals, surrogate animals, fossils, jewellery, fashion, posters etc) October 2001 Project presentation REGNET 10

11 Swedish Partners: Content and Digitising Plan – examples from NRM Papaver rhoeas, L October 2001 Project presentation REGNET

12 Swedish Partners: Content and Digitising Plan – examples from NRM October 2001 Project presentation REGNET

Swedish Partners: Content and Digitising Plan The County Museum of Gotland Collection, c: a 80. 000 objects Museum Shop features historical and cultural development of Gotland until present day October 2001 Project presentation REGNET 13

14 Swedish Partners: Content and Digitising Plan – examples from LMG October 2001 Project presentation REGNET

15 The Linnaeus Theme Linnaeus and the Linnean Tradition BOTANY, ZOOLOGY BOTANICAL ILL. SCIENTIFIC TRAVELS DISCIPLES SOLANDER TURKEY ABOUT LINNAEUS CLASSIFICATION, TAXONOMY LINNAEUS LINK LINNAEUSON-LINE October 2001 Project presentation REGNET NRM

Digitising Plan for Swedish Partners Stockholm University Library Scanning of loose plates Photographing of delicate books outsourced and then digitised Digitised objects will be stored on the library server and on CD-ROM Conversion of Natural Sciences catalogue by OCR-technique in a parallell project( c: a 400. 000 cards ) Manual cataloguing of selected items c: a 100 in Libris (MARC 21) and REGNET (Dublin Core) October 2001 Project presentation REGNET 16

Digitising Plan for Swedish Partners The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Scientific Instrument Collection consisting of 3, 636 items is digitised in low-resolution JPEG format, the database in MS Access will be migrated to the REGNET system The Portrait collection is scanned in TIFF format in 350 dpi-resolution and in 36 -bit colour. The portraits are stored on CD: s. Card catalogue only. Portraits selected for the REGNET project will be catalogued according to Amico or Dublin Core standard October 2001 Project presentation REGNET 17

Digitising Plan for Swedish Partners 18 The Swedish Museum of Natural History A catalogue of parts of the collection is already searchable on the web Parts of The Linnaeus Herbarium is digitised and searchable on the web The Museum Shop Objects selected for the REGNET project will be photographed and digitised in-house The selected objects will be catalogued in REGNET according to the Amico standard October 2001 Project presentation REGNET

Digitising Plan for Swedish Partners The County Museum of Gotland The present database in Super base and MS Access is being improved and migrated to the REGNET system Objects in the Museum shop are being scanned and photographed anew for improvement Images of saints (60) will be scanned for the Saint´s theme October 2001 Project presentation REGNET 19