Klaus KEMPF
(Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB), Munich, Germany)
Keywords: bavarikon- digital collection building – intersectionarul collection building – data curation –
Abstract:
Visibility, accessibility and contextualisation of content are the keywords of the digital age. Digital collection building is completely different of what libraries until the advent of the digital revolution, in particular of the upcoming of the internet have done. The specific characteristics of the digital objects their requirements in administration, usage and archiving need a complete rethinking of the traditional collection building principles. Collection building is not more the business of the individual library. In the field of the digital born and copy right protected publications nowadays we’ve the consortia which do in first line licencing, but more and more something like collective collection building. The creating of big collections by digitizing copy right free material needs a complete new approach what does mean, the collection building itself, but also or even in particular the presentation of the digital copies and their (re) contextualisation. Here we’ve to form an alliance of all the memory institutions, archives, libraries and museums. Now in the digital age we’ve the unique chance to overcome the splitting up of collections happened especially in the 19th century. The new tecnology allows the reconstruction of the traditional collections and/or to (re)create contexts betweeen the different categories of digitized objects.Of course, we’ve to go also new ways what regards searchability and accessability of the material. Its not enough to have a good digitisation tecnology, you need also an adequate, in particular userfriendly platform or portal to present in the best way the different objects and to invite the users to get on it. With new forms of presentation, like 3D-copies and virtual exhibitions the curiuosity of the user will be stimulated and the attractivity of the information offered will be augmented. With bavarikon made and run by the BSB we’ve a prototype of this new way of contextualisednformationresentation.