Presentation by Saskia Scheltjens (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) on October 31st 2016 at the workshop Two Birds, One Stone: Bridging cultural heritage collections with crowds and niches.

1. Hilversum – DIGIBIRD workshop
October 31st
, 2016
ACCURATOR Annotations @
Saskia Scheltjens
Head of Research Services department

2. Credits
• Lizzy Jongma (RMA)
• Geertje Jacobs (RMA)
• Henrike Hövelmann (RMA)
• Trineke Kamerling (RMA)
• Lora Aroya (VU)
• Chris Dijkshoorn (VU)
• & all others involved ….

3. Facts and Figures
Rijksmuseum collection
National Museum of Art ánd History
Largest art historical collection online
Physical Collection
Collection of ~1,200,000 objects
Print collection ~700.000 prints
Artworks on display ~8.000 (in flux)
Digital Collection
+ 650,000 object metadata records
572.793 object metadata online
274.718 high res images online
in CC0

4. Facts and Figures
Research Project
(2011 – 2015)
Cooperation with RMA
• Workpackage 6 :
Personalized semantic search
• Workpackage 7 :
User interfaces for cultural
heritage media (UI)

5. Facts and Figures
Research Project (1-4/2016)
Cooperation with RMA
• Continuation of
SEALINKMedia Project (WP6)
• Valorization project
• Targeted audience
engagement of images via
crowdsourcing (nichesourcing)

6. Events
• October 4th, 2015 – Bird Watching in the Rijksmuseum - annotation event
https://sealincmedia.wordpress.com/activities/birdwatching-rijksmuseum
• February 5th
, 2016 - Kick-off meeting DigiBird project
https://sealincmedia.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/digibird-kickoff-meeting
• April 23rd
, 2016 – Stich by Stich – annotation event
https://sealincmedia.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/stitch-by-stitch-annotatin
g-fashion-at-the-rijksmuseum
• October 31th, 2016 - Final workshop
https://sealincmedia.wordpress.com/2016/10/06/one-stone

7. Photo by Romaine - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vogelen_in_het_Rijksmuseum-bovenaf.jpg
October 4th
, 2015 – Bird Watching in the Rijksmuseum

8. REORGANISATION
Reorganisation Rijksmuseum Research Services (February – May 2016)
• Centralisaton of different departments & new mission
• Focus on integrated collection information management
Centralised former (sub-)departments
• Collection Systems & Data Management
• Rijksmuseum Research Library
• Collection Documentation
• Study Room / Print Room

9. Head of
Research Services
Research
Library
Curator Library
Collections
Coordinator
Library
Administration
Information
specialists
Library
Collection
Information
Coordinator
Collection
Information
Information
Specialists
Collection IT
Project leader
Information systems
Data manager
Application manager
Collection
Application manager
Library
Study &
Reading
Room
Coordinator
Study- & Reading
Room
Information
Specialists
Stacks
Coordinator
Depot
Technical Staff
Management
Assistant
New positions (7)
Vacancies for existing positions (2)
Summer-Autumn 2016
+ project add-ons + project add-ons
+ project add-ons
+ project add-ons
+ project add-ons (2)
Organization
chart Research
Services

10. Concerns
• Consolidation of past research results
• Ingestion of annotation data from past events
• Collection data infrastructure embedded in RMA IT architecture & policy
• Data Modelling (CIDOC –CRM / EDM)
• Setting up & maintaining an integrated semantic collection data architecture
& infrastructure
• R&D in cooperation with external partners but also in alignment with RMA
(Collection) IT policy

11. Part of ‘De menagerie’ by Melchior d' Hondecoeter, ca. 1690
http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.8744