Becoming Digital: Dutch historic perspective (museums)

Becoming digital:Dutch historic perspectiveTrilce Navarrete

STPA Social Theory, Policy and the Arts Conference

Seattle

25-26 October 2013

Becoming digital: Dutch historic perspective

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Today

Dutch policy on museum digitization Background

Museums in the Netherlands

Government financing

Historic overview

Types of programs

Results

Current state of Dutch museums

And then … ?


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How did we get there?

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/


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Dutch museums 810 museums: most are independent managers of the national heritage The government remains an important source of financing

Source of financing for digital activities 2012 (N=864)


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Government financing Financing instruments to stimulate digitization:

1. Coordinating organizations

2. National programs (wide coverage, multi purpose)

3. Grant projects (one-time opportunities, R&D, reduce digital divide)


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Government financing Historic overview:

1969 1980 1990 20000 2010


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Government financing Financing instruments to stimulate digitization:

1. Coordinating organizations:

• MARDOC €1.3 million in 20 years

• DEN Foundation currently €1 million per year

2. National programs: (wide coverage, multi purpose)

• Delta Plan €95 million + €150 million

• Digital Delta €1.8 million

• eCulture €24 million

Give continuity to developing field

Great long-term impact


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Government financing Financing instruments:

1. Grant projects (one-time opportunities, R&D, reduce digital divide)

• Fishing documentation €7k

• SMA €2.8 million (85 projects)

• PC-museum project €0.1 million

• Metamorfoze €8 + €10 + €48 million (< 6 million images)

• CATCH €6 + €3 million (10 projects)

• Digitization with a policy €12.2 million (57 projects)

• Images for the Future €154 million (3 institutions)

Change practice by setting requirements


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Results Adoption of the digital:

1. Museums using computers (PCs)

• 1987 = 6% 2009 = 97%

2. Museums connected to the Internet (have a website)

• 1995 = 7% 2007 = 99%

3. Collections registered digitally

• 1983 = 7% 2009 = 81% 2012 = 70% digital image

4. Collections published online

• 2008 = 8% 2012 = 25% Information plans

• 2007= 6% 2012 = 55%


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Results Adoption of the digital:


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And then …? Even though the advancements are impressive, only a hand full of

museums are becoming digital

If 70% of collections are digitized, and only 25% are available online, the public is missing out ! (though it is better than the 6% exhibited)

There is no data on why museums struggle to publish online (Know-how? Copyright? Gatekeeper withdrawal? Resources?)

Future policy should support lower barriers to embrace the digital


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Thank you !

Navarrete, Trilce (2014) A history of Digitization: Dutch Museums

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