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museum-digital is a platform on which museums large and small publish information about their objects. It contains a large variety of objects that are linked with each other through many different links. It thus aims to present subjects in a most approachable way and provide ease in the finding of objects.
', 'starttext_paragraph2' => 'But museum-digital is more than that: it is an initiative, in which we work on finding ways and creating tools for an easy online publication of object information for all museums. We are developing a system which aims to be mostly free, time efficient and easy to use. A system that can be used by all museums, no matter the way the museum manages the information pertaining to its objects internally. For museums that do not yet use a dedicated program for inventarization, museum-digital offers the relevant functions. Information about the museum objects is further enriched at museum-digital and can subsequently be reformated and easily exported for embedding on relevant portals, such as europeana, Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, etc. - if the museum wants that. Currently, you can find information on:', 'starttext_paragraph3' => '
The origin of the development of museum-digital is the AG Digitalisierung (Task Force Digitization) of the Museumsverbandes Sachsen-Anhalt (Museum Association Saxony-Anhalt), whose work is aided by the Institute for Museum Research (SMB-PK). From the beginning, the experience of museums from Rhineland-Palatine and other regions were incorporated into the process. Because of its origin on a regional level, museum-digital has a number of regional instances besides the German nationwide one. By now, a number of international instances have also been created:
', 'deutschland' => 'Germany', 'international' => 'International', 'thema_vok_intro' => 'Besides the pure object information, the presentation of objects in exhibitions and thematic compilations is an important objective of museum-digital. For this, there is the "Topics" page that is continuosly being expanded. Essential for a good categorization and indexation are the strongly controlled authority files of museum-digital. The respective vocabularies have their own page.', 'themen' => 'Topics', 'vokabulare' => 'Vocabularies', 'socialmedia' => 'Social Media', 'handbuch' => 'Handbook', 'statistik' => 'Statistics', 'kontakt' => 'Contact', 'deutsch' => 'German', 'englisch' => 'English', 'blog' => 'Blog', 'Sachsen-Anhalt' => 'Saxony-Anhalt', 'Berlin' => 'Berlin', 'Rheinland-Pfalz' => 'Rhineland-Palatine', 'Baden-Württemberg' => 'Baden-Württemberg', 'Brandenburg' => 'Brandenburg', 'Hamburg' => 'Hamburg', 'Hessen' => 'Hesse', 'Ostwestfalen-Lippe' => 'Ostwestfalen-Lippe', 'Westfalen' => 'Westphalia', 'SMB' => 'Staatliche Museen zu Berlin', 'Thüringen' => 'Thuringia', 'Bremen' => 'Bremen', 'Niedersachsen' => 'Lower Saxony', 'Agrargeschichte' => 'History of Agriculture', 'Sachsen' => 'Saxony', 'Rheinland' => 'Rhineland', 'Schleswig-Holstein' => 'Schleswig-Holstein', 'Mecklenburg-Vorpommern' => 'Mecklenburg-Vorpommern', 'Bayern' => 'Bavaria', 'Collectors' => 'Collectors', 'Ungarn' => 'Hungary', 'Oesterreich' => 'Austria', 'Brasilien' => 'Brasil', 'Indonesien' => 'Indonesia', 'USA' => 'USA', 'Daenemark' => 'Danmark', 'themen_beschreibung' => 'The meaning of single objects is often not fully comprehensible without it being embedded in a topical overview together with other objects. The page "Topics" provides a growing number of topical overviews.', 'vokabulare_beschreibung' => 'A most important aspect of museum-digital are the vocabularies, which provide context information on people, places, tags, etc. On the page "vocabularies", you get direct access to these.', 'document_archive' => 'Document archive', 'more' => 'More', 'search' => 'Search', 'search_objects' => 'Search objects', 'objects' => 'Objects', 'collections' => 'Collections', 'museums' => 'Institutions', 'join_us' => 'Join us', );