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Description: Cultural heritage institutions are on the verge of making their artefacts available in digital form. During this transition they are faced with conceptual and technical challenges that have only little overlap with their traditional domains but provide them with a lot of opportunities. We aim at empowering them to deal with some of these challenges by designing workflows attached to the data flow within a digital long-term preservation system. The preservation framework processes data by utilising micro-services. These are tailored to accommodate data transformations that can help institutions making their data available if they choose to participate in the interconnected digital world

Description: Das Förderprogramm Digitalisierung des Landes Berlin fördert Digitalisierungsprojekte in Berliner Kulturerbeeinrichtungen und hat parallel dazu die Servicestelle Digitalisierung (digiS) als zentrale Beratungs- und Koordinierungsstelle eingerichtet. Ziel ist dabei, eine technische und organisatorische Infrastruktur für die Projekte sowie zur Sicherung der Langzeitverfügbarkeit digitalen Kulturguts vorzuhalten. Der Artikel beschreibt das Förderprogramm, das Aufgabenspektrum von digiS und die Herausforderungen, die sich für Kulturerbeinstitutionen ergeben, wenn sie sich auf den offenen Dialog mit ihren Nutzern einlassen und ihre Objekte digital langzeitverfügbar halten wollen.

Description: The city state of Berlin supports digitisation projects in its cultural heritage institutions and has established the Service Center for Digitisation (digiS) as a central supporting and coordinational unit. As a goal, a technical and organisational infrastructure for the projects as well as matters for the digital preservation of cultural heritage objects shall be provided. The article describes the support program, the range of tasks of digiS and the challenges that arise for cultural heritage institutions, if they want to open up and digitally preserve their objects for a long time.

Description: Das Förderprogramm Digitalisierung des Landes Berlin fördert Digitalisierungsprojekte in Berliner Kulturerbeeinrichtungen und hat parallel dazu die Servicestelle Digitalisierung (digiS) als zentrale Beratungs- und Koordinierungsstelle eingerichtet. Ziel ist dabei, eine technische und organisatorische Infrastruktur für die Projekte sowie zur Sicherung der Langzeitverfügbarkeit digitalen Kulturguts vorzuhalten. Der Artikel beschreibt das Förderprogramm, das Aufgabenspektrum von digiS und die Herausforderungen, die sich für Kulturerbeinstitutionen ergeben, wenn sie sich auf den offenen Dialog mit ihren Nutzern einlassen und ihre Objekte digital langzeitverfügbar halten wollen.

Description: We present iCon.text, a kiosk platform for the iPad centered around artefacts, whose content and layout can be tailored without programming skills for specific museum exhibitions. The central metaphor to access information is a virtual postcard with one front and a customizable number of back sides that provide details about exhibits to museum visitors in textual and image form. Back sides can link to others cards. Access to these postcards is possible through one or more navigation views that can be navigated to from a navigation bar. The entry point to the application is designed as a multitouch interactive pile of cards in a playful manner that allows visitors of any age an easy approach to the presentation and interaction metaphor. To directly access a certain postcard, a mosaic view can be uitilized to provide an overview about all available exhibits. A category view groups postcards into themes. Locating artefacts on a zoomable map or exhibition floor plan allows for conveying information about spatial contexts between different objects and their location. Furthermore, contexts can be illustrated with a two stage view comprising an overview and corresponding detail views to provide further insights into the spatial, temporal, and thematic contexts of artefacts. The application scaffolding allows the design of bilingual presentations to support exhibitions with an international audience. The logo of the presenting institution or exhibition can be incorporated to display the the kiosk's corporate design branding and to access an imprint or further informations. Usage is logged into files to provide a basis for extracting statistical information about the usage. The details about the exhibits are presented as images and as such impose no limit to the design choices made by the content provider or exhibition designer. The application (enhanced with a panoramic view) has been integrated successfully into a large special exhibition about the ancient city of Pergamon 2011/2012 at the Pergamon Museum Berlin within the interdisciplinary project "Berlin Sculpture Network".