Brandenburg-Digital Coordination Office
The Brandenburg-digital coordination office is a cross-disciplinary advisory office of the state of Brandenburg for cultural heritage institutions. It works together with the Brandenburg.digital working group, which operates across all sectors throughout the state, and the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture(MWFK) to implement the common digitisation goals. The central topics are retrospective digitisation, digital presentation and digital preservation (archiving) of cultural assets. Organisationally, the coordination office is located at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and is assigned to the information sciences department.
Profile of the coordination office
Goals
The aim of the coordination office Brandenburg-digital (KBD) is to improve the digital presentation of cultural assets from the state of Brandenburg. By increasing the digital visibility of the individual institutions and holdings, a very real and substantial contribution is made to increasing the digital visibility of Brandenburg as a cultural state. Specifically, it is about enabling the many and mostly smaller cultural heritage institutions (archives, libraries, monument preservation, memorial sites, museums and research institutions) to participate in digitisation projects and cooperative presentation platforms. Building on this, the aim is on the one hand to keep the digital content usable in the longer term and on the other hand to integrate content into national and international online portals such as the German Digital Library(DDB) and Europeana. In this context, the Brandenburg-digital coordination office points out the use of licences for the use of digital information that are as free as possible. The KBD is also involved in this area on the topic of open data from cultural institutions.
In addition, the Brandenburg-digital coordination office maintains an exchange of information with institutions and networks from the state of Berlin, such as the Research and Competence Centre for Digitisation Berlin(digiS) or the Competence Centre for Preservation and Libraries in Berlin and Brandenburg(KBE). This involves the exchange of information on current digitisation topics and joint workshops. In addition to communication in a regional context, the KBD is active in national networks for activities in the state of Brandenburg.
Tasks
- Information on cooperation partners for cultural heritage institutions for the purpose of supporting digitisation projects.
- Contact with representatives of the individual cultural sectors via the members of the Brandenburg.digital working group
- Contact with the competence network of the German Digital Library for the targeted dissemination of current information and developments relating to the state of Brandenburg
- Contact to institutions and networks in the state of Berlin
- Overview of ongoing and completed digitisation projects in the state of Brandenburg to promote the exchange of experience
- Supporting the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture in matters relating to the digitisation of cultural assets
- Co-initiating and organising information events and workshops
- Collaboration in the creation of concepts for the state of Brandenburg within the framework of the work of the Brandenburg.digital working group
- Functioning as an office for the Brandenburg.digital working group
- Advice on suitable third-party funding lines and cooperation with third-party funding institutions
- Advice on and visualisation of aspects of digitisation, including the possibility of using the digitisation laboratory of the Department of Information Sciences
Working group Brandenburg.digital
The informal working group Brandenburg.digital is a continuation of the "Brandenburg Round Table on the Digitisation of Cultural Property", which was formed in 2007 on the initiative of the MWFK.
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