Digitalisering av kulturarvet En studie av digitalisering vid två museer
The purpose of this thesis is to examine how two separate museums have realised the task of digitizing their collections, as well as to learn what options, possibilities and resources have been available to them during this process. Additionally, the aim here is to find how the two museums have dealt with problems in connection to the digitization projects, since there are as-of-yet no established regulations or standards to guide them in their digitization efforts. However, national and international working groups seeking to establish better collaboration between archives, libraries and museums ALM institutions have recently begun to formulate recommendations and suggested standards. Some of these recommendations have been used here as a theoretical framework in the examination of the two museums. The research questions posed are: What options, possibilities and resources have been available to the museums in their digitization projects, in terms of economy, staff, technical equipment and time?; For what purpose are the museums digitizing their collections?; and How does their purpose influence the process and chosen procedures? Also discussed here is how the museums relate to some of the existing recommendations. People in key-positions at the two museums have been interviewed in this study, in an attempt to find answers to the above questions. Furthermore, literature, previous research and in-house documents have been studied and analyzed here. Even though the two museums initially were found to have similar possibilities and opportunities, this study shows that the digitization projects have nonetheless gone in different directions. Also shown here is that the purpose for digitizing has an effect on the process, different technology and procedures is used for different purposes. Furthermore, it is found that the museums relate to and correspond with the presented recommendations to inconsistent degrees.