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03.03.2023
Institut für Museumsforschung
Authority data offer an important basis for networking museums and their holdings. The 2021 museum statistics indicate the level of need for information in this area. Fittingly, the online event GND-Forum Museen und Sammlungen (Forum on Integrated Authority Data in Museums and Collections) takes place on 6 March 2023. The topic is the use and establishment of controlled vocabularies and authority data.
In addition to the overall statistical survey conducted by the Institut für Museumforschung (Institute of Museum Research), all museums in Germany were asked about their digitisation status. Just under half of the responding museums took part in the special survey. It asked, among other things, which authority data the museums employed for cataloguing their collection objects. In the museum sector, with its many specialised collections, a number of other controlled vocabularies play a major role alongside the Integrated Authority File. A first overview of their use throughout Germany is now available. From it, three important findings stand out:
In keeping with the topic of controlled vocabularies and authority data, the Institut für Museumforschung is organising the online event GND-Forum Museen und Sammlungen with many partner institutions. On 6 March 2023, one of the topics discussed will be how establishing authority data can be advanced so that museums can benefit from documentation over the long term.