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Jill Cousins

Jill Cousins is Programme Director for the European Digital Library and The European Library. Recently appointed Executive Director of the EDL Foundation, she has many years experience in web publishing, which are now being applied to the libraries and the cultural heritage arena. Her past experience includes the commercial publishing world as European Business Development Director of VNU New Media and scholarly publishing with Blackwell Publishing running their online journals service. Prior to publishing she had a variety of marketing and research careers in the information field. These ranged from being the Marketing and Event Director for Learned Information to managing her own research company, First Contact. All of which is very deviant from her first career as a Middle Eastern Map Researcher for the Ministry of Defence. Jill holds a PhD in Geography on Sixteenth Century Arabic and Turkish Sea-charts.

Wietske Donkersloot

Wietske Donkersloot (1976) is Mellon Fellow van het Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD) en het Mauritshuis in het kader van het project ‘Technische documentatie van Rembrandt-schilderijen’. Het doel van het project, dat wordt gesubsidieerd door The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York, is om de resultaten van technisch en kunsthistorisch onderzoek naar schilderijen van Rembrandt online raadpleegbaar te maken. Tot en met eind 2007 is zij tevens coördinator van het vernieuwingsproject van de website van CODART, het internationale netwerk van conservatoren van Nederlandse en Vlaamse kunst. Van 2001 tot en met 2006 werkte Wietske achtereenvolgens als bureaumedewerker en beleids- en projectmedewerker voor CODART. Daarvoor was zij betrokken bij projecten voor de Museumvereniging en de geschiedenisafdeling van het Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Donkersloot studeerde geschiedenis en kunstgeschiedenis aan de Universiteit Leiden en publiceert over onderwerpen uit beide vakgebieden.

Wietske Donkersloot (1976) is working as Mellon Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) and the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in The Hague. She is involved in the Pilot Project ‘Conservation documentation of Rembrandt paintings’ supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York. Together with a team of conservators and curators of the RKD and the Mauritshuis she develops an inter-institutional research resource on paintings by Rembrandt. Through 2007 she also manages a renewal project of the website of CODART, the international council for curators of Dutch and Flemish art. From 2001 through 2006 Donkersloot worked for CODART as senior associate. Previously, she was involved in projects of the Dutch Museums Association and of the history department of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Wietske studied history and art history at Leiden University. She publishes articles on both fields of study.

Andrew Gessner

Andrew Gessner is the Chief Librarian of the Image Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he has been since 2005. His department maintains and distributes the photographic record of the Museum's objects, as well as performing the rights and reproductions activities for the Museum. Andrew was the Curator of Visual Resources in the Art History Department of Columbia University from 1998 to 2003, and the Director of the Gimbel Art and Design Library of Parsons School of Design from 2003 to 2005.

Abstract lezing

In a companion piece to Daniel Starr’s discussion, this paper will describe a sampling of American image digitization projects, many involving the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The costs, funding sources, and scopes of these projects vary widely. Institutional operating budgets, capital campaigns, grant funding, and donor funds are all possibilities, and often a project requires the creative combination of these sources. Different approaches to funding and image selection will be discussed.

Marco de Niet

Marco de Niet (1962) is directeur van de stichting Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland, het nationale kennisplatform voor ICT in het cultureel erfgoed. Hij heeft Nederlandse taal- en letterkunde en Boekgeschiedenis gestudeerd aan de Universiteit Leiden. Vóór DEN was hij werkzaam bij de Koninklijke Bibliotheek, als hoofd van de afdelingen Innovatieve Projecten en Digitale Duurzaamheid. Hij is een van de 'founding fathers' van The European Library.

Marco de Niet (1962) is director of the Digital Heritage Netherlands Foundation, the Dutch knowledge platform for ICT and cultural heritage. He studied Dutch language and literature and History of the book at Leiden University. Before DEN he worked at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the national library of the Netherlands, as head of the departments Innovative Projects and Digital Preservation. He is one of the 'founding fathers' of The European Library.

Abstract lezing

Vanaf 2005 maakt kwaliteitszorg een essentieel onderdeel uit van het Nederlandse overheidsbeleid voor digitalisering van cultureel erfgoed. Zelfregulering speelt hierbij een belangrijke rol speelt. De digitaliserende instellingen hebben zelf een grote verantwoordelijkheid voor standaardisatie in het kader van een nationale infrastructuur voor digitaal erfgoed, en er is goede voortgang gemaakt met het benoemen van minimale eisen voor digitalisering. Maar we zien ook de positieve effecten wanneer ICT-standaarden worden opgenomen in de criteria van subsidieregelingen voor digitaliseringsprojecten, zodat de toepassing ervan door middel van financieringsmogelijkheden wordt afgedwongen. In zijn presentatie gaat De Niet in op de resultaten van dit tweesporenbeleid voor kwaliteitszorg. Hoever zijn we gevorderd met kennisopbouw over digitalisering in de instellingen zelf? En wat merkt het publiek hiervan?

Daniel Starr

Daniel Starr assumed his present position of Manager of Bibliographic Operations at the Thomas J. Watson Library of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2001. He is responsible for managing all aspects of technical services in the Watson Library, and for coordinating operations with the twenty-five other independent libraries in the Museum. He began his career as Reference/Catalog Librarian at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1979 he moved to New York to take the position of Senior Cataloger at The Museum of Modern Art Library and in 1996 he was promoted to Chief Librarian, Technical Services and Planning. He was President of the Art Libraries Society of North America in 2002.

Abstract lezing

Funding sources for digitization in the United States are diverse and uncoordinated. Project management and selection is also diverse and uncoordinated. This paper will show some of the types of organizations involved in funding and carrying out digitization of art documentation in order to illustrate this complicated landscape. It will include examples from one project carried out by The Metropolitan Museum of Art as an example of what is happening in one institution.

Mark Wolffe

Mark Wolffe is at present responsible for the Architectural Sciences Library at the TU Eindhoven (Eindhoven University of Technology). Prior to taking up his present post, he was employed by the Faculty of Architecture at the TU Delft developing assessment methods for testing design skills of undergraduates. Other work in the field of education includes research and (postgraduate) teaching in the applications of remote sensing for urban research. Before reading for his degree, he worked for a number of years in the University of Cape Town Libraries in South Africa. He graduated from the TU Delft in 1985 with a degree in Urban Planning and Design and later completed a post-graduate course at the University of Amsterdam in document and information management. His career (thus far) has been divided between working in academic libraries and in tertiary education.