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In the context of the new DFG-programme "Specialised Information Services for Researchers" the two partner libraries
UB Heidelberg | SLUB Dresden |
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focused mainly on: | focused mainly on: |
European Art History up to 1945 and General Art Studies | Art since 1945, Photography, Industrial Design and Commercial Graphic Arts |
are extending their existing services towards a joint Fachinformationsdienst Kunst, Fotografie, Design (Specialised Information Service Art, Design, Photography). The aim of the current funding phase (2021-2023) is the further expansion of arthistoricum.net to an integrated, subject-specific information service on European art and art history including photography and design. The entire service portfolio is primarily intended to meet the current needs of science, while at the same time guaranteeing a comprehensive range of information and literature for future research. In addition, the specialist information service promotes and supports digital research and publication practice.
In close collaboration with art historians, the following key aspects will be pursued during the current project phase:
- Needs-based acquisition and consolidation of digitally available resources
- Extension of the subject-specific information infrastructure by further developing the portal arthistoricum.net
- Support and development of new services for open-access electronic publishing
- Digitization and subject-cataloguing of resources relevant for art history
- Bibliographical services and authority control for research
- Public relations / marketing / exchange with science and research
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The aim of the project is the further expansion of arthistoricum.net into an integrated, specialist information service on European art and art history, including photography and design. www.arthistoricum.net is the central, already established in the specialist community information infrastructure of the "specialist information service art, photography, design" (henceforth: FID), which has been operated by both applicants since 2012. In addition to providing its own information service, the portal increasingly serves as an interactive presentation and communication space for interdisciplinary research and interest groups. The well-used blog for the cross-disciplinary, professional and collaborative exchange of knowledge is to be expanded by an editorially supported news service on network publications to provide an informative facet.
The value-added services implemented in the first two project phases (2014-2017; 2017-2019) were systematically consolidated and further developed in the third project phase (2020) in order to meet the differentiated needs of the specialist communities on the functional and content level. The conceptual updating and re-planning of the fields of work incorporated numerous findings that were gained from scientific collaborations in recent years. In addition to acquiring holdings in the print area, the focus was still on expanding the national online offering of art historical media - above all in the context of national FID licenses and the provision of full-text searchable digitized, copyright-protected art literature in open access. The trained competence fields of search technology, information infrastructure, electronic publishing; retro digitization and online presentation of research-relevant media stocks as well as science communication were consistently expanded. The possibilities of collaborative publication options realized with linked data technologies (e.g. digital works directories or online editions) as well as the image research area have also been significantly strengthened.
In the fourth project phase, the systematic consolidation and further development of the value-added services implemented in the previous project sections will continue to be pushed forward. Both the continuation of the inventory build-up in the print area and the expansion of the nationally available online offers of art historical media (FID licenses, e-publications and retro-digitized items in open access) will continue to be carried out according to the established and proven criteria, as will the continuous expansion of the fields of competence search technology, information infrastructure, electronic publishing and science communication. This also includes the expansion of collaborative linked data technologies for publication options and research tools. In all activities, the specific needs of the scientists and the current development lines of the disciplines are decisive for the further development of the offers.
arthistoricum.net has been part of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) since October 1st, 2020. As co-applicants, SLUB Dresden and Heidelberg University Library are jointly responsible for Task Area 4 (Data publication and data availability) of the NFDI4Culture consortium for research data on tangible and intangible cultural assets. Further information can be found here: arthistoricum & NFDI4Culture.
The supra-institutional provision of all media and information offers of the FID KUNST/Specialised Information Service for Art goes well beyond the basic tasks of academic libraries and offers scientists optimal support for the research process in the field of basic and cutting-edge research through location-independent access options in connection with digital working instruments.
arthistoricum.net works closely with its scientific advisory board. Further impulses are expected from the close collaboration with the scientific partners in ongoing and planned sub-projects. In addition, the coordination process with the specialist community is continued systematically and continuously. Roadshows (on-site and virtual) in art history institutes serve to "advertise" the range of services, but also to coordinate with users.
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In the years 2001 to 2004 (Dresden) and 2005 to 2010 (Heidelberg/Munich), two virtual libraries were established for the subject of art history with the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG): Since then, the SLUB Dresden has been operating "ViFaArt -Virtual Library of Contemporary Art" as a special collection library for "Contemporary Art since 1945, Photography, Industrial Design and Commercial Graphics". The Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (Central Institute for Art History), together with the LMU München (Institute for History of arts) and the Heidelberg University Library responsible for the special collection "European Art History up to 1945 and General Art Studies", operated "arthistoricum.net - Virtual Library of Art History".
After expiration of the DFG funding, it was decided to merge the two services and to present an integrated virtual library of art to the expert community under arthistoricum.net. The new offer started in January 2012 and will - after the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich withdrew from the project at that time - only be operated by the above mentioned partners.
The new conception of the now jointly maintained platform was carried out under consideration of the modules existing in arthistoricum.net and ViFaArt. A graphically and functionally convincing sum of the offers of both predecessor portals was aimed at. For this purpose, a critical appraisal of each previous component was carried out, various elements were reworked and, when necessary, modified.
Since 2014, the existing offerings have been expanded to become a specialist information service for art, photography and design as part of the new DFG programme Specialist Information Services for Science and Humanities