Digitisation / Cataloguing of non-textual objects: Digital catalogue of the drawings collection at the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Jochen Luckhardt
• Subject Area: Art History
• Term: from 2012 to 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 203978864

The aim of the project is to provide a digital catalogue of the drawings collection at the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig. The drawings are of international importance though have been only selectively published so far. Intended for digital indexing are about 10.000 drawings from the 14th to 21st centuries, with the main emphasis on the early modern period. The wealth of the collection is represented by masters such as Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein the Younger, Peter Rubens, Giambattista Tiepolo, Carl Blechen, Paul Cézanne, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Francesco Clemente. During the project period of thirty-six months all 10.000 drawings should be catalogued and made freely available to the Internet users. 7.500 drawings have to be digitally photographed. The indexing is based on a category scheme which has been worked out according to international models. It has also been inspired by the DFG (German Research Foundation) project "Virtual Printroom” of the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum and the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, largely based on controlled vocabulary and internationally acknowledged as a groundbreaking development in the field. The high quality of the digital images will set new standards. Inventory evidence of the drawings will be provided within a portal closely related to the “Virtual Printroom“. The metadata can be harvested in museumdat/LIDO format by national and international portals (Image Index of Art and Architecture, europeana, BAM portal, Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek).

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)