> 2000: Mobility of objects

January 2000, founding of CulturalHeritage.cc, at the time named MuseumDepot.org Foundation.

As of January 2000, a database model has been developed for moveable objects in cooperation with The Dutch Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN). The goal was to build a digital platform to publish objects in storage and thus to enable research, mobility of objects (e.g. loan, exchange, de-accessioning) and virtual access to objects that might otherwise never be displayed.

>2002

CulturalHeritage.cc Foundation (previously MuseumDepot.org Foundation) presented its system in concert with The Dutch Institute for Cultural Heritage at the ICOM conference in Barcelona.

> 2003: Intangible heritage

A call made by AFRICOM for documenting intangible heritage, before the AFRICOM conference in 2003, made clear that the database developed by the Foundation could respond to that need, as it already allowed not only uploading digital images, but also storage of sound, video and all other types of standard documents (PDF, PPT, Word, Excel, etc).

>2004/2005/2006 and onward.

MuseumD-System Software trainings were executed by our team in Senegal, Kenya, Namibia, Robben Island Training Program South Africa, Mozambique, the Netherlands and the Russian Federation respectively

> 2006: Implementation of Tangible and Intangible heritage documentation and inventorying

Visionary statements from South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) at the Museums Association Namibia (MAN) conference in Walvisbay, in 2006, suggested that CulturalHeritage.cc could implement important changes in the database model. Interconnectivity of collections of all types, tangible and intangible was essential. The system underwent major changes during the following six month, and is since then available in its enhanced version.

> 2007: Cross-bordering projects

CulturalHeritage.cc extended its database model with a Project-Database.

Projects of historical and cultural value undertaken by cooperating institutions are stored in our database and are being updated by the joint members.

Exchange of academic research, knowledge and experience in the field of international cultural heritage is brought together and functions as a communication platform for its participants.

In this way we provide not only documentation of cultural heritage of all types, but also support easy linkage between different collection items and documents within this cross-bordering projects database.

Members of CulturalHeritage.cc have access to this database and are invited to participate.

Trainings with the MuseumD-System and support with the project database are executed on demand: info@culturalheritage.cc

>2008: Development and Policy

Terms of references as developed by SAHRA were further specified and implemented in the collective database model. After 8 years of modeling, development and testing, the present database model comes close to the envisioned perspective of our foundation: to provide a complete contextual model that serves documentation of all types of cultural heritage to heritage institutions at lowest possible costs; offline as well as online; with possible synchronization of the offline version with the online version. It simultaneously functions as an international research and communication platform.

>2009: Russian Museums Association

After comparative research of Collection Management Systems (CMS) in the Netherlands (2007) by the Russian Museums Association (RMA) - assisted by the Foundation for Cultural Inventory and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN) – RMA announced a joint project with SCI and CulturalHeritage.cc Foundation to implement MuseumD-System.

Among the reviewed CMS-systems Adlib, Musip and MuseumD-System were thoroughly examined by the RMA.

Result of the comparative research of the CMS programs is the usage of MuseumD-System for the project involving the training of 28 trainees from 14 regional museums in the Russian Republic in 2009 and 2010.

The Russian translation of MusemD-System is partly sponsored by the Prince Bernard Foundation.

Following training and survey of the translation executed in March 2009 in concert with the RMA, the first ‘Training for Trainees’ took place in the House of Leo Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana, September 2009

The program proved suitable for digitization of the Russian collections in the Russian language and does not require the purchase of any additional software. To provide sustainability, adaptation to specific sub-collection formats can be implemented by the RMA within its own environment, ownership and responsibility. Local data storage and private access to the award winning CrossmarX ‘Application Engine’ guarantees long-term ownership and enables RMA to apply proper specifications within its own environment.

>2008/2009: NEMO Energetica collection

The Energetica collection (16.097 electric objects) has been successfully imported and upgraded within the CulturalHeritage.cc web environment. With the new owner of the collection, NEMO Science Centre, a program starts to incorporate the collection into the NEMO website.

>2009: Repositioning of Aims and Objectives

Different member users have proved the envisioned wide and diverse use of the system:  Collections of Dutch & Flemish art inventoried by SCI (Stichting Cultuur Inventarisatie – Culture Inventory Foundation), Historic monuments of Namibia by MAN (Museums Association Namibia), 16.097 electric apparatus and machines by the Energetica Foundation, are obviously collection types that show the variety of use.

Also the database for Shared Heritage projects extends its original model towards a communication platform for various cultural heritage subjects.

All its users can easily apply cross-reverences between objects, sites and intangible heritage topics.

>2010

January: NAMIBIA software trainings

MuseumD-System (collection Management System) trainings took place in January 2010, in Namibia.

The 21 day tour was organized by the Museum Association of Namibia funded by UNESCO.

22- July

Training for trainers from the Netherlands

26-July

Training for trainers from the Netherlands

2-June

Training for trainers from the Russian Museums Association

Opening of our new training facilities in Amsterdam

STUDIO, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 141

1012 DG Amsterdam

30 May-1 June 2010

CODART DERTIEN congress, Rotterdam in cooperation with the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.

Digitization: blessing or burden?

Market of ideas

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September

MuseumD-System TRAINING

Robben Island Training Program (RITP)

Please NOTE: Support and training Team

The support and training team represents a group of experienced users of the MuseumD-System that are trained to be trainer on national or local levels in different countries. Trainers with different mother tongue are available and will be presented to the applicant party by CulturalHeritage.cc Foundation. Trainings are given in the following languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

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