EINSTEIN AND TASMANIAN TIGERS ACADEMIC HERITAGE IN FLANDERS AND ITS CHALLENGES S. Leenknegt, D. Segers, I. Rotthier, G. Van Paemel, F. Scheelings, T. Noordermeer
Ghent University KU Leuven University of Antwerp Vrije Universiteit Brussel Interuniversity Platform for Academic Heritage
Interuniversity Platform for Academic Heritage • Begun in 2007 • Started with 4 members (1 of each university) • SAE as example • Project funding from Flemish Government
Aims of Platform • Gain an overview of academic heritage (AH) in Flanders • Make university boards aware of the necessity of policies on AH • Design long-term strategies for professional collection management of AH • Gain and exchange expertise • Make AH known to broader audience
Funded project: Balans en Perspectief Phase I (2011 – 2012): • Screening of universities of Leuven, Ghent, Antwerp and Brussels • 100 collections described • Estimated amount over 1.000.000 objects
Academic Heritage in Flanders • Collection management ≠ core business • 54 of 100 collections have no inventories → Only 17 digital inventories • 3 of 100 collections (partially) digitized • Many collections lack any form of policy • Conservation problems
Report published soon: Balans en Perspectief. Academisch Erfgoed in Vlaanderen
Balans en Perspectief Aims of phase II (2013-2014) → Screen other institutes for higher education for AH → 8 colleges already contacted → 20 new collections ‘ discovered ’
Aims of phase II → Create stories about extraordinary / rare / significant objects and collections
Aims of phase II → Research on how to create an online portal for AH • Database with digitized objects + stories on special objects/collections • Report with results of research → Public event to present results of project
A future for academic heritage → Consolidate results of the project → Gear collection management to one another → Making inventories and digitization is key
A future for academic heritage → From project basis to regular basis → Integrate initiatives for AH into policy : → at the level of universities → at the level of Flanders
www.academischerfgoed.be http://academischerfgoed.be/in-english
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