Historiska Museet - The Swedish History Museum

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Description

Event:

Collections management: AXIELL - bringing culture and knowledge to life

Target group:

• Global audience

Purposes:

• Digital vision for collections management • Globally accessible collections

European initiative reference:

n.a.

Info

Sweden

Space Needed: Medium

Activity:

Trilling stories, interactive stations for all the senses and 2500 original objects about the Viking world from the ice age to the present day. The Swedish Historical Museum preserves the history of Sweden and shows how history influences society.

Contact

tel.: +46 (0)8 519 556 00 / +46 (0)8 519 556 20 e-mail: info@shm.se

Website

Strengths

New products and a new way of experiencing art
Axiell software user-friendly
Networking with the Axiell community
Increase museum’s outreach

Weaknesses

Additional costs for the implementation of digital solutions
Intermediarity of collections management (critical issues of data ownership)

Digital Solutions

Audio-visual materials
Online collections management tool
Digital exhibition
Social network and media in general
Axiell community

Methodology

The function of the platform is to offer an information service. It therefore allows the archiving of and access to files with information material in different formats and a search tool by categories or keywords.
The development of a platform with these characteristics involves a technical design component at the graphic and database design and analysis level, a programming component for the public website (mainly html+ DHTML+ Javascript+PHP) and a programming component for private access (mainly using php with a mysql database) for its administration.

Resources needed and start-up costs

Programming of the web-based collections management system: 6.000/10.000 euros
Already developed forum to be implemented: from 500 euros

Possible low cost solution

You could also develop a website without programming thanks to platforms such as WordPress. The latter also offers free or almost free packages.

Transferable innovative principles and methods

1. Online collections management: AXIELL COLLECTIONS

Managing museum and archive collections from wherever you are with this flexible, intuitive and web-based collections management system.

AXIELL COLLECTIONS’ implementation makes it possible to:

catalogue, manage and organize collections (leading software)
access to software through a web browser (access everywhere)
personalize and adapt the platform for users’ needs - staff and visitors (flexibility)
digitize collections (digitization)

2. Digitization project for collections: AXIELL solution for the access to the Viking World

In addition to internal collections management, The Swedish History Museum uses Axiell tools to make objects and collections available in digital format to visitors, communities and other institutions around the world (global accessibility).

All the objects, artefacts and texts in The Viking World can be accessed via mobile phone, tablet or computer, physically in the museum or at home.

source: vikingar.historiska.se

This solution makes it possible to link collections with thousands of others around the world. A search from the Swedish Historical Museum can lead to other archives, institutions, countries and even continents (the Axiell community).

Users of the online community, all around the world, can interact and help each other and share tips or questions. The services of the Axiell community represent a showcase that can be used to promote the museum and reach audience development.