Topics in this newsletter:

• Dive into the historical sources of the Central Bureau of Statistics
• Chabot Museum signs NDE Manifesto
• Introduction to collection management systems
• Managing and presenting construction files

Dive into the historical sources of the Central Bureau of Statistics

The CBS is celebrating its 125th anniversary this month. Since 1899, the statistics office has been the provider of reliable, objective statistics in our country. The establishment of the CBS marked the moment when statistical research gained its professional, institutional foundation. Population censuses have been a fixed part of the bureau’s publication program from the very beginning. Initially, the censuses were used to verify and keep the population registers up to date. Over time, they have been expanded with questions about social issues, such as living conditions. As a result, population censuses have become more important for formulating and evaluating government policy.

For the management and public availability of publications from before 2000, Atlantis is used. Through the website https://historisch.cbs.nl/ these collections (full-text) are searchable. This concerns digitized paper collections. Here you can find publications from 1899 to 2000. Statistics published earlier in the 19th century, such as those on crime, population, and agriculture, are also included.

Chabot Museum signs NDE Manifesto

Chabot Museum from Rotterdam has chosen Atlantis for collection management and online presentation fully in accordance with the NDE compatible guidelines. Recently, they signed the NDE Manifesto. This manifesto describes five principles of the National Strategy for Digital Heritage. By signing the manifesto, the organization indicates its support for these principles. Director Jisca Bijlsma states: 

‘In 2024, our team will undertake a major catch-up in registering and digitizing the significantly grown collection of works by Chabot, his contemporaries, and contemporary like-minded individuals. Next year, a large part of the collection will finally be online. This makes the collection accessible to the public and facilitates knowledge sharing and collection mobility. We have chosen a new collection management system (Atlantis/DeventIt). It feels like starting with a clean slate where we will achieve NDE compatibility by using the Term Network, publishing images based on IIIF, and making information available as linked open data. We are looking forward to it!’

Introduction to collection registration systems

The foundation for your digital collection is your collection registration system. This allows you to sustainably preserve, connect, and often present your digital objects for the future. But how do you choose a collection registration system that fits your organization? And what points can you consider in your choice? And of course: how can you finance this transition or purchase?

On Tuesday, January 30 from 09:00 – 12:30 Heritage House South Holland is organizing a digital meeting where you can get to know various collection management systems in three rounds. This means you can gather all sorts of useful information in one morning and also compare 3 systems with each other. A total of 7 collection management systems/providers will participate in the workshop rounds. When you register, you can select 3 systems to get to know. The meeting is intended for volunteers, employees, and members of historical associations, (regional) museums, archives, and other heritage institutions. 

Of course, Atlantis must not be missing from that selection! Here you will learn how Atlantis handles collection management and online presentation. We will explain how we sustainably connect external information and apply and present it in a usable way. Atlantis meets all guidelines related to using and sharing usable information.

Managing and presenting construction files

At the end of last year, KVAN – Royal Association of the Archive Sector in the Netherlands – shared a knowledge document about presenting construction files. A very informative publication that provides various insights into the online offering of construction files. You can view the knowledge document directly via the button below this article. 

In preparing the knowledge document, environments where Atlantis is used for the management and publication of construction files were also examined. This concerns the Archive Gooi and Vechtstreek and the Regional Archive Nijmegen. For the West Brabant Archive, a project is underway with Atlantis to renew the presentation layer, of which the presentation of construction files is a part. 

Atlantis has a standard module available for managing and presenting construction files. Various options are available regarding availability. There are restrictions on public access, with extensive configuration options to determine which documents – in what way – are visible. Atlantis is also familiar with anonymizing/redacting information. Through Atlantis, requests for applications, downloads, and scans can be processed. Furthermore, Atlantis is used to retrieve construction files from external applications, such as e-Depositories, and offer them to employees and the public.