BAM: A German Portal to Libraries, Archives, Museums

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Author(s): Werner Schweibenz (University of Konstanz, Germany)and Jörn Sieglerschmidt (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 17
Source title: Handbook of Research on Technologies and Cultural Heritage: Applications and Environments
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Georgios Styliaras (University of Ioannina, Greece), Dimitrios Koukopoulos (University of Ioannina, Greece)and Fotis Lazarinis (University of Ioannina, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-044-0.ch004

Keywords: Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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Starting from cultural heritage initiatives of the European Union and cultural portals such as the European Digital Library Europeana and the future German Digital Library, the paper presents BAM, the joint portal for libraries, archives, museums in Germany which is currently the only portal for cultural content. since the German Digital Library is not yet online. The goal of BAM is to provide access to and increase the visibility of German cultural content on the Web. To do so the portal directs users from the list of results on the BAM website to the digital object on the participating institution’s website. In addition, an alliance was formed with Wikipedia Germany to offer the possibility to link directly from an article’s web link section to the results of a corresponding BAM search. Moreover, organizational, technical and content related issues of BAM are described. Finally, future research directions for cultural portals are indicated.

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