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Automation at the RKD: a short overview1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Jan H. E. van der Starre
Jan H. E. van der Starre*
Affiliation:
Cultural Information Retrieval, RKD, PO Box 90418, 2509 LK The Hague, The Netherlands
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Abstract

The Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) is one of the largest art documentation centres in the world. It maintains collections of millions of reproductions and press clippings, as well as housing a sizeable library of approximately 400,000 books. In the past decade the RKD has begun setting up various automated systems for the management of these collections. The major systems in operation are the automated library with some 30,000 records online and accessible for visitors, a database with bio- and bibliographical information on artists, and the recently initiated image database. Plans for the future include in-house and web access to all databases, continued improvement and expansion of the systems, retrospective conversion of parts of the collections and publication of CD-ROMs.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , 1998 , pp. 15 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1998

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References

1. This article is an update of the article with the same title in the journal Computers and the History of Art vol. 7 no. 2 1997, p.67–69. The article in the CHArt journal is an account of the situation in 1995. The present article was written in February 1998.Google Scholar
2. For the remainder of this article the word ‘reproduction’ will be used to indicate all types of non-electronic visual material.Google Scholar
3. The addresss of the RKD Website is http://www.konbib.nl/rkd/ Google Scholar
4. The joint Website for Dutch museums can be found at http://www.hollandmuseums.nl/ Google Scholar