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EINSTEIN AND TASMANIAN TIGERS ACADEMIC HERITAGE IN FLANDERS AND
ITS CHALLENGES
S. Leenknegt, D. Segers, I. Rotthier, G. Van Paemel, F. Scheelings, T.
Noordermeer
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Interuniversity Platform for Academic Heritage
Ghent University
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
University of Antwerp
KU Leuven
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Interuniversity Platform for Academic Heritage
• Begun in 2007
• Started with 4 members (1 of
each university)
• SAE as example
• Project funding from Flemish
Government
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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
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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
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Academic Heritage in Flanders
• Collection management ≠ core business
• 54 of 100 collections have inventories
→ Only 14 digital inventories
• 3 of 100 collections (partially) digitized
• Many collections lack any form of policy
• Conservation problems
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Report published
soon:
Balans en
Perspectief.
Academisch Erfgoed
in Vlaanderen
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Balans en PerspectiefAims of phase II (2013-2014)
→ Screen other institutes for
higher education for AH
→ 8 colleges already contacted
→ 20 new collections ‘discovered’
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Aims of phase II
→ Create stories
about
extraordinary / rare
/ significant objects
and collections
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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
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A future for academic heritage
→ Consolidate results of the project
→ Gear collection management to
one another
→ Making inventories and digitization
is key
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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
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