Saskia Scheltjens discussed the evolving landscape of libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) in an era of digitization and open data. She outlined both the similarities and differences between these communities, as well as opportunities for greater collaboration. While LAMs historically developed separately, there is now a push for convergence driven by the increasing availability of digital information. However, fully integrating these communities remains an ongoing challenge. Scheltjens highlighted several promising projects and principles that could help facilitate more cooperation between LAMs in the future.

1. Forever In Between
similarities and differences, opportunities and
responsabilities in the LODLAM universe
Saskia Scheltjens, Head of Research Services Department
@saschel – s.scheltjens@rijksmuseum.nl - slideshare.net/saschel
SWIB 19 – Semantic Web in Libraries
Hamburg, 26 November 2019 #swib19

2. ByMichielHendrickx

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Ghent University / Belgium Rijksmuseum / Netherlands
Previous & current workplace

4. Department of
Research Services
Integrated new department
centralising all kinds of
collection information & data
(digital ánd analog)
including open data policies
research data management
and data services
+/- 35 people
LAM-ification
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5. LAM’s
Past & Present
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6. Encyclopedic : Exclusive – Expensive - Integrated
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Ole Worm’s Cabinet of Curiosities (1655 )
Museum Wormianum, inv. nr SIL21-07-001
The Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest by Willem
van Haecht (1628)
Rubenshuis, inv. nr RH.S.171
GALLERIES & CABINETS OF CURIOSITIES / WUNDERKAMMERN
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File
:The_Gallery_of_Cornelis_van_der_Geest.
JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File
:Musei_Wormiani_Historia.jpg

7. Library and Cabinet of Curiosity of the grand dutchess of Tuscany, by Jan Luyken, 1689
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http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.142772
First Seperation – More public

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Specialised : Public- Affordable - Seperated
ByJohnLewisMarshall

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Data-fication
ByJohnLewisMarshall

10. Digital Turn
ByTheOpteProject-OriginallyfromtheEnglishWikipedia;CCBY
2.5,https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1538544
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11. The increasing availability in electronic form of information
generally and of new kinds of information more particularly
will lead to a redefinition and integration of the different
categories of ‘information’ organizations. (…)
It is clear that, if electronic sources of information are to be
effectively managed for future access by historians and
others, differences between libraries, archives and museums
will largely have to disappear and their different philosophies,
functions, and techniques will be integrated in ways that are
as yet unclear.’
W. Boyd Rayward (1998)
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Utopian LAM convergence dreams

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Persistent LAM convergence dreams
Culture is Digital report (2018) - UK

13. Fascinating
RLG-OCLC project
2007-2009
report
workshops
results
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LAM information & data convergence
https://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publicatio
ns/library/2008/2008-05.pdf

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Early LODLAM projects
http://www.catchplus.nl/
https://www.nwo.nl/en/research-and-
results/programmes/Continuous+Acce
ss+To+Cultural+Heritage+/CATCH

15. CURRENT
ISSUES
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16. Relevant & DIVERSE communities
#ALA #ARL #ARLIS-UK #ARLIS-NA
#CERL #Code4Lib #CULTURAIL
#DARIAH #DH #DH-Benelux #ELAG
#ETM #Europeana #ICOM #CIDOC
#IFLA #LIBER #LODLAM #MCG-UK
#MCN #MuseumNext #MUSETECH
#MW #NDE #OKBN #OKBV
#OPENGLAM #SHARECARE #SHARP
#SIMIN #SWIB #WSWB
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17. LIBRARY communities
#ALA #ARL #ARLIS-UK #ARLIS-NA
#CERL #Code4Lib #CULTURAIL
#DARIAH #DH #DH-Benelux #ELAG
#ETM #Europeana #ICOM #CIDOC
#IFLA #LIBER #LODLAM #MCG-UK
#MCN #MuseumNext #MUSETECH
#MW #NDE #OKBN #OKBV
#OPENGLAM #SHARECARE #SHARP
#SIMIN #SWIB #WSWB
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18. #International Federation of Libraries
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Focus of current projects #IFLA19

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Selection of current projects #LIBER19
#Association of European Research Libraries
Scholarly Communication
- Open Access – Plan S,
EOSC, Metrics, …
Research Infrastructures
- LOD, Research Data
Mgmt
Digital Skils & Services
- Digital Cultural Heritage,
Digital Humanities, …

20. MUSEUM communities
#ALA #ARL #ARLIS-UK #ARLIS-NA
#CERL #Code4Lib #CULTURAIL
#DARIAH #DH #DH-Benelux #ELAG
#ETM #Europeana #ICOM #CIDOC
#IFLA #LIBER #LODLAM #MCG-UK
#MCN #MuseumNext #MUSETECH
#MW #NDE #OKBN #OKBV
#OPENGLAM #SHARECARE #SHARP
#SIMIN #SWIB #WSWB
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Selection of current themes #MCGUK19
‘Open Access’
Digital Leadership
Creative Re-use
Inclusiveness

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Selection of current themes #MCN19
Data as collection
Infrastructure => maintenance
Organisational & personal sustainability

23. Digital strategy / Digital Transformation
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https://mw18.mwconf.org/paper/structurin
g-for-digital-success-a-global-survey-of-
how-museums-and-other-cultural-
organisations-resource-fund-and-structure-
their-digital-teams-and-activity/

24. ‘Digital’ inflation
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https://medium.com/@loictallon/digital-is-more-than-a-
department-it-is-a-collective-responsibility-786cdf816d12

25. Constructive
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26. INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH communities
#ALA #ARL #ARLIS-UK #ARLIS-NA
#CERL #Code4Lib #CULTURAIL
#DARIAH #DH #DH-Benelux
#ELAG #ETM #Europeana #ICOM
#CIDOC #IFLA #LIBER #LODLAM
#MCG-UK #MCN #MuseumNext
#MW #NDE #OKBN #OKBV
#OPENGLAM #SHARECARE
#SHARP #SIMIN #SWIB #WSWB
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27. #SHARECARE themes s w i b 1 9

28. Similarities / Duplications
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http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.629328

29. ‘Reinvention
does
not
scale’
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Co-existence ≠ Co-operation

30. PROMISING
HIGHLIGHTS
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31. Selection of systems & hackathons
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Selection of projects & standards

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Selection of projects & principles

34. OPPORTUNITY
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Existing ICOM definition (2007 – 1946)
A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of
society and its development, open to the public, which acquires,
conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible
and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the
purposes of education, study and enjoyment.

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Proposed new ICOM definition (2019)
Museums are democratising, inclusive and polyphonic spaces for
critical dialogue about the pasts and the futures. Acknowledging
and addressing the conflicts and challenges of the present, they
hold artefacts and specimens in trust for society, safeguard
diverse memories for future generations and guarantee equal
rights and equal access to heritage for all people.
Museums are not for profit. They are participatory and
transparent, and work in active partnership with and for diverse
communities to collect, preserve, research, interpret, exhibit,
and enhance understandings of the world, aiming to contribute
to human dignity and social justice, global equality and planetary
wellbeing.

37. POLYPHONIC
PLURIVERSE
TRANSITION
IN BETWEENNESS
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http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.585176
Concepts waiting to be investigated more

39. HOW?
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Samuel Quiccheberg
( 1529-1567)
Inscriptiones, 1565
First treatise on museums
Inspiration

41. The Cooperative
Frame of Mind
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Radical collaboration
RichardSennett

42. Improvisation
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/garciaon/4128845581

43. RECAP
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44. ByMichielHendrickx
Personal positioning
LAM’s past & present
Current issues
Promising highlights
Opportunity
But how?
Play

45. THANK YOU
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