proposal part b - The Bernstein Project

CIP-ICT PSP Call 4 25
Pilot B
[Imperialle]
The IVCR's department of graphic paper and archival material is working on the documentation and
conservation of Valencia's graphic heritage in the museums, archives, libraries and churches of the Valencian
Community. Since its opening, it has become the most important institution devoted to the field of
conservation and restoration in Spain.
Homepage: http://www.ivcr.es/
Key personnel
Carmen Pérez García.
• Catedrática de Restauración de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
• General Director of cultural heritage of Valencian Community until 2005
• managing director of IVCR since 2005
Key expertise in cultural heritage preservation, restoration
Marisa Ferrando
• Studies of fine arts at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.
• member of staff of Instituto Valenciano de Conservación y Restauración de Bienes Culturales” (IVCR)
at the restoration laboratory and member of the research department of watermarks
Key expertise in paper restoration, expertise in manuscripts and printed book restoration
Pascual Mercé
• Studies of Geography and History at Universidad of Valencia
• professional photographer since 1986
• twenty books published about Art, History and Photography
Key expertise in digitization of artwork, photography
B3.1.5 National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark (SMK)
Main expertise: The National Gallery of Denmark is Denmark’s main museum of the visual arts and has the
vision of becoming a leading national gallery.
Role: - data provider and WP6 leader: Monitoring and testing.
The objective of the museum is to build and maintain collections of Danish and foreign art, primarily art from
Western cultures from the 14 th century to the present. This task is accomplished through the collection,
registration, and preservation of relevant objects, and through research and communication pertaining thereto.
The strong incitement to communicate via the internet has resulted in a very proactive outreach to the
museum’s main audience: the public, scholars and colleagues.
Relevant for the Imperialle project is a unique collection at the SMK of prints and drawings, which comprises
more than 245,000 objects. The SMK has expertise in paper technology, art historical research, photodigitisation,
and the management of large amounts of data. SMK has been applying advanced IT technology for
almost two decades, the most important recent projects being a contemporary open-source system developed by
CollectionSpace (implementation, testing and project management), digitalisation activities (glass plates to
high-resolution TIFF, library paper archives to online databases), and upgrading projects, advanced web design
as well as technical skills to support the on-site state-of-the-art digital equipment. The National Gallery of
Denmark is investing in a five-year developmental programme (SMK-Digital) to bring the museum to the very
forefront of digital arts communication. This communications enterprise is based on the museum’s collections
and the artistic knowledge and expertise that the museum represents by virtue of its position as a leading
research institution. Digital representation of the museum’s collections requires these works to be digitised.
SMK-Digital consists of a series of projects, including a new website for the museum (launched April 2010;
www.smk.dk). The online collections give the user online access to the museum’s collections and shows how
museum professionals work with the collections. Another project, “Stories of Art”, plans to add still another
dimension to this dissemination process, in which the art is brought to life (to be launched at the end of 2010 –
with time it will be possible to incorporate Imperialle). A planned art database will make information about the
museum’s collections, research and exhibition activities available online (to be launched in 2011). The