The Bernhard-Heiliger-Stiftung preserves and researches the sculptor's extensive estate. In a 2023 digiS project, BiblioCopy digitised historic photographs from the archive and integrated the existing metadata.
Project period
2023
Collections
Historical archival photographs
Services
Image digitisation, metadata integration
The photographic estate as a research resource
Historic photographs document works, studio settings, exhibitions and working processes. To make them usable digitally, image quality, file naming and links to descriptive metadata all need to work together reliably.
- Careful, reproducible capture of the original photographs
- Consistent quality control of image files
- Matching and integrating the supplied metadata
- Structured transfer for archive and digital presentation
Sustainable safeguarding of artistic heritage
Combining high-quality reproductions with reliable metadata supports art-historical research into the estate while reducing the need to handle the delicate original photographs.