Digitization and cataloguing the image archive of the publishing house Hirmer in Munich

2017年，德国艺术史文献中心-影像资料馆Foto Marburg有机会购买了国际知名的慕尼黑Hirmer出版社的影像资料馆。该档案包含近7万张照片，由Max und Albert Hirmer和Irmgard Ernstmeier-Hirmer在50年里亲自拍摄。大约的主题范围。35000个图案涵盖了从古代到现代的建筑、美术和装饰艺术的整个范围。然而，在获得档案后，开始了数字化和数据库编目工作，但工作只完成了一小部分。目前大约。21,500张摄影底片仍待数字化，约32,000张将编目并在网上发布。该应用程序的目的是完成数字化和编目，以使需求和学术研究非常重要的库存可访问。这些照片将在“艺术与建筑数字索引”（Digital Index of Art and Architecture）上免费发布，在那里可以根据各种标准（地点、艺术家、类型、描绘对象的日期、材料和技术、摄影师姓名和照片拍摄日期）进行研究。将设立免费下载数字图像副本的可能性，用于私人和学术目的。此外，还计划向德意志数字图书馆和欧洲图书馆提供元数据和图片资料。

In 2017, the German Documentation Center for Art History – Image Archive Foto Marburg had the opportunity to purchase the photographic archive of the international renowned publishing house Hirmer in Munich. The archive contains nearly 70,000 photographs personally taken by Max und Albert Hirmer and Irmgard Ernstmeier-Hirmer in five decades. The thematic range of the approx. 35.000 motifs covers the entire spectrum of architecture, fine and decorative arts from antiquity up to modern times.After acquisition of the archive, digitization and databased cataloguing started, however, the work has only been fulfilled to a fraction of completion. At the present time approx. 21,500 photographic negatives remain for digitization, about 32.000 are to catalogue and to publish online.The aim of the application is to complete digitization and cataloguing in order to make the demanded and for scholarly research highly important stock accessible. The photographs will be published with free access in the Digital Index of Art and Architecture, where they can be researched by a variety of criteria (locations, artists, genre, date of depicted objects, their materials and techniques, name of photographer and date of photo shooting). The possibility to download a copy of the digital image at no charge for private and schorlarly purpose will be set up. Furthermore, providing the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek and Europeana with metadata and pictorial material is scheduled.