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

2017年，德国艺术史文献中心-福托马尔堡图像档案馆有机会购买了位于慕尼黑的国际知名出版社希尔默的照片档案。该档案馆收录了近7万张由Max und Albert Hirmer和Irmgard Ernstmeier-Hirmer在50年间亲自拍摄的照片。《约》的主题范围。35.000件作品涵盖了从古代到现代的建筑、美术和装饰艺术的方方面面。然而，在档案的获取、数字化和数据库编目开始后，这项工作只完成了一小部分。目前大约是。目前仍有21,500张照相底片用于数字化，约32.000张用于编目和网上出版。该应用程序的目的是完成数字化和编目，以使人们能够获得所需的和用于学术研究的高度重要的库存。这些照片将在艺术与建筑数字索引中免费发布，在那里可以通过各种标准(地点、艺术家、流派、描绘对象的日期、材料和技术、摄影师的姓名和照片拍摄日期)进行研究。为私人和私人目的免费下载数字图像副本的可能性将被设置。此外，计划向德国数字图书馆和欧洲图书馆提供元数据和图片材料。

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.