In June, my colleague, Anette Waller (research librarian) and I presented our institutional archive KHIODA at the annual ARLIS/Norden (Art Libraries Society, Nordic Countries) conference in Oslo. The theme for this year’s conference was “Digitisation in Art Libraries and Art and Cultural Heritage Museums”.

Anette talking about metadata exchange

We are very proud of KHIODA. There are very few institutional archives dedicated to artistic research, so ours is a pioneering work. We talked about establishing a brand new service on a shoestring budget, file formats, copyright, metadata exchange, how to get faculty to share their results in the archive, what to share, what to digitise, the Norwegian joint coding system lacking classification for our subjects, and much more. The powerpoint presentation contains lots of examples with links to the archive for those interested in exploring it!

Our powerpoint presentation of KHIODA, the Oslo National Academy of the Arts institutional archive

Our library was well represented at the conference:

In addition to Anette’s and my presentation, Artistic Research Archive at Oslo National Academy of the Arts: Pioneering Work on a Shoestring Budget, our former colleague, Åse Anna Markussen (former leader of the Oslo Art Academy’s library and one of the founding mothers of ARLIS/Norden) also gave a presentation, ARLIS Norden 30 years. The Pioneer Years and some Glimpses from the Development.

Both Anette and I were elected new members representing Norway to the ARLIS/Norden board, with me as the new chair.

So, now we are just waiting for next year’s conference in Helsinki!

You can find all powerpoint presentations from the conference (available as pdfs) on the ARLIS/Norden website:
http://www.arlisnorden.org/presentations-from-the-conference1.html