Projects
At Wander, we believe that together we achieve more. That's why we're an active partner in numerous projects within the library and heritage sector. We're happy to offer our expertise and technical infrastructure to help build catalogs and databases. In other projects, we provide metadata or take a leading role, such as with the editorial team for the Art & Architecture Thesaurus® (AAT®).
Projects
Abraham is an online catalogue of Belgian newspapers stored in Flemish libraries and other heritage institutions.
Our contribution?
Wander takes care of the technical realization of the catalog.
Antilope is the collective catalog of journals available in around 200 Belgian research libraries. Antilope is an important tool for interlibrary loans. Antilope also plays a role in preservation projects, such as the Bioding and Biomed projects.
Our contribution?
Wander plays a leading role in this project. We ensure:
- the technical realization of the catalog;
- the import of the metadata from the various libraries in the catalog.
Since 2012, Wander has been closely involved in the Getty Research Institute (GRI) Vocabulary Program (VP) in two ways. The GRI manages some of the largest and most used vocabularies in the international GLAM sector.
Wander plays an active role via:
- its own AAT editorial working group;
- and the Flanders-Netherlands AAT editors working group.
Over the years, we have proposed hundreds of improvements, translations and new concepts. This is how we contribute to the quality, usability and universality of the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT®), a recognized authority within the Oslo Exchange Standard.
There are various projects in Flanders/Belgium where a number of institutions work together to establish a distributed storage policy for a set of (paper) magazines from their collection. For example, there is the BioMed project for biomedical journals or the BioDing project for journals in the field of bioengineering sciences.
Our contribution?
These projects use the Antilope dataset, Impala's services and the specific depot application in Wander, in which the statuses and movements of the titles involved can be kept up to date.
The collection of devotional prints of the Ruusbroec Institute is unparalleled in the Netherlands. It is estimated that it includes around 45,000 prints, images and drawings from before ca. 1850.
Our contribution?
For this project, Wander developed a tailored database with WanderCollections building blocks, including the Assets and Public catalog modules.
The project IMPRESSVM. The Cradle of the Hand Press Book in Flanders in cooperation with collection management institutions, registers all incunabula printed in Flanders in Flemish possession on the basis of a standardized model.
Our contribution?
Wander has developed a tailored database with WanderCollections building blocks, including the Cataloging, Authorities, Public catalog and Assets modules.
The contemporary art collection, collected by the University of Antwerp since the early 1970s, has since grown into a reference collection of Belgian contemporary art. Most of it can be admired publicly on the campuses.
Our contribution?
For this art collection, Wander has developed a tailored database with WanderCollections building blocks, including the Assets module.
The project STCV. The Bibliography of the Hand Press Book in Flanders has been working since 2000 on an online database with extensive bibliographic descriptions of books that were printed in cities in present-day Flanders before 1801.
Our contribution?
Wander has developed a tailored database with WanderCollections building blocks, including the Cataloging, Authorities, Public catalog and Assets module.
UniCat is the collective catalog of Belgian libraries. UniCat's focus is on academic and research library collections.
Our contribution?
Wander provides metadata annually and takes an active role in the steering committee.
The Visual Name Authority is a meemoo project and consists of:
- an overarching list of relevant personal names that are uniquely and unambiguously identified and linked to existing authorities;
- the creation of a shared reference set from cuts of portrait photos of relevant people for facial recognition.
Our contribution?
In this phase, Wander provides personal data.
The Flemish Academic Bibliographic Database for Social and Human Sciences (VABB-SHW) is a project with which the Flemish government wants to take the work of researchers from the social and human sciences more into account when distributing the funds for the special research funds (BOF) of the universities. The VABB-SHW project has been assigned to the R&D Monitoring Expertise Center (ECOOM) and is carried out by ECOOM-Antwerp and the Department of Library & Archives at the University of Antwerp (Digital Solutions Service).
Our contribution?
Wander provides the database where research publications from the social and human sciences can be included. The search portal provides access to all VABB-SHW publications that meet the criteria of the BOF decree.
In 2014, the Wander library network established a partnership with OCLC to upload the full catalog in WorldCat, an international database that brings together the collections of around 70,000 libraries worldwide.
Our contribution?
Wander ensures:
- providing metadata to WorldCat;
- enriching local metadata with OCLC open datasets, such as VIAF.
For example, we want to increase the international visibility of our library collections and significantly improve the search and discovery tools.
This project is made possible thanks to the support of the University of Antwerp and the City of Antwerp.
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