Practical case studies
On this page you will find application examples of some easydb s from German-speaking countries. Find out what different problems similar companies and institutions like yours faced before they found the right solution for the centralized management of their media with easydb .
University of Hildesheim
Since 2017, the Hildesheim University Library has been operating an easydb instance, which is used as a central service under the name HilData for data management and particularly focuses on the topic of research data management.
Bremen State Institute for Schools
With the online archive on the regional history of Bremen, the Center for Media of the State Institute for Schools Bremen (LIS) its offering. The central task of the LIS is to promote and support schools and educational institutions in the state of Bremen.
To make access to the image and film archive easier, the LIS uses the web-based software solution easydb . The entire collection, which consists of 400,000 analog and 20,000 digital images as well as around 3,500 films, is now gradually being digitized and transferred to the online archive. In the future, Bremen's history can be researched and browsed online in pictures and films.
Syrian Heritage Archive Project
The Syrian Heritage Archive Project is a cooperation project between the Museum of Islamic Art of the Berlin State Museums and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). The project is funded by the Cultural Preservation Program of the Foreign Office and by the Friends of the Museum for Islamic Art eV.
The project team is working on the scientific documentation of Syrian cultural monuments. The cultural assets are systematically indexed and digitally archived in an easydb database
European School of Management and Technology
The ESMT European School of Management and Technology is an international private university with doctoral degrees and has its headquarters in Berlin and the Schloss Gracht location near Cologne. ESMT was founded by 25 leading global Commercial and associations.
ESMT's diverse communications and marketing activities are divided into three departments at both locations. In order to optimally combine the work of the teams, ESMT decided web-based Digital Asset Management easydb .
Berlin Partner for Business and Technology GmbH
Berlin Partner for Business and Technology GmbH offers Commercial , investors and scientific institutions in Berlin extensive funding opportunities in the areas of business and technology. Commercial are behind the public-private partnership . One of the core tasks is global marketing for the capital Berlin.
The professional Digital Asset Management technology easydb supports daily work with images and media. Over 250 users work with the image database internally and externally.
Roman-Germanic Central museum in Mainz, RZGM
Within the easydb product family is easydb . museum is a software that goes far beyond pure image management. Object management, restoration, loan transactions and the mapping of many processes relevant to museums are carried out with easydb . museum realized. You can read how complex the requirements for such a project are in our case study, which was also published in the current issue of Restauro magazine.
University of Applied Arts Vienna
The University of Applied Arts Vienna is one of the most renowned training centers for design courses in the world and looks back on a long tradition of prominent teachers and graduates, with names ranging from Oskar Kokoschka to Karl Lagerfeld.
Disciplines such as art studies, art education or restoration depend on high-quality image material with a powerful zoom function...
kuniweb: inventory and management with easydb
kuniweb is the name of the web-based data collection for preservation institutions, with which an important step towards cooperative collaboration has been achieved. The project was initiated by the GBV network headquarters and implemented using the multimedia database software easydb .
For the first time, a common, central solution has been achieved which, thanks to the high flexibility of the easydb software, not only offers numerous features, interfaces and modules, but also meets the individual requirements of the individual museum collections.
Baden-Württemberg State Media Center
Before the Baden-Württemberg State Media Center decided to use easydb , the worst case scenario occurred: the image management provider dam was insolvent and bugs could no longer be fixed.
There was a data loss. Reason enough to take a close look at the tender. The Programmfabrik was selected from over ten applicants. The central requirement was a stable and secure system with an interface to SAP.
Responsibility for the future of the city: Mannheim
Stadtmarketing Mannheim GmbH has been promoting the positive external impact of the metropolis in the north of Baden-Württemberg since 2001. The visual representation of the region is of central importance in the print and web sectors.
Images must be managed in such a way that copyrights can be controlled in a legally secure manner at all times when publishing and sharing.
Via the press portal , Stadtmarketing Mannheim GmbH provides images for non-commercial use in connection with the Mannheim location and its external representation.
SAGAFLOR AG
SAGAFLOR AG has been an association of independent garden and pet commercial for almost 50 years.
Not only does it represent a strong purchasing power for its members, it also supplies participants with images for marketing activities that are made available via the extranet.
University of Art in Berlin
The Diathek of the Institute for Art Studies and Aesthetics is available to teachers and students at the Berlin University of the Arts for teaching and research.
As one of the largest artistic universities in Europe, the UdK trains students in more than 40 artistic, artistic-scientific and artistic-educational courses. First-class work materials are a basic requirement.
University of Heidelberg
Heidelberg University is one of the oldest and most renowned universities in the world and, with 30,000 students, twelve faculties and three clusters of excellence, is a leader in almost all areas of teaching and research. The impulse came from art history: a digital library should be introduced, but isolated solutions had to be avoided.
Metrohm AG
The Swiss traditional commercial Metrohm AG is one of the world's leading manufacturers of precision devices for chemical analysis.
A broad portfolio from standard products to complex special applications inevitably includes a mass of image material that must be managed in a structured manner and integrated into business processes.
City of Hanau
The media center of the city of Hanau has an inventory of 350,000 images, dam it one of the largest municipal image archive in Hesse.
In order to streamline internal processes and avoid high upfront costs for research, a sustainable solution should be found to digitally archive the images. When switching to a digital system, numerous detailed questions arose. The choice fell on easydb.archive . You can download the case study as a PDF here.
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