The University of Applied Arts Vienna is one of the world's most renowned educational institutions for design studies 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 science, art education or restoration depend on high-quality image material with a powerful zoom...

With the online archive on Bremen's regional history, the Center for Media of the Bremen State Institute for Schools (LIS) is expanding its services. The central task of the LIS is to promote and support schools and educational institutions in the state of Bremen. To facilitate access to the image and film archive, LIS relies on the web-based software solution easydb. The entire stock, which consists of 400,000 analog and 20,000 digital images as well as about 3,500 films, is now being successively digitized and transferred to the online archive. In this way, Bremen's history in images and films can be researched and browsed online in the future.

The slide library of the Institute of Art History and Aesthetics is available to teachers and students of the Berlin University of the Arts for teaching and research. As one of the largest art universities in Europe, the UdK trains students in more than 40 artistic, artistic-scientific and artistic-pedagogical courses. First-class working materials are a basic requirement here.

kuniweb is the name of the web-based data collection for preserving institutions, with which an important step towards cooperative collaboration has been achieved. The project was initiated by the GBV's central office and realized with 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.

The University of Applied Arts Vienna is one of the world's most renowned educational institutions for design studies 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 science, art education or restoration depend on high-quality image material with a powerful zoom...

Stadtmarketing Mannheim GmbH has been promoting the positive image of the metropolis in northern 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 makes images available for non-commercial use in connection with Mannheim as a location and its external presentation.

Heidelberg University is one of the oldest and most renowned universities in the world. With 30,000 students, twelve faculties and three clusters of excellence, it is a leader in almost all areas of teaching and research. The impetus came from art history: A digital slide library was to be introduced, and it was important to avoid isolated solutions.

The media center of the city of Hanau has a stock of 350,000 images, making it one of the largest municipal image archives in Hesse. In order to streamline internal processes and eliminate high upfront costs for research, a future-proof solution was to be found to archive the images digitally. Numerous detailed questions arose during the conversion to a digital system. The choice fell on easydb.archive. You can download the case study as a pdf here.