Development and Implementation of Lithuanian Integral Museum Information System (LIMIS) in Lithuanian Museums

Start Date: 1 March, 2010
End Date: 31 August, 2012
Duration: 30 months  

The aim of this project is to create and subsequently to implement the Lithuanian Integral Museum Information System (LIMIS) in country's national and republic museums. It will integrate Lithuanian museums' databases into a common information system and ensure the maintenance and development of the LIMIS electronic catalogue. It will also provide means for digitisation of museums valuables and for development of full-text databases, and ensure the search tools for seeking information about Lithuanian museums' holdings.

Development of Virtual Electronic Heritage System (VEPS)  

Start Date: 3 February, 2010
End Date: 31 July, 2012
Duration: 30 months
Project Coordinator: Skirmantė Kvietkauskienė, the head of LM IDC LIMIS Digitisation Department  

The aim of the project is to maintain the virtual electronic heritage system and, by doing so, to ensure the continuity in the development and spread of the digitised content of Lithuanian cultural heritage.
Project executor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania.
Project Partners: Kaunas District Municipal Public Library; Klaipeda County I.Simonaityte Public Library; Lithuanian Archive Department; Lithuanian Art Museum; The Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences; Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Cinema Museum; Panevezys County Gabriele Petkevicaitė-Bite Public Library; Siauliai County Povilas Visinskis Public Library; Vilnius University Library.

Skills Training Programme for Museum Staff Working in Exhibit Digitisation Field  

Start Date: 1 March, 2010
End Date: 25 November, 2010
Project Manager: Danutė Mukienė,  the head of Lithuanian Museums' Centre for Information, Digitisation and LIMIS  

The aims of the project are: to attract more specialists from Lithuanian museums to join exhibits digitisation process; to make an opportunity for them to properly prepare for automated stocktaking and digitisation of exhibits (i.e. take pictures of exhibits, scan and automatically stock take); to provide internet users with an opportunity to obtain more information about the valuable objects of the Lithuanian cultural heritage that are preserved in the Lithuanian museums, and so make them interested in country's cultural heritage and prompt to visit exhibitions; to encourage groups that develop cultural heritage information systems to cooperate in the field of classifiers, thesauri, dictionaries of persons names and keywords, and to create better circumstances for them to exchange information.