Through Museum Thorn, Sofco was brought into contact with HKL, the 'Limburg House for the Arts' in Roermond. Here they met Wouter Daemen. From the 'House of the Arts Limburg' he has been working as a digital heritage coach since September 2019.
Together with fellow heritage coaches elsewhere in the country, he belongs to the organization NDE (Network Digital Heritage). Organizations in the field of culture, heritage, education and research together form the Digital Heritage Network. NDE works with heritage software suppliers, provinces and municipalities to implement the National Strategy for Digital Heritage, supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
Wouter informed Sofco about NDE's strategy, about DERA, the Digital Heritage Reference Architecture and about which advanced functionalities in a collection registration system are needed to meet the future requirements of museums and heritage institutions. Through Wouter, Sofco ended up with his enthusiastic colleagues who devised and developed these functions/parts. With the help of a short explanation and an extensive manual, Sofco's people were able to get started. The challenge was to integrate these functionalities into KLEKSI in such a way that the user-friendliness is not lost. The deadline: in any case before November 4, because then KLEKSI will be introduced for the first time at other museums, namely at the 'Museum Vakdagen fair' in Rijswijk. To be continued...
