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The "Bildarchiv Foto Marburg" in the Art History Department of the Philipps-University Marburg (Germany) was founded in 1913 with the aim of collecting pictorial material for art historical research. Having been designated by the German Council for the Sciences as the Federal German Center for the Documentation of Art History, it is publishing for many years photographs of works of art on microfiche, above all the "Marburger Index - Inventory of Art in Germany". Moreover, for the indexing of the photographic sources the Bildarchiv has developed the information system MIDAS (the Marburg Information, Documentation and Administration System), which allows with its integrated database system HIDA (Hierarchical Information and Documentation Administrator) structuring of art historical information with the aid of electronic data processing. On this basis some cooperative projects for cataloguing of works of art have been carried out, and as a result a regular data-exchange between the participants, several art historical institutions in Germany and some European neighbour countries, has been established. The common database and the cooperative information system called DISKUS (Digital Information System for Art and Social History) are still extending and offer some products, such as series of illustrated museum catalogues on CD-ROM.
The following article explains the history of the Bildarchiv Foto Marburg and describes its information system, projects, publications and other activities. The most fascinating of these projects could be the pilot project of the image database "BKA" in World Wide Web. (A translation from Fritz Laupichler's "Fotografien, Microfiches, MIDAS und DISKUS: Das Bildarchiv Foto Marburg als "Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum fiir
unstgeschichte," in: Im Bann der Medien: Ein elektronisches Handbuch, edited by Kai-Uwe Hemken, Weimar: Verlag und Datenbank fiir Geisteswissenschaften, 1997. This article is a revised and enlarged version of the author's essay "Photographs, Microfiches, MIDAS, and DISKUS: The Bildarchiv Foto Marburg as German Center for the Documentation of Art History", in: Visual Resources, 12, 1996, pp. 157-176.)
