Good practice:

CER.ES

The Digital Network of Collections of Museums of Spain brings together museums of different specialties, from various thematic and geographical areas, and of different public and private entitlements, with the aim of making online digital contents accessible on their collections and creating a space for dissemination of knowledge about them. These museums have in common being users of the Integrated Documentation and Domus Museum Management System, developed by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and currently used by 170 museums.
CER.ES (Online Collections) is a collective online catalog that gathers information and images of an important selection of cultural assets that make up the collections of all the museums that make up the Digital Network of Museum Collections in Spain. CER.ES allows general and advanced searches in all museums or in a selection made by the user. It is possible to consult in the catalog of each of the museums or in one or several groups by type of museum, geographical location or ownership.
The National Museum of Sculpture of Valladolid has been in the project since its inception and thanks to this allows virtual visits to its museum, as well as that the pieces of its collection are available for both hobbyists and researchers.

For the specific case of the National Museum of Sculpture of Valladolid.
The Department of Documentation of the MNE is composed of four people: a responsible curator, a museum technician and two photographers.

The DOMUS program at the National Museum of Sculpture includes 27,165 images, of which about 16,500 have been introduced into the program in the last five years. On the other hand, the number of images available on CER.es is also very significant: 8.184.
The average number of visits, taking as data the last two years is:
- 16331 users
- 122022 Page views

Since a cultural asset arrives at the museum until it is digitized and made available to users on the network, the work is not simple, far from it, fast.
The economic resources allocated are scarce compared to the large number of elements that must be implemented in the project.

The more than ten years of experience of this project and its proven effectiveness with respect to usability on the part of the interested public, can serve as a model for other European museums. It is a software tested with great versatility and dynamism and that is updated continuously, adapting quickly to the changes that the web environment and new technologies propose each year.
The training to manage the system is easy for the documentalists who are soon familiar with the method of work. Allows adaptation to other environments and contexts.