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The documentation of museum collections is an integral part of the collection itself and therefore a part of the cultural heritage of a society. Many museums have succeeded in integrating paper-based documentation to databases. Given the often far-fetching history of the collections it is obvious that long-term archiving of electronic data is fundamental for the museums. The use of Open Formats on the data level and Open Source Software on the application level is an approved strategy for attaining this goal.