In a joint project of the University of Basel and the Zentrum Paul Klee, with SINAR acting as the technology partner, a selection of about 2000 paintings, drawings and other archival material as well as 2000 photographic reproducetions (“Ektachromes”) have been digitized with the SINAR digital camera system. The goals to fulfill were• the capturing of high quality pictures with faithful color reproduction• the setting up of an efficient workflow• the definition of metadata and the construction of an image database,• including the long-term archiving of the digital images.