COLLECTIONS TRUST, HUBS and the DIGITAL AGENDA

23.09.09

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About the Collections Trust

Digital Priorities

OpenCulture

Culture Grid

About the Collections Trust

Digital Priorities

OpenCulture

Culture Grid

Campaigning for the public right to access and engage with collections by:

•Promoting best practice•Encouraging innovation•Working with the sector

Campaigning for the public right to access and engage with collections by:

•Promoting best practice•Encouraging innovation•Working with the sector

Our role...Our role...

CollectionsCollections LawLaw

CommerceCommerce TechnologyTechnology

KnowledgeKnowledgeConsumersConsumersCollections

Trust

Develop an excellent, sustainable enterpriseDevelop an excellent, sustainable enterpriseCollections Trust

Support & connect the Collections Management community

Support & connect the Collections Management community

Collections Link

Connect People and CollectionsConnect People and CollectionsOpen Culture

Our Digital Priorities...Our Digital Priorities...

Moving from online publishing to broadcast of digital content

From mass digitisation to informed content creation

From funding to Public/Private Partnership

From Copyright to Collective Licensing

From strategy to creativity

Moving from online publishing to broadcast of digital content

From mass digitisation to informed content creation

From funding to Public/Private Partnership

From Copyright to Collective Licensing

From strategy to creativity

OpenCultureOpenCulture

Looking to a future of more open, democratic approaches to Culture

Includes several key projects:

•Culture Grid

•Open Business

•Copyright & Licensing

•Revisiting Collections

Culture GridCulture Grid

Museums, libraries and archives are using technology in a huge variety of creative & innovative ways.

We are increasingly generating content capable of holding its own against the best consumer offerings.

The purpose of the Culture Grid is to advertise this content to mainstream audiences, and to drive them to your sites, by working in partnership with established media providers such as the BBC and Google.

The Culture Grid is just infrastructure – it has no website, mandates no particular standard (although OAI would be nice) and has no view on the quality of the content.

Culture Grid Applications: Hosted Search Culture Grid Applications: Hosted Search

Enabling any user to create their own parameter search (of their own collections, other people’s collections, institution details etc).

Providing a code snippet to embed a high-performance, faceted search into your site or service.

Developing Software Dev Kits for the main Collections Management Systems

Providing Open API to enable you to repurpose the content

Culture Grid Applications: Data Hosting Culture Grid Applications: Data Hosting

Hosting large datasets

Hosting rich media

Working with partners to deliver hosted digital preservation

Developing a low-cost web hosting offer

Working towards Cloud-based hosting solutions

Culture Grid Applications: BBC CenturyShare Culture Grid Applications: BBC CenturyShare

Flash-based interactive timeline

Embedding cultural content alongside BBC Archive footage

Currently an internal BBC pilot for evaluation

Culture Grid and the Hubs Culture Grid and the Hubs

An opportunity to promote your content (both Renaissance-funded and other)

Also contributing to Europeana, which will be a requirement of future EU Digitisation funding

Technical & introductory information:

http://www.collectionstrust.org.uk/culturegrid

Also register to receive an email alert when guidance on contributing Grid content is available on Collections Link.

Thank you!Thank you!

Laura WhittonNetworks OfficerCollections Trust

www.collectionstrust.org.ukwww.collectionslink.org.ukhttp://openculture.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk

Twitter: www.twitter.com/collectiontrust (#collectionstrust)

Laura WhittonNetworks OfficerCollections Trust

www.collectionstrust.org.ukwww.collectionslink.org.ukhttp://openculture.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk

Twitter: www.twitter.com/collectiontrust (#collectionstrust)