Hi Mia,
Thanks for this. I was sorry to miss UKMW this year, so your notes are very helpful.
On your final point, the Collections Trust could potentially be interested in providing access to something like Amazon S3 space for the storage of cultural content if people felt this were useful. Is there a demand for this sort of thing?
One of the reasons we are looking at this is the realisation that using a utility/cloud-based approach (pace Mike Ellis) has the potential to take a lot of the headache out of the implementation of backend repositories for things like the Peoples Network Discover Service and Europeana.
Are any museums already using S3 (or variants) as an alternate to locally-based or co-located server hosting?
Nick
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Subject: Your thoughts post-'UK Museums on the web'?
There were lots of interesting ideas at UK Museums on the web - I was
wondering if anyone had notes or other comments they'd like to share? I
know I only end up talking to the people I already know at conference,
and it's always nice to see them, but I'd love to hear from others too.
I've blogged my notes at
http://openobjects.blogspot.com/search/label/ukmw08 but there was so
much to take in that I probably missed some really good points.
I also came across this blog post
(http://frommelbin.blogspot.com/2008/05/preservation-web-20-and-chamber.
html) by Mal Booth and thought it might be relevant in the light of Ross
Parry's closing comments about changes in leadership in the sector,
digital projects and the role of the MCG.
"I am certainly a keen advocate for social networking and going beyond
"metadata" and traditional forms of museology, but there is something
more fundamental to do before that kind of "window-dressing" becomes the
top priority. We still need to be developing and interpreting
fundamental digital collection content.
Some of my colleagues attended the first national Summit on Digital
Collections in Adelaide in 2006, but despite a draft National Framework
being circulated, not much has since changed. So what we have are some
words on a page, but no music yet and certainly no instruments to play
it with.
What do we need now? I believe we need some kind of national centre of
excellence that is capable of encouraging us in the digitisation of
cultural materials. But it should also provide research, advice, and
facilitate collaboration, cooperation and training. Perhaps it could
also coordinate a shared digital repository service (like CAN
<http://www.collectionsaustralia.net/> ) for the poorer institutions who
cannot afford their own digital storage."
cheers, Mia
Mia Ridge
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