Dear MCG'ers,
A number of people have recently been discussing the possibility of investing in the legacy of digital content produced by the New Opportunities Fund Digitisation programme (NOF-digi) to consolidate it, refresh it and bring it to a wider audience.
Although a recent JISC Digitisation funding application in this area was unsuccessful, it seems that we may have a political ally in the person of Sion Simon, Creative Industries Minister at DCMS. Sion has recently taken an interest in the issue of public collections online and is aligned with the emerging open content lobby in Whitehall.
It would be really useful to have some indication of the appetite in the MCG community for investing in bringing the NOF-digi content back to life. I have therefore put a petition online at:
http://www.petitiononline.com/savedigi/
It only takes a few seconds to register your name as a signatory, so if this is something you feel strongly about, please do sign up.
Yours sincerely,
Nick
Nick Poole
Chief Executive
Collections Trust
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