Dear MCG'ers,
Just a quick note to alert you to some recent updates to the Collections Trust's OpenCulture blog:
Museums, Libraries, Archives and Digital Inclusion
Race Online 2012 is Martha Lane-Fox's initiative to promote engagement with technology by people throughout the UK, and particularly the estimated £10m UK citizens who don't use the web. We are in the process of scoping a national programme to transform the role of museums, archives and libraries to support Digital Inclusion - read more on the blog<http://openculture.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk/2009/10/22/museums-archives-libraries-digital-inclusion/> and contribute to our first ever crowdsourced policy proposal<http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AU8qzL7hzDX4ZGdkNmNxcjhfMWM1ZndnbWRz&hl=en> via Google docs!
Saving NOF Digi
The NOF-Digitise programme funded the creation of tens of thousands of Digital resources, many of which remain available, if a little unloved. The Collections Trust has recently run a petition to encourage people to register their support for a programme of work to unlock the potential of NOF-Digi content by exposing it for harvest, aggregation and re-use. This petition is being shared with Creative Industries Minister Sion Simon following a recent Digital Summit at DCMS - read more about the potential for a national programme to unlock this content<http://openculture.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk/2009/08/27/how-to-save-nof-digi/>.
To Key or not to Key
The Collections Trust has recently launched a series of short videos on our YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/collectionstrust) explaining what the Culture Grid is and how it works. We are now at the point where we need to decide whether to offer completely open access or to require users to register for an API key. Read about the interesting debate about this subject, and contribute your thoughts about API and culture-sector data<http://openculture.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk/2009/10/22/to-key-or-not-to-key/>.
OpenCulture
OpenCulture is a joint programme between the Collections Trust, MLA, Culture24 and UKOLN which celebrates, supports and focuses the huge range of innovative Digital work currently underway in UK museums, archives and libraries. It is an active programme of development, and is structured in response to the Digital Britain report and subsequent initiatives. Do please check in regularly on the OpenCulture blog at http://openculture.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk and have your say!
All best,
Nick
Nick Poole
Chief Executive
Collections Trust
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