Taking the long view for digital creativity: Scottish Arts Council joins the DPC
The Scottish Arts Council has taken a significant step to securing a lasting legacy from Scotland's digital creativity by joining the Digital Preservation Coalition. In doing so it joins a growing number of strategic bodies and memory institutions taking steps to ensure that digital objects can be accessible to future generation.
'The Scottish Arts Council takes digital preservation seriously', explained Kate Wallace, Senior Research Officer, Scottish Arts Council. 'Preserving a digital legacy for future generations of artists, organisations and the public gives greater access and can inspire learning.'
'The immediate context is a set of projects that we have commissioned with Legacy Trust UK. These are part of the cultural programme of the 2012 Olympics and some of the programme strands will be part of the official Cultural Olympiad. We have been working hard recently on developing and delivering activities for the cultural programmes around the 2012 Olympics and the 2014 Commonwealth Games.'
'Legacy is a critical success factor for this programme,' explained Jaine Lumsden, SAC's 2012 and 2014 development officer. 'We want to be sure that we can deliver an appropriate digital legacy from this programme as part of the wider social, cultural and economic legacy which they need to demonstrate. This programme will be a case study for future programmes.
'The Coalition exists to ensure that our digital memory will be available tomorrow,' explained Richard Ovenden of the Bodleian Library and chair of the DPC. 'Our cultural and scientific creativity is increasingly 'born digital'. While museums, libraries and archives are good at preserving physical objects, there's a serious skills gap and policy gap for long term management of digital objects. By working together, members of the coalition are able to move more quickly to fill these gaps. That way we can protect our investment and provide a digital legacy to future generations.
'We're excited that the Scottish Arts Council has joined the Coalition. It signals their determination to derive maximum impact from emerging technology. Joining the board gives them a significant influence over the development of this core component of the digital economy, and will make their staff more effective.'
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Dr William Kilbride FSA
Executive Director
Digital Preservation Coalition
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http://www.dpconline.org/
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