Taking a break from struggling with writing a statement of requirements for getting our collections on-line. My answers are below.
Trevor Reynolds
Collections Registrar, English Heritage
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Sent: 17 February 2011 11:40
To: REYNOLDS, Trevor
Subject: Museum, library and archive content and Resource Discovery
Dear colleagues,
I sit on the Advisory Board for something called the 'Resource Discovery Task Force <http://rdtf.jiscinvolve.org/wp/> ' - a cross-industry body that has been asked to look at ways of integrating content from museums, archives and libraries into academic Resource Discovery to support research in the HE/FE sector.
I have posted onto Collections Link the JISC Vision document <http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/index.cfm?ct=assets.assetDisplay/titl
e/JISC%20Vision%20of%20Resource%20Discovery%20Infrastructure/assetId/669
> , which sets out how museum content can be aggregated into the HE/FE
environment and delivered to researchers via the new generation of discovery services. With support from the JISC, the Collections Trust will be working with the RDTF to integrate the Culture Grid <http://www.culturegrid.org.uk/> and Europeana <http://www.europeana.eu/> into this resource discovery infrastructure.
While many eyes are on the Arts Council in their new role for museum policy, it is important to remember that JISC and HE remain an important partner for museums in the digital agenda. To inform my participation in this group, I would really welcome thoughts from the list on the following questions:
1. Is the provision of content (metadata, data and images) in a
proactive way to the HE/FE sector a current priority for your museum?
>Yes [Particularly for archaeological collections] and No. It's a medium level priority for staff who work with the collections but probably low priority at a senior level in the organisation as a whole.
2. How willing is your institution to make the body of your
collections-based information available for aggregation so that it can be shared (for free) with researchers and learners?
> Very willing (in principle)
3. What would prevent you from making Collections data available
to the HE/FE sector in this way?
> Any requirement for new hardware, new software, or which requires internal developer time.
4. What is the most valuable thing we could do to increase the
value for museums of making content available to the HE/FE community?
> Not sure, but if collections info can be made available to HE/FE via the Culture Grid then that would mean we only had one aggregator to worry about.
Please do also comment on the JISC document, either here on the list or via Collections Link or on Twitter (tag #rdtf)
>I'm not sure about the inclusion of "collections management" in the document. That involves a lot of data covered by the data protection act and other sensitive data which I wouldn't want to trust to aggregators.
Many thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Nick
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