Owen,
You might want to chck this out:
http://www.balboapark.org/bpoc/blog/balboa-park-commons-launches-more-20000-digitized-materials-seven-san-diego-museums#.UvhglfldWSo
Rich
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> 1. Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections
> 2. Seeking sound walk advice
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> Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 11:02:31 +0000
> From: Owen Stephens <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections
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> I'm currently writing a web resource about improving 'discoverability' of
> digital collections as part of a Jisc project. The resource is meant to
> give small pieces of 'actionable' advice looking at a wide range of aspects
> - SEO, UX, metadata schemas, data formats, APIs, collaboration with others
> etc. etc. The things being recommended are based on looking at a range of
> digitisation/digital collection projects have done successfully.
>
> For each thing recommended I try to include:
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> How it can help improve discoverability
> A broad idea of cost
> Skills/knowledge required
> What relevant measures of success might be
> Real life examples
> Links to more information
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> I'm looking for some help on one of the recommendations, which is to
> "Collaborate with partner organisations (e.g. schools, museums, other HE
> institutions) to exploit your digitised content". An example of this is how
> the Royal Maritime Museum and the University of Cambridge have collaborated
> on the Board of Longitude Archive - with Cambridge hosting the archive, and
> the Royal Maritime Museum contributing material, expertise and
> building/promoting classroom resource packs which draw on the archive
> materials.
>
> I'd be interested in other examples of collaborations around digital
> collections if anyone can supply them. However, what I'm really struggling
> to find is any more information I can link to that might guide institutions
> interested in embarking on collaborations of this type. If anyone has
> pointers on examples, or guides to, or papers/articles on, starting and
> making a success of such collaborations then I'd be very interested.
> Generally I'm trying to link to freely available online resources for
> further information.
>
> Thanks
>
> Owen
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> Owen Stephens
> Owen Stephens Consulting
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> Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 22:57:40 +0000
> From: Andrew Stuck <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Seeking sound walk advice
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> Dear All
>
> Many thanks, for the various suggestions - I have collated them in the
> attached. Apologies if I have overlooked a suggestion, just send me a
> reminder, and if you have any further suggestions, then do send them in to
> me.
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> Best, Andrew
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