Dear colleagues,
Following our recent colloquium at the Natural History Museum on the ODI/NESTA Culture & Heritage Open Data Challenge, the Collections Trust has developed a proposal called the Open Cultural Data Platform, building on our existing work with the Culture Grid (www.culturegrid.org.uk<http://www.culturegrid.org.uk>).
In summary, the problem we are aiming to address is that, while many museums & cultural organisations have published data (collections, venue or otherwise) openly for re-use, these datasets remain hard to find and use for developers and creatives.
The proposal is to develop the Culture Grid into a new service offering, in effect, a 'Cultural Heritage Sourceforge' - providing a single platform which enables developers to discover, access, use and improve open cultural heritage datasets. It very much builds on the initial proposal for the Culture Grid, but focuses more emphatically on encouraging creative re-use and new applications, rather than on providing a single search interface for the public.
The initial draft proposal is now live on Collabfinder, and we would be interested in finding potential collaborators, or indeed in getting your views on the proposal. You can view it and comment online via http://collabfinder.com/project/1136/open-cultural-data-platform.
With many thanks in advance for your participation or comments on this proposal.
All best,
Nick
PS Loving the 'is web accessibility still a thing' discussion!!
Nick Poole
Chief Executive
Collections Trust
Tel: +44 (0)20 7942 6080
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