That's a really interesting question! I wonder if museums are reluctant to
accept born-digital collections that don't relate to their own physical
collections, might require additional resources to maintain, or were
created by persons unknown?
In the meantime, hopefully the site has been archive by archive.org and the
British Library's UK Web Archive. If not, he can add it via
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/info/nominate and https://archive.org/web/
Cheers, Mia
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On 25 November 2015 at 10:36, Tanya Gray Jones <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:
> Yesterday I visited the wonderful Oxford University Museum of Natural
> History and enjoyed a behind the scenes tour looking at items in the Hope
> Entomological Collections. We were told about provenance of the collection
> and its historical and scientific value.
>
> Later in the day I came across an extensive 'born digital' collection of
> images with associated metadata of wild species and natural history
> objects, that together form a virtual field guide to UK biodiversity:
> http://www.bioimages.org.uk/.
>
> I asked the creator of the collection, Malcolm Storey, if he had
> considered donating the collection to a museum at some point, and he said
> that from his experience there was little interest in an image collection.
>
> I'm not sure if this is the appropriate forum but I am interested in
> people's thoughts on the donation of 'born digital' collections to museums.
> Would the donation of a 'born digital' collection be of interest to a
> museum? Also, specifically, are there any organisations that might be
> interested in accepting the BioImages database at some point, that could
> perhaps contact Malcolm to discuss?
>
> thank you
> Tanya
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