Good question!
A few years ago when I worked at the Museum of London the museum agreed to
a large born-digital donation from the London Sound Survey, so there is
interest from museums, and it can happen. As with any possible donation
there are a lot of factors for museums to consider - from a relevance and
resource perspective. I can't speak for the specific example you mentioned
but many museums are learning to deal with born-digital material as
accessioned parts of the collection, and there are questions for every
museum around how best to approach digital preservation. Licensing of
content is very important too of course, and works differently from the
process at the British Library.
At the London Transport Museum at the moment our born-digital collecting
must satisfy the same criteria as any other acquisition in terms of the
collecting policy, although it needn't relate directly to specific objects
already within the collection. Mia is right that for a museum like the
London Transport Museum we would need to know the creator of a born-digital
object, so that we could agree a license to copy, preserve and display it.
I don't think we've been offered any big collections of born-digital
objects at this museum yet, but hopefully the work the team have been doing
with born digital collecting projects will mean we are set up to respond
when it does happen!
Best wishes,
Ellie
*Ellie Miles*
*Contemporary Collecting Curator*
Collections Department
London Transport Museum
39 Wellington Street
London
WC2E 7BB
Direct line: 020 7565 7433 ex.2254
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On 27 November 2015 at 15:52, Mia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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 <
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> > 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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