Museums, Galleries and Digitisation:
Current best practice and recommendations on measuring impact
A new report from the Scottish Museums Council (SMC) entitled 'Museums, Galleries and Digitisation:
Current best practice and recommendations on measuring impact' has identified a simple checklist that museums and galleries can use to ensure that their digitisation of collections is as effective as possible.
The publication of this report marks the culmination of research commissioned by SMC into measuring the impact that digitisation projects in Scottish museums have had on their target user groups. During the research we set out to highlight case studies that represent current best practice in user impact, and to identify the common success factors that characterise them.
The findings have been translated into a set of recommendations for museums. These illustrate practical ways in which museums can ensure that digitisation projects will have the best chance of making a positive impact on end users, and that this impact can be properly measured, evaluated and communicated.
Summary and full versions of the report are available to download from the SMC web site, and the summary report is also available as a hard copy. The full version includes more information about our methodology, detailed case studies, and an extensive analysis of the findings.
You can download both reports from this URL:
http://www.scottishmuseums.org.uk/members_services/ICT/digitisation.asp
If you would like a hard copy of the summary report, please contact Helen Raine at SMC on 0131 476 8456.
If you would like to discuss any of the issues raised in the report, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me.
Best regards,
Dylan
Dylan Edgar
ICT Adviser
0131 476 8457
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Scottish Museums Council
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