This is slightly off-piste...
But one of the things I never understood about the NOF project was that there was never any cross-project aggregation.
We spent months (probably like most people involved in the project) getting our metadata (head tags) right for http://www.ingenious.org.uk, and adhering to what I understood was a NOF-wide standard. The natural next step - and probably not a terribly hard one once all the work had been done by the various projects - would surely have been some aggregation / search?
Not a sausage.
Maybe someone burnt the money, but still a shame. A £15k Google Search Appliance would have done it :-)
cheers
Mike
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of J DAVIS
Sent: 27 June 2011 23:05
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Subject: Re: MCG historical query - criticisms of Culture Online programme?
I'd remembered City Heritage Guides - once I saw them in the list.
They seemed to overlap - quite a lot in some places - with what we were trying to do in the NOF-Digitise Sense of the Place projects that were already well under way or finishing by that time. But it provided more jobs, which is always a good thing, and gathered info in one place where it hasn't vanished, which is A Very Good Thing.
One thing that I think came out of 2000-2005 funding for digital projects in public culture was that it would be good to have better overview and coordination across funding streams for future projects.
Is there an up-to-date list now of all digitisation & digital culture projects? I'm aware that Alastair Dunning put together a NOF-Digi and HLF projects list a while ago.
Janet
--- On Mon, 27/6/11, Bridget McKenzie
> Ah yes, completely forgot Icons. City
> Heritage Guides wasn't in my
> consciousness as a collections-based project.
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