Hi Owen
This is really interesting - I'm running an ACE-funded project at the moment with the aim of embedding the use of digital collections content into learning and teaching for KS2&3 children and their teachers. Our project, Connecting Collections, is a partnership between Culture24, Collections Trust and Culture Street and Trinity College's Arts Award, plus a range of museums. There's an overview here: http://weareculture24.org.uk/projects/connecting-collections/
A key factor in the project's success or otherwise will of course be the discoverability of the content so it'd be good to talk!
All the best, Anra
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Subject: [MCG] Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections
I'm currently writing a web resource about improving 'discoverability' of digital collections as part of a Jisc project. The resource is meant to give small pieces of 'actionable' advice looking at a wide range of aspects - SEO, UX, metadata schemas, data formats, APIs, collaboration with others etc. etc. The things being recommended are based on looking at a range of digitisation/digital collection projects have done successfully.
For each thing recommended I try to include:
How it can help improve discoverability
A broad idea of cost
Skills/knowledge required
What relevant measures of success might be Real life examples Links to more information
I'm looking for some help on one of the recommendations, which is to "Collaborate with partner organisations (e.g. schools, museums, other HE institutions) to exploit your digitised content". An example of this is how the Royal Maritime Museum and the University of Cambridge have collaborated on the Board of Longitude Archive - with Cambridge hosting the archive, and the Royal Maritime Museum contributing material, expertise and building/promoting classroom resource packs which draw on the archive materials.
I'd be interested in other examples of collaborations around digital collections if anyone can supply them. However, what I'm really struggling to find is any more information I can link to that might guide institutions interested in embarking on collaborations of this type. If anyone has pointers on examples, or guides to, or papers/articles on, starting and making a success of such collaborations then I'd be very interested. Generally I'm trying to link to freely available online resources for further information.
Thanks
Owen
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