Thanks Jon,
We've tried to cover non-technological aspects as well, but of course these are often the more complex areas and difficult to tackle in the type of guide we are creating which tries to be pithy in its advice. Some advice touches on areas of management and strategy, but we are pointing at possible approaches and examples of where it has (in our view) 'worked' rather than giving advice (for example) on how to make a collaboration a success - which we hand off to more in depth work such as the Culture24 work mentioned by Anra, or the Jisc Developing Community Collections infokit http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/infokits/community_content/
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On 10 Feb 2014, at 13:13, Jon Pratty <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Owen
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> I'm also interested in how discoverability of online collections can be enhanced; I'm keen to find out more about the basics from the point of view of smaller and middle-scale cultural organisations. This may be less about a technological approach, and more about the politics of joining collections, or the educational, content or audience-led reasons for doing so. While lots of museums have lots of stuff, what choices do they face about making their holdings relate to objects in other places, in other sectors, and so on?
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> Great thread, anyway!
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> Subject: [MCG] Cross-organisation collaborations around digital collections
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> 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.
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> For each thing recommended I try to include:
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thanks
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> Owen
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