what do we want from online collections? - uk museums on the web 2012
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Keynote presentation from the annual UK Museums on the Web conference - Nov, 2012. What can museums achieve by putting their collections online? What channels can the content be distributed on? How can they encourage sharing and engagement with their content? How can online collections provide more transparency around museum operations? How can the success of collections online be mesasured?TRANSCRIPT
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Paul Rowe
CEO, Vernon SystemsUK Museums on the Web 2012
30th Nov 2012, London
What do we want from
online collections?
South Auckland c. 1870http://www.aucklandartgallery.com/the-collection/browse-artwork/7268/south-auckland-landscape
My office
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Content
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Collections aren’t just objects, they represent knowledge
http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/media/
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Catalogue records will never be perfect
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/103443
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Share what you have
Owaka Museum in New Zealand publishes all of their 6,800 records and images online
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Owaka Museum: 75,000 page views per year
http://www.nzmuseums.co.nz/account/3021
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Channels
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http://pinterest.com/aucklandmuseum
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http://wellcomebrains.tumblr.com/
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Engagement
Wow, the lady in the back row in the middle is my great, great, great grandma!! This is Jeremiah Callaghan from Boherbue,
Cork, Ireland. Buried in the Southern Cemetery, Dunedin (Callahan). Married to Jemima McLeod from Wick, Scotland. Lived 4km south of Owaka on the lake with his son John and Jeremiah. Striatic on Flickr
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Re-use
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Consider licences which encourage re-usePowerhouse Museum: Creative Commons
licensed photo collection
http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2009/papers/bray/bray.html
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Copyright is complex – publishing just the data is still worth it
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/shapiro-woman-shielding-her-child-p06558
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Sharing data through programming interfaces
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Dire wolf skulls at George C. Page Museum © Pyry MatikainenWikimedia Commons / CC-By-SA 2.5
Transparency
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Clear details about deaccessioning
http://www.imamuseum.org/art/collections/artwork/teapot--15
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http://dmadashboard.org/
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Metrics
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikenan1/1992831000 By Mikenan1 - CC-By-NC-ND 2.0
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Statistics to help us better direct our resources
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Wonder
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http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/
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Make it, share it,learn from it, make it better
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Thank you
Paul RoweVernon Systems@armchair_caver