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24 Hour Museum sector rebuild consultation

24 Hour Museum sector rebuild consultation David Dawson Head of Digital Futures Netful of Jewels The new network will be a personal cultural medium for the age of personal learning.

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24 Hour Museum sector rebuild consultation

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  1. 24 Hour Museumsector rebuild consultation David Dawson Head of Digital Futures

  2. Netful of Jewels • The new network will be a personal cultural medium for the age of personal learning. • People want museums to provide collection related information and they want interactive, participative services, too. Both are essential to the digital museum. • Museum resources of all kinds must be linked to those from libraries, archives, universities and other arts, humanities and science institutions worldwide.

  3. 24 Hour Museum • new funding from DfES, through MLA to develop as a ‘cultural sector broker’ • search service to enable teachers and schools to more easily find out about educational opportunities offered to them by cultural sector organisations • enable teachers to find out the education resources that are available to them from the cultural sector, such as online content, educational workshops and visits to exhibitions • open source, open standards • able to support web services / Web 2.0

  4. Cultural Sector Broker • what does this mean? • how could we create it? • we have many components already … • 24 Hour Museum • Cornucopia • MICHAEL • People’s Network Discover Service • A2A , Archives Hub etc • plus ???

  5. Separating information and presentation

  6. Cornucopia • online database of museum collections • system for collection descriptions – different interfaces for different user communities • Cecilia – music libraries • Inspire – cross-sectoral library collections • Subject SpecialistNetworks • Egyptology

  7. MICHAEL • Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage now 14 countries across EU • European portal in development • digital collections • websites • online learning resources • databases • CD / DVDs the ‘missing bit’ of a collections description service that complements Cornucopia

  8. People’s Network Discover Service • harvests other databases (OAI, web services) • MICHAEL and Cornucopia • PAS, BL Collect Britain, Fitzwilliam • more to come - a condition of Renaissance / Designation Funding • being used as basis for other projects • 20th Century London • NE ‘Single Point of Access’ • access to object / item level content

  9. Mad? – cultural sector content

  10. Putting the components together Presentation services Editorial Middleware Events Collectiondescriptionservices Venueinformation Enquiryservice Object level records Exhibitions e-Learningresources

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