The ENUMERATE Survey Report on Digitisation in European Cultural Heritage was carried out in early 2012 by the ENUMERATE Thematic Network. It attracted almost 2,000 responses and was conducted with the assistance of national coordinators in 29 European countries. This report is the first in a series of three to be published in the lifetime of the ENUMERATE project. Later this year there will be an in-depth “thematic” survey followed by a further update next year. It is intended ENUMERATE will continue its work beyond 2014. The report can be downloaded from: www.enumerate.eu/en/statistics. Funding for the project is from the European Commission under the ICT Policy Support Programme part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme.
The 2013 FP7 ICT Work Programme has been published. Follow the link for details of open calls: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/call_FP7#wlp_call_FP7
Digital R&D Fund
The 7 million pound Digital R&D Fund for the Arts has been launched as a partnership between the Arts Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Nesta.The fund is intended to support research and development projects that use digital technology to enhance audience reach and/or explore new business models for organisations with arts projects.Organisations with arts projects, Technology providers and Researchers or research teams are invited to form collaborative relationships and make joint funding applications. You can find out about the fund, eligibility criteria and deadlines for expressions of interest for the fund here: http://www.artsdigitalrnd.org.uk/
Google Cultural Institute
Google has announced the launch of its new Google Cultural Institute platform, designed to provide cultural institutions with tools to open up collections online to new audiences. The platform launches with online exhibits from 17 cultural heritage institutions around the world. I had the opportunity of doing an email I
Interview with Google Institute Director Steve Crossan at http://www.collectionstrust.org.uk/googleinstitute/. The Collections Trust is going to be working with Steve and the team at the Google Cultural Institute to look at how to ensure that the process of participating is as smooth and risk-free as possible.
The first fully-syndicated site based on the platform is live at http://archives.nelsonmandela.org/#!home. The idea is that the platform can enable partners to set up their own web-based offer, using the same content and functionality from the core GCI platform, but under their own URL. This opens up the possibility of developing standalone thematic exhibitions from your digital content,with Google doing the heavy lifting in terms of data hosting.
Cultural venues and Mobile App Development Links
David Hopes, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust - https://vimeo.com/49898316
Ben Templeton talking about TATE Magic Ball - https://vimeo.com/44525319
Hein Wils + Ferry Piekart talking about Augmented Reality - https://vimeo.com/48732926
Nancy Proctor, Smithsonian - https://vimeo.com/44404225
Allegra Burnette on MoMA mobile strategy - https://vimeo.com/44523457
Comparison of Online Collections Databases
http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/softwaresurvey
- Europeana & Culture Grid: aggregate data about items from other organisations (the items have to already have to be on the web somewhere else).
- Modes Users Association: sell and support collections management systems which can output content for use on a web site.
- Orangeleaf: website developers who will build you whatever you want.
- Historypin is a social media site.
- E-Hive: a "cloud" collections management system for museums and others which will, if you want, allow public web access to object records.
Digital Engagement Framework
This offers a framework for cultural organisations to use as a basis for the development of digital strategies, and is based on experience running workshops and developing strategies for museums, galleries, theatres and festivals over the past few years. The workbook can be downloaded here: http://www.digitalengagementframework.com/framework.html
How to Manage Knowledge and Info Not Directly Related to Objects
London's Information Policy Toolkit - see: http://www.museuminforecords.org.uk/toolkits/InformationPolicy.pdf
Produced in the late stages of the MLA, there were plans to take it forward as the companion to SPECTRUM for broader knowledge and information management (lack of resources prevented this).
Archival Encounters III
Presentations from the evening are now available online at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/heritage/index.html
Futurelearn
As was announced in December 2012, the University of Leeds is a launch partner in FutureLearn, the OU-led Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform. For background information about FutureLearn, see the following links:
University Press Release (December 2012): http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/3345/leeds_joins_partners_in_offering_free_online_access_to_education
University of Leeds For Staff update (February 2013): http://www.leeds.ac.uk/forstaff/news/article/3753/six_new_partners_join_futurelearn
FutureLearn website: http://futurelearn.com/
Resources
Books
Benkler, Y. 2006. The wealth of networks: How social production transforms markets and freedom. Yale University Press.
Brabazon, T. 2008. The Revolution Will Not be Downloaded. Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd.
Shirky, C. 2010. Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. London: Allen Lane.
Tredinnick, L. 2008. Digital Information Culture: The individual and society in the digital age. Oxford: Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd.
Weinberger, D. 2012. Too Big to Know. Basic Books.
Journal Articles
Anderson, I.G. 2008. Necessary but Not Sufficient. D-Lib Magazine, 14(1/2). Available at: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january08/anderson/01anderson.html
Anderson, S.R. & Allen, R.B. 2009. Envisioning the Archival Commons. American Archivist, 72(2), pp.383–400.
Evans, M.J. 2007. Archives of the People, by the People, for the People. American Archivist, 70(2), pp.387–400.
Flinn, A. 2010. “An attack on professionalism and scholarship”?: Democratising Archives and the Production of Knowledge.Ariadne, 62. Available at: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue62/flinn/
Hinton, A. ‘The Machineries of Context.’ Journal of Information Architecture, 1(1), pp.37–47. Available at: http://journalofia.org/volume1/issue1/04-hinton/jofia-0101-04-hinton.pdf
Huvila, I. 2008. Participatory archive: towards decentralised curation, radical user orientation, and broader contextualisation of records management. Archival Science, 8(1), pp.15–36.
Kennedy, M. 2009. Cautionary Tales: Archives 2.0 and the Diplomatic Historian. Ariadne, 61. Available at: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue61/kennedy/
Oomen, J. & Aroyo, L. 2011. Crowdsourcing in the Cultural Heritage Domain: Opportunities and Challenges - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T 2011), Brisbane, Australia, p. 138. Available at: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~marieke/OomenAroyoCT2011.pdf
Rosenzweig, R. 2006. Can history be open source? Wikipedia and the future of the past. Journal of American History, 93(1), pp.117–146.
Theimer, K. 2011. What Is the Meaning of Archives 2.0? American Archivist, 74(1), pp.58–68.
Blogs
Chan, S. Fresh and New(er) http://www.freshandnew.org/
Hitchcock, T. Historyonics http://historyonics.blogspot.co.uk/
Prescott, A. Digital Riffs http://digitalriffs.blogspot.co.uk/
Sherratt, T. discontents http://discontents.com.au/
Theimer, K. ArchivesNext http://www.archivesnext.com/
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