The Memory Network

The Memory Network is a multi-disciplinary enterprise that brings together researchers, authors and artists, and organisations to provoke and fuel original thinking about memory in the twenty-first century. It is led by the University of Roehampton and Durham University and is funded by the AHRC: http://www.thememorynetwork.net/

TEDx Eutropolois talk on Museums & Digital Libraries now on Collections Link

TEDx Eutropolis talk on Europeana,digital libraries and 'Stories worth Sharing', now up at http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/blog/2029-stories-worth-sharing

'The Responsive Museum', looking at how museums are designing user-centric services which blend technology and collections, at http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/blog/2012-responsivemuseum

Digi-meeting with Paul Wheatley - 29 Aug 2013

BL contacts (for interview): 

Neil Fitzgerald
Richard Davies
Adam Farquhar

4-Layer Model for thinking about Digital Preservation:

1. Intellectual content
2. Data
3. Software
4. Hardware

(Museums have a different object-based approach to thinking about preservation, largely influenced by the importance that's historically been placed material culture. If there's only one model of a computer in the science museum, curators won't risk switching it on to access potential intellectual content for fear that the physical object will be damaged).

Digital Preservation Resources - discussing the aims of digital preservation

James Newman - '(Not) Playing Games: Player-Produced Walkthroughs as Archival Documents of Digital Gameplay':
http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/186 

Doron Swade: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/CCS/res/res01.htm#f

Analysis of Current Digital Preservation Policies: Archives, Libraries and Museums

New post on the Library of Congress blog by Madeline Sheldon highlighting the results of her research into Digital Preservation Policies in libraries and museums around the world.The research focuses on c. 30 institutions, including several in the UK, US and New Zealand:

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/08/analysis-of-current-digital-preservation-policies-archives-libraries-and-museums/

The organisations under review are chiefly large national organisations with a mandate for large-scale preservation, but the research provides links to published policies which are a useful reference for smaller museums and libraries too.

The 1709 Blog: Life after Google Books (non)Settlement - a speculative post

The 1709 Blog: Life after Google Books (non)Settlement - a speculative post

AnthropoNet

Digitizing, preserving, and making accessible audiovisual archives, in particular ethnographic elements or filmed meetings, constitute the first mission of human and social sciences researchers and museums. 

AnthropoNet wants to go beyond this, allowing new forms of publishing that are open to public input and contributions.The basic goal of this project is to exploit digital tools and practices to organize, conserve and diffuse corpuses and digitized resources from human and social science research, in order to permit:

•  The validation of research results
•  An electronic version as well as exchanges between professionals and amateurs
•  The conception and realization of multimedia digital productions
•  Cultural mediation in exhibitions and museums.

More info available here: http://www.iri.centrepompidou.fr/projets/a-traduire-en-en_us-anthroponet/?lang=en_us

#AllezCulture: Nick Poole Speech - 21 June 2013

Collections Trust CEO Nick Poole was invited to address the @Europeanaeu event at Dublin Castle as part of the Irish Presidency of the EU. The full transcipt of his address is provided here:

http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/discover/new-perspectives/1946-allezc