friday lunchtime lecture: unlocking the cultural archives

8/16/2019 Friday lunchtime lecture: Unlocking the cultural archives

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Opening the cultural

archives

Richard Leeming

External Relationship Manager

Research and Education Space.


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If you believe in publicly-funded arts and culture as

I passionately do, then you must also believe in equality

of access, attracting all, and welcoming all.

Rt Hon David Cameron MP

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The Value of Culture #1

Intrinsic/Social


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The Value of Culture #2

£5.4bn -> £26bn


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The future

What we will do

We will commission a report on the key issues to be addressedto make the UK one of the world’s leading countries for

digitised public collections content.


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“There is a general lack of

concerted policy in this

area”

“There is a significant

investment gap reported

between the aspiration

either to promote open

access or commercial

reuse and the extent towhich participating

institutions are able to

invest in capacity,

infrastructure and

promotion to realise theseambitions.”


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“Freezes or real-terms

reductions in budget

allocations to national

museums, archives and

libraries relative to inflation

of between 15-30%”

“Threatened and actual

cuts to Local Authority

budgets for museums andmuseum services, ranging

from 15% to wholesale

withdrawal of investment ”


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“online is increasingly the

frontline for our museums”

Di Lees, Director-General of

the Imperial War Museum


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Test


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Conclusion

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There’s a need for strategic leadership

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There’s a need for technical leadership – esp on standards

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There’s a need for economies of scale/shared resources

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There’s a need for really cool shiny things

But the government is writing a report! we need to make it say the

right thing

£5.4bn

£26bn


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Thank You

http://res.space [email protected]

@RES_Project

friday lunchtime lecture: unlocking the cultural archives

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