Collections Trust secures EUR8m investment to share Collections online

April 20th, 2012 | Posted by admin in Collections Link | Collections Management | EU Projects | Europe | European Digitisation - (1 Comments)

The Collections Trust has secured major European Commission investment in projects worth a total of €8m to help museums, archives and libraries share their collections online safely and sustainably. (more…)

Petition to include Cultural Heritage in EU HORIZON 2020 programme

February 12th, 2012 | Posted by admin in Collections Link | Collections Management | Consultation | Europe | Nick Poole - (1 Comments)

The Collections Trust is supporting a petition to encourage the European Commission to reinstate Cultural Heritage as a priority in the 8th Framework HORIZON 2020 funding programme.

The omission of cultural heritage from HORIZON 2020 would have serious long-term consequences for the availability of funds for research and development in cultural organisations around Europe. It would undermine the basis of existing policy and funding programmes, potentially for many years to come.

Please help lend your voice to the petition, and encourage the Commission to reconsider their position and reinstate cultural heritage!

Communicating through Objects and Collections

January 23rd, 2012 | Posted by nickpoole in Collections Management | Europe - (0 Comments)

In August 2011, for 3 days, London was overtaken by a series of spontaneous riots. As disaffected children and young people took to the streets, looting shops and damaging property, the television news sent pictures of burning buildings and angry mobs around the world.

In the aftermath of the riots, people of all ages and faiths came together in angry condemnation of the senselessness of the riots and with a renewed spirit of unity and community. When things like this happen, society needs to understand them, to learn from them and ultimately learn how to avoid them in the future. (more…)

Come to OpenCulture2011

September 15th, 2010 | Posted by nickpoole in Business Models | Consultation | Digitisation | Europe | Events | General | Nick Poole - (0 Comments)

The Collections Trust has announced OpenCulture 2011 – a 2-day Collections Management event for the UK and international community.

The first international event to focus on current and next-generation practice in Collections Management, OpenCulture 2011 features a Great Collections Management Exhibition and Trade Fair and a conference addressing key themes in Collections policy and practice, including:

  • The Strategic Role of Collections
  • Next-generation Collections Management
  • Collections Management and the End-user

Delegate fees start from as little at £66 plus VAT and there are attractive earlybird discounts for people registering before December 2010.

Find out more about this exciting event and register online at http://www.openculture2011.org.uk

Social Media and Social History

July 13th, 2009 | Posted by nickpoole in Business Models | Consultation | Europe | Events | General | Linked Data | Nick Poole | Uncategorized - (4 Comments)

Saturday morning saw me arrive bleary-eyed in Leeds to give a presentation to the Social History Curators Group about ‘Social History and Social Media’ – essentially a look at three key questions confronting the Social Historian in the digital age:

  • Given that everyone’s experience and creative output is now spread across an extraordinary range of channels and platforms, how can we hope to curate digital Social History?
  • Given that two of the central tenets of the new generation of digital services are collectivism and radical trust, what is the redefined role of a curator going to look like and how do we communicate it to the public?
  • To what extent can the new technological tools, and the philosophies hich underpin them, be harnessed to the work of capturing and curating social history?

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