#ItsGoodToShare

Sharing museums collections data has traditionally been a ‘right faff’, but things are moving on and standardising incoming data should soon be the job of the harvesting tool, not the museum supplying the data, says Kevin Gosling.

Kevin Gosling blows the dust off some of the initiatives to connect the nation’s collections that almost everyone has forgotten about.

Pam Young, Collections Documentation and Procedures Manager at the V&A, describes how the museum audited and refined its location authorities to ensure visitors can find what they’re looking for.

Surely Google can help us find objects in collections across the UK’s museums? Chief Executive Kevin Gosling addresses a key question at the heart of the Collections Trust’s recent feasibility study for DCMS on mapping digitised collections.

Kevin Gosling, Chief Executive of Collections Trust, introduces a recently-published study, commissioned by DCMS, into the feasibility of mapping and connecting digitised cultural collections with a view to making them searchable across organisations and disciplines.

In our latest #ItsGoodToShare blog post, researcher Anna Reeve talks about her experience of tracking down information about ancient Cypriot collections. She discusses the difficulties posed by not being able to search across museum collections.

In our latest #ItsGoodToShare blog post, Rick Lawrence, Digital Media Officer at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM), discusses his museum’s experience of sharing collections data online and their aspirations for the future.

In the first #ItsGoodToShare guest blog, David Dawson, Director of Wiltshire Museum, explains why Wessex Museums Partnership would like to combine their online collections to offer users a joined-up service.