what do we want from online collections?
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Presentation given at UKMW12, the Museums Computer Group's Museums on the Web 'Strategically Digital' conference, Wellcome Collection, London, November 30, 2012TRANSCRIPT
Paul Rowe
CEO, Vernon SystemsUK Museums on the Web 2012
30th Nov 2012, London
What do we want from
online collections?
South Auckland c. 1870http://www.aucklandartgallery.com/the-collection/browse-artwork/7268/south-auckland-landscape
My office
Share what you have
Owaka Museum in New Zealand publishes all of their 6,800 records and images online
Engagement
Wow, the lady in the back row in the middle is my great, great, great grandma!! This is Jeremiah Callaghan from Boherbue,
Cork, Ireland. Buried in the Southern Cemetery, Dunedin (Callahan). Married to Jemima McLeod from Wick, Scotland. Lived 4km south of Owaka on the lake with his son John and Jeremiah. Striatic on Flickr
Consider licences which encourage re-usePowerhouse Museum: Creative Commons
licensed photo collection
http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2009/papers/bray/bray.html
Copyright is complex – publishing just the data is still worth it
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/shapiro-woman-shielding-her-child-p06558
Dire wolf skulls at George C. Page Museum © Pyry MatikainenWikimedia Commons / CC-By-SA 2.5
Transparency