GLAM Peak Hobart

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* what will support an exhibition or major event/anniversary
* what will support an exhibition or major event/anniversary


'''Digital Access Plans''
 
== Digital Access Plans ==
 
Organisations discussed questions related to developing a digital access plan.
Organisations discussed questions related to developing a digital access plan.
* How will you provide digital access?
* How will you provide digital access?
* How will the collection be shared online?
* How will the collection be shared online?
* Will you use social media?
* Will you use social media?
* What is your business model?  
* What is your business model?


== Resources ==
== Resources ==

Revision as of 22:30, 18 November 2017

Wikimedia Australia is a technology partner for the GLAM Peak Digital Access to Collections workshop held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Thursday 16 and Friday 17 November 2017.

This was a free two-day workshop giving attendees the opportunity to participate in training focussed on digitisation and the provision of digital access to collections, Q&A with leading technology providers, and the chance to network with other GLAM organisations.

Twitter hashtag #digaccess_tas

Who attended the workshop?

The workshop was facilitated by Wendy Quilhampton and Lucinda Davison, GLAM Peak with presentations from Lyndall Ley, AIATSIS, each of the technology partners attending, and two case studies from local museums.

What did GLAM participants want to get out of the workshop?

  • how to do this properly
  • how do we find out what each other has?
  • how do we match technology to available resources with workflows?
  • how to make the digitised collection accessible?
  • how do we make best use of social media, and make it easy for people to use the organisation's own image database in social media
  • what are we aiming for as best practice?
  • how do we get our organisations on board?
  • what is the next step after digitisation?
  • how do we manage the extra enquiries coming as we have created this new level of access?
  • how do we determine the value of what we digitise - how do we choose what to digitise, is anyone interested?
  • how to make our collections more accessible?

What are the problems that GLAM organisations are seeking to solve?

  • money
  • time
  • volunteers
  • copyright
  • privacy - especially for schools
  • resourcing
  • continuity for the sector
  • interoperability across the sector, right down to spelling
  • data storage limitations for many - hi-res images take space
  • digitisation is a buzz word in organisations, but do they really know what it means/entails?

How do GLAMs decide what to digitise first?

  • what a formal significance assessment has identified as priority
  • what people are asking for
  • what is at risk of deterioration
  • what someone will fund
  • what will support an exhibition or major event/anniversary


Digital Access Plans

Organisations discussed questions related to developing a digital access plan.

  • How will you provide digital access?
  • How will the collection be shared online?
  • Will you use social media?
  • What is your business model?

Resources

Indigenous collection items Lyndall Osborne, Executive Director Collections, AIATSIS


Links to Australian collections featured


Challenges that Wikimedia Australia could engage in

  • Build awareness of regional GLAM collections
  • Actively promote the benefits of Creative Commons licensing for small GLAM collections
  • Check out this list of collecting organisations in Victoria



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