GLAM Peak Hobart
Wikimedia Australia is a technology partner for the GLAM Peak Digital Access to Collections workshop being held in Hobart, Thursday 16 and Friday 17 November 2017.
Hashtag #digaccess_tas
Who attended the workshop?
- Arts Tasmania
- Bayview Secondary College
- Bruny Island Historical Society
- Channel Museum
- COMA
- Dover Museum and Art Gallery
- East Coast Heritage Museum Swansea
- Guilford Young College
- Mackillop Catholic College
- Mount Carmel College
- Museum of Old and New Art
- Ogilvie High School
- Parliament of Tasmania
- Port Arthur Historic Site Management
- Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
- Scouts Tasmania
- Supreme Court Tasmania
- Sydney Cove Archaeological Collection
- Tasmania Health Service – Wingfield Library
- Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG)
- Tasmanian Nursing Collection
- TasTAFE
- The Friends’ School
- The Hutchins School
- University of Tasmania
- Upper Derwent United Hall
- Wireless Institute of Australia
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?
Links to some amazing Australian collections that are out there
- The Collecting Bug hosts collections including Australian soccer cards and Australian Jazz Museum.
Challenges that Wikimedia Australia could engage in?
- Contact small collections and discuss the benefits of Creative Commons licensing