Transcript EDLocal kick off Nick Poole

Progress towards Europeana in the UK
Nick Poole, Chief Executive, Collections Trust
The UK cultural sector is committed to delivering
ubiquitous public access to and engagement with cultural
heritage via the Web
Access in itself is not sufficient – we have to demonstrate
impact and work towards sustainability (economic, political
and social)
Europeana/EDL is one of the primary motivations towards
exposing digital assets from museums, archives and
libraries in the UK
Back in time…
1999
Netful of Jewels highlights priorities for culture
2000-2003
NOF-Digitise generates £50m of digital assets
2003-2005
Culture Online creates £10m of services
Current priorities…
Developing common
policies and practices
Building infrastructure
and bandwidth
Growing knowledge
and skills
Integrating and
rationalising systems
Converging standards
for culture
Exploring sustainable
business models
Current initiatives & partnerships
Strategic Content Alliance
Digital Access Scotland
Integrated Architecture Project
National Collections Online Feasibility Study
Strategic Content Alliance
Reducing and removing the barriers which inhibit access, use and
re-use of online content
Integrated Architecture Project
Europeana & other services
Web services (out)
UK aggregator
Web services (in)
Culture-sector bodies & services
IAP Deliverables
Cultural Terminology
Server
Persistent Identifiers
Server
Collection Description
Server
Object Information
Server
Digital Rights
Management
APIs and interfaces
Nick Poole, Collections Trust
www.collectionstrust.org.uk
www.collectionslink.org.uk
www.culturalpropertyadvice.gov.uk