Bailey, RA, Pereda, J, Michaels, C and Callahan, T (2024) Unlocking the Potential of Digital Collections. A call to action. Technical Report. Towards a National Collection.

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Abstract

This document presents the policy recommendations of Towards a National Collection (TaNC), a five-year, £18.9 million investment in the UK’s world-renowned museums, archives, libraries and galleries, with funding provided through UK Research and Innovation’s Strategic Priorities Fund and delivered by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The recommendations detail an end-to-end process, with case-study examples and supported by detailed training materials, which we ask UK cultural heritage institutions and their funders to adopt to help build a unified UK digital collection. The adoption of these recommendations will take place as the AHRC develops options for a digital research infrastructure that would create the investment necessary to fund the elements of these recommendations beyond the capability and capacity of individual institutions. TaNC believes that a unified UK digital collection will achieve transformational outcomes by breaking down the barriers that exist between the UK’s outstanding cultural heritage collections and unlocking their full potential for our cultural, social and economic good. If the sector can adopt more common ways of working, ensuring their digital collections are created, stored and organised using agreed technical standards; protected with appropriate cybersecurity provisions; and preserved in ways that keeps them available for generations of users to come, they could be shared across a UK-wide technology infrastructure that would enable the public, specialist researchers and key communities of interest to access and engage with our cultural heritage in ways not yet even imagined.

Item Type:	Monograph (Technical Report)
Subjects:	A General Works > AC Collections. Series. Collected works A General Works > AC Collections. Series. Collected works A General Works > AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General) A General Works > AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General) N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z665 Library Science. Information Science Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z719 Libraries (General) Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources > ZA4050 Electronic information resources
Divisions:	Art and Design Humanities and Social Science
Publisher:	Towards a National Collection
SWORD Depositor:	A Symplectic
Date Deposited:	17 Jan 2025 13:38
Last Modified:	17 Jan 2025 14:34
DOI or ID number:	10.5281/zenodo.13838916
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/25311

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