The following notes are taken live at the European Commission’s Member States Expert Group meeting. Opinions expressed are the author’s own.
INTRODUCTION
The meeting was introduced by Mr Khalil Rouhana, Director of Directorate E (Digital Library Initiative) at the European Commission. (more…)
Recently, the Europeana Foundation ran a survey to find out whether people would be willing to sign their new Licence Agreements. It wasn’t a wholly straightforward question since, for the first time, the Agreements specifically included the ability for unknown 3rd parties to put the metadata contained in Europeana to commercial uses. Permitting commercial uses is vital if Europeana is to achieve its ambition of publishing metadata about Europeana digital cultural content as Linked Open Data, and of sharing it with partners such as Wikipedia. (more…)
I was invited along to the offices of We Are What We Do the other day for a get-together to discuss the launch of HistoryPin.
For those of you that are unfamiliar with HistoryPin, it is essentially a web-based and mobile application which encourages young people and old people to ‘pin’ their photographs and the stories they tell to a map of the world. The web platform and iPhone app will be ‘launched’ (the web platform’s already been available for a while in a basic form) on the 11th July. (more…)
The following text is taken from an address to the SCONUL Conference, which takes place this year at the Hilton Hotel Cardiff. My sincere thnks to Bill Thompson, who provided most of the inspiration (and many of the words!) for this speech in his address to the OpenCulture 2011 conference.
I am hugely honoured to have been invited here to speak to you today about the Future of Libraries in a Digital Britain – particularly since my credentials, meagre as they are, do not include a qualification in librarianship. (more…)
Over the next 2 days, I’ll be blogging the main impressions of the OpenCulture 2011 conference, organised by the Collections Trust at Conference Aston in Birmingham. After many months and several changes of venue(!) the big day has finally arrived. OpenCulture 2011 is an opportunity for the UK and International cultural heritage community to come together, look at some of the key challenges we currently face and identify the shape of things to come. (more…)
On the 7th and 8th June this year, the Collections Trust will hold (or will have held, depending on when you’re reading this) a 2-day Conference called OpenCulture 2011. OpenCulture is the first of the 5 strategic programmes in our Forward Plan, and it also serves as the shorthand for the work we do - culture should be open, cultures thrive when they are open, and we work to help museums, archives and libraries share their Collections as openly as possible. (more…)
