OpenCulture

OK, so it’s been a little while since I’ve been able to update you about the development of our Digital Agency (see previous post on this topic), but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy!

Following extensive consultation and some really valuable comments and contributions from colleagues in the sector, we have refined the scope of the proposal, and are now nearly ready to launch it at the forthcoming COLLECT2010 event on the 28th June.

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Every once in a while, things shift imperceptibly but fundamentally on their axis. Devout views, long-held, become the laughable fancies of childish innocence. Entrenched positions become blurred as tectonic plates beneath them start to grind into motion. And so it is, it seems, with ‘Digital’.

Digital. The banner under which museums, libraries and archives unite. The ultimate priority of Governments across the Western world. The word has become axiomatic - ‘Digital Britain’, ‘Digital Economy Bill’, ‘Digital Culture’. But like all axioms, it is ultimately meaningless. Or at least, it means so many things that it has lost its way in a semantic miasma.

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So, if today’s reaction on Twitter is anything to go by, it appears that people are interested in following the development of the Collections Trust’s latest venture as it comes together over the next 12 months. We’ll be announcing a new Twitter account for this project shortly and in the meantime, we’ll be using this blog to keep track of things.

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