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The Culture Paradox (or, why Shakespeare is Spanish)
24th March 2012
The Cultural Imperative…
• To select, collect, interpret and present
• In highly controlled contexts
• Over a long period
• Creating ‘high-end’ knowledge
• Based on authority & credibility
• To create public trust
National Museum’s Mission Statement (Google it)
The Museum's responsibilities are to safeguard and enhance the value of its pre-eminent assets:
• Its collections• Its expertise• Its buildings
Objectives
The Museum's objectives are to spread the benefits of these assets by:
• Maximizing access and inspiration for all users• Satisfying stakeholders, locally, nationally and internationally• Effective organization and sound financial management
The barriers to openness
• The barrier is not a question of cost
• The barrier is a question of mission & value
• Success in ‘open content’ world is maximising re-use
• Success in ‘culture’ world is maximising engagement on our terms
• The problem is that we share the same mission in word, but not in meaning
• Economics, copyright & technology are all surmountable issues, but only if we want them to be
A difference of opinion
Cultural organisation
Controlled context
Authority
Recouping investment
Expertise
Quality control
Long-term
Open Content Lobby
Open
Open
Taxpayers money
Open
Crowdsource
Open
Where next?
• More and more cultural organisations are exploring open as a form of engagement
• An emerging model based on 80%, 15%, 5%
• BUT it is precisely the high-value cultural items that people want to be able to repurpose
• £250m of public investment has digitised maybe 7% of collections
• Metadata in the culture sector is not just metadata
• Declining subsidy will only make it worse
Thank you!
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