Paul Rowe
CEO, Vernon SystemsUK Museums on the Web 2012
30th Nov 2012, London
What do we want from
online collections?
South Auckland c. 1870http://www.aucklandartgallery.com/the-collection/browse-artwork/7268/south-auckland-landscape
My office
Content
Collections aren’t just objects, they represent knowledge
http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/media/
Catalogue records will never be perfect
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/103443
Share what you have
Owaka Museum in New Zealand publishes all of their 6,800 records and images online
Owaka Museum: 75,000 page views per year
http://www.nzmuseums.co.nz/account/3021
Channels
http://pinterest.com/aucklandmuseum
http://wellcomebrains.tumblr.com/
Engagement
Wow, the lady in the back row in the middle is my great, great, great grandma!! This is Jeremiah Callaghan from Boherbue,
Cork, Ireland. Buried in the Southern Cemetery, Dunedin (Callahan). Married to Jemima McLeod from Wick, Scotland. Lived 4km south of Owaka on the lake with his son John and Jeremiah. Striatic on Flickr
Re-use
Consider licences which encourage re-usePowerhouse Museum: Creative Commons
licensed photo collection
http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2009/papers/bray/bray.html
Copyright is complex – publishing just the data is still worth it
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/shapiro-woman-shielding-her-child-p06558
Sharing data through programming interfaces
Dire wolf skulls at George C. Page Museum © Pyry MatikainenWikimedia Commons / CC-By-SA 2.5
Transparency
Clear details about deaccessioning
http://www.imamuseum.org/art/collections/artwork/teapot--15
http://dmadashboard.org/
Metrics
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikenan1/1992831000 By Mikenan1 - CC-By-NC-ND 2.0
Statistics to help us better direct our resources
Wonder
http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/
Make it, share it,learn from it, make it better
Thank you
Paul RoweVernon Systems@armchair_caver