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Friday Lunchtime Lecture: Unlocking The Cultural Archives
Friday Lunchtime Lecture: Unlocking The Cultural Archives
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Richard Leeming
External Relationship Manager
Research and Education Space.
The future
What we will do
We will commission a report on the key issues to be addressed
to make the UK one of the worlds leading countries for
digitised public collections content.
We will ask Historic England to work with local authorities to
enhance and rationalise national and local heritage records
over the next ten years, so that communities and developers
have easy access to historic environment records.
Freezes or real-terms
reductions in budget
allocations to national
museums, archives and
libraries relative to inflation
of between 15-30%
Threatened and actual
cuts to Local Authority
budgets for museums and
museum services, ranging
from 15% to wholesale
withdrawal of investment
symbiotic relationship with a trading company, such as the relationship between the V&A and
V&A Enterprises Ltd, there are very few examples in the UK of fully commercial Accredited
museums that solely provide access to digital content on a charged basis.
The diagram below provides a thumbnail sketch of the current position of the majority of the
museums, archives and libraries that formed the focus of this study:
A small number of NMDC member institutions have taken a strategic decision to provide some or
all of their digital content under an open licence. Where this is the case, it appears largely to be a
strategic decision driven by the Director of Senior Manager based on compatibility with the public
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5.4bn
26bn
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