A Framework for Sustainable and Scalable Cultural Data Integration and Analysis: Using the Large Dataset of the Museum Data Service
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Conference paper (published)
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Date published
June 9, 2025
Abstract
For as long as museums have worked together as a professional community, they have envisaged a day in which they could have a complete inventory of all the objects in their shared collections. A searchable national list of museum collections. Despite several false dawns, this dream has eluded the sector - thwarted by funding limitations, the complexities of leadership and ownership, and (of course) the technical challenge of designing an open, stable, usable, secure system. However, now, thanks to start-up funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies, and on-going funding from the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council, the new Museum Data Service [MDS] finally addresses this need, working to deliver a national service - at scale, and with a sustainable business model. A partnership between Art UK, Collections Trust, and the University of Leicester's Institute for Digital Culture, the Museum Data Service is a free service that aims to connect and share all the digital object records across all UK museums, large and small.
Event title
2025 11th International Symposium on System Security, Safety, and Reliability (ISSSR)
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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