This September, after many years of planning, the Museum Data Service (MDS) was officially launched by Art UK, Collections Trust and the University of Leicester. Built with start-up funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies, and now part of AHRC's IDAH portfolio of digital infrastructures, MDS aims to connect and share all the object records across all UK museums, large and small.
Project lead Kevin Gosling explains how MDS will be a gamechanger for anyone wanting to use museum collection data, and suggests some national policy gaps that could usefully be plugged to improve everyone's practice.
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Open and Engaged 2024: Empowering Communities to Thrive in Open Scholarship
The attached files include the slides and recording of this paper and an edited transcript. The transcript can be viewed using a text editor such as Notepad or used for subtitles. Part of the session on Enabling collections as data: from policy to practice.
