Digital

General

Digital definitions for small museums. Easy to understand definitions used in the world of digital technologies. Terminology is grouped under the subheadings of the basics, the internet, equipment, collection related, media and social media - http://mgnsw.org.au/sector/resources/online-resources/digital/digital-definitions-small-museums/

Digital strategy

Examples of digital strategies:

Australia Government Digital Transformation Office standard - https://www.dto.gov.au/standard/
Europeana strategy - http://strategy2020.europeana.eu/
The US Digital Service: Digital Services Playbook - https://playbook.cio.gov/
Tate digital strategy - http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/19/tate-digital-strategy-2013-15-digital-as-a-dimension-of-everything
Oxford University GLAM strategy - http://www.glam.ox.ac.uk/digital-strategy

Digitisation

SLQ digitisation toolkit - http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/qld-history/connected-collection-of-queensland-memory/digitisation-toolkit

Collections Trust UK Digitisation ‘Going Digital’ - http://www.collectionstrust.org.uk/collections-link/going-digital/digitisation

Te Papa digitising collections - https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/learn/for-museums-and-galleries/how-guides/collection-management/digitising-collections

Digitising your collection -

Preserving born-digital collections

Digital images, National Library of New Zealand - https://natlib.govt.nz/collections/caring-for-your-collections/digital-images

Managing your digital records, National Library of Australia - https://www.nla.gov.au/blogs/preservation/2016/08/08/managing-your-digital-records

Digital Preservation project, National and State Libraries Australasia - http://www.nsla.org.au/projects/digital-preservation

Contribute your collections to Trove

The National Library of Australia’s Trove is a discovery service which brings together content from libraries, museums, archives and other research organisations and provides tools to explore and build on the content.

http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/using-trove/getting-to-know-us

You can contribute your digitised collections to Trove:

Victorian Collections

An information collection management system of cultural artefacts held by hundreds of Victorian organisations. It is free for use by Victorian collecting institutions.

Europeana Collections

Discovery service with content from institutions throughout Europe.

http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en

Flickr Commons

A lot of Australian institutions participate in Flickr Commons, goal of The Commons is to share hidden treasures from the world's public photography archives.

https://www.flickr.com/commons

Guggenheim storylines

This site offers varied avenues to access and understand the Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim exhibition’s visual and textual content.

Social media

Examples of social media strategies:

US National Archives - http://usnationalarchives.github.io/social-media-strategy/
National Library of Australia - https://www.nla.gov.au/policy-and-planning/social-media
National Museum Wales - https://museum.wales/blog/2015-06-16/Social-Media-Policy-for-Museums/

Copyright/rights/access

Rights statements for cultural heritage institutions - http://rightsstatements.org/en/

Australian Digital Alliance

The ADA is a broad coalition of copyright users and innovators who support copyright laws that strike a balance between providing reasonable incentives for creators, on one hand, and the wider public interest in the advancement of learning, innovation and culture, on the other - http://www.digital.org.au/about

Creative Commons

Creative Commons provides resources which focus on understanding the principles of open licensing to help make your collections more open and engage your communities.

http://creativecommons.org.au/learn/glam/