lessons from a collaboration

Lessons from a collaboration

Kate StoneOnline Manager,National Film & Sound Archive@kate__stone@NFSAOnline

National Archives of Australia

National Library of Australia

National Film & Sound Archive, Australia

National Gallery of Australia

National Museum of Australia

National Maritime Museum of Australia

National Portrait Gallery

Australian War Memorial

Museum Of Democracy

Collaboration is desirable

It’s a good look

• Often paired with other desirable values:Innovative collaborationCreative collaboration

• And has some nice related words:collegiality, fellowship, partnership; community, reciprocity,

symbiosis; synergy; communion, cooperativeness, kinship, oneness, solidarity, togetherness, unity

It’s highly valued & much talked about

Technical/web tools make it easy

• low cost and rapid or real time sharing of ideas, knowledge, and skills has made collaborative work easier.

• Internet allows groups to easily form

Collaboration

Easy to say, harder to do

Requires leadership

&

resources

Resources

• Are education programs the poor cousin in cultural orgs?

• TLF had the money for this particular project and didn’t need us to collaborate independently of them

• How well resourced is digital publication of cultural resources?

Can our data collaborate for us?

• Scootle

• Trove

• ANDS

Data v stories

“The two cultures of the contemporary world are the culture of data and the culture of narrative.”

– William Germano

http://chronicle.com/article/What-Are-Books-Good-For-/124563/

Thanks to Sarah Rhodes for her help with this presentation.