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Digital State of the Sector
Fiona TalbottHead of Museums, Libraries and Archives
October 2015
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HLF research• July 2013 – July 2014 funded 3,800 projects. • 512 responses to survey
• Reviewed 40 projects to evaluate quality and effectiveness; and 10 in depth interviews
• Digital outputs in majority of the 512 projects,
• Only 1 considered ‘wholly digital’ • Only 1 had no digital element at all
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Digital Outputs • Documents/archives being
digitised • Film/video being digitised• Sound recordings being digitised• Creating new images• Creating new film/video• Creating new sound recordings• New documentation and data sets• Web site with heritage assets • School resources • Mobile applications, games or
augmented reality
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Good News• Majority digitising analogue content (e.g. photos, films,
audio recordings)
• Two thirds producing dedicated websites
• Over half of projects producing digital images and/or videos
• Around a third produced new documentation and data-sets
• Only 14% developing other digital tools like apps or augmented reality
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Challenges • Understanding audiences
• Making heritage discoverable
• Developing digital skills
• Funding
• Ambition
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Achieving quality?• Plan, design and deliver with
audience in mind
• Offer opportunity for people to contribute and participate.
• Allow sharing and re-use of content
• Encourage people to collect and ‘curate’ digital material
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A proposition