The Curator’s Egg

Almost, but not quite, just back from Electric Connections 2005 in Perth (I’ve had my dinner first), so some thoughts on the day.

My talk ‘Display it again, Sam’ went down quite well, which was a relief. Quite a lot of applause at the end, though whether that was because it was a good presentation or relief that I had finished, I couldn’t say. At least I only got laughs where they were intended :).

Plenty of other good stuff, and some useful contacts. I’m particularly interested in picking up on the Scottish-law version of the Creative Commons licence which should be launched soon. This could be a way of allowing creative public use of and contributions to our online museum resources. Interesting to find out about the BM thesaurus. There was some disappointment in the auditorium at the failure of the National Burns Collection (somehow sounds sort of medical, that) to produce an image of the great man’s ‘marriage equipment’ - and explain why it is categorised under ‘religion’. As a side note, I’m not sure I’d have a logo on my site boasting about ‘Level A compliance’ with the WAI WCAG (that’s the Web Accessibility Initiative Web Content Accessibility Guidelines for those not au fait with such things). I was also confirmed in the belief that librarians are definitely obsessed with metadata ;).

I was further reminded that we really need to formalise a digital preservation strategy. Perhaps we should get together with the records manager, and also look what other parts of the council are doing. Hmmm.

The DPC, by the way, is a membership organisation. It costs £10,000 per year to join. I’m thinking of starting up a similar scheme for Curator’s Egg. Send me £10k and I’ll let you join in.

What, no takers?

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