Sherri Berger from the California Digital Library discusses outcomes from her breakout session.
The Alliance recognizes that seizing the opportunities of multimedia scholarship will require deep collaboration between all the stakeholders in scholarly communication and that this includes none more than archives, libraries, and museums. To this end, the Alliance recently gathered together representatives from key cultural heritage institutions for a one-day workshop to address issues at the intersection of digital curation, preservation and access, on the one hand, and multimedia research, scholarship, and publishing, on the other.
Representatives from the Getty, Library of Congress, LACMA, the California Digital Library, the Peabody Collection, the WGBH Foundation, the Media Ecology Project, the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, and the University of Southern California Libraries together with members of the Alliance discussed a range of topics. Some of the core challenges articulated again and again by participants included connecting users to content, linking materials and metadata across institutions, digitizatizing massive collections with limited resources, and getting risk-aversive institutions to support access to copyrighted materials under fair use. Still, there was plenty to be excited about! Participants also shared potential opportunities along each of these lines, for example, current efforts in linked bibliographic data and networked models for aggregating content across institutions, both regionally and nationally.
We’ll keep everyone posted as concrete activities and collaborations from the workshop start to form.
Thanks for all who attended!
