The document discusses the Collections Australia Network (CAN), a non-profit organization that provides digital collections and services to cultural institutions. It describes how CAN has evolved over time to meet changing needs, shifting its focus from individual museum collections to the wider cultural sector and community. The document also addresses challenges around ensuring the sustainability and value of digital cultural resources into the future.
1. Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009 Collections Australia Network ...an eternal city?... Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy http://www.flickr.com/photos/villes/682456675/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
2. Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009
3. CAN is a not for profit entity CAN is funded in 3 year cycles through a contract tendering process Funded by states and territories contribution Administered by a federal entity: DEWHA, the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts Governed by a ministerial entity: CMC, the Cultural Ministers' Council CAN is currently under review by DEWHA/CMC CAN was previously AMOL Vital statistics Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009
4. Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009 ...an eternal city?... Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy http://www.flickr.com/photos/villes/682456675/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
5. Collections Australia Network ...Issues... Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009 Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy http://www.flickr.com/photos/villes/682456675/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ being there is the start living there is the goal skill base and $ sustainability continuity interest+investment culture change practice change shifting expectations socio+economic+political climate
6. Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009 ...an eternal city?... Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy http://www.flickr.com/photos/villes/682456675/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
7. Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009 Colosseum, Rome, Italy http://www.flickr.com/photos/brunswickian/3427495675/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ ...an eternal city?...
8. ...an eternal city?... Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009 Trajan's Forum, Rome, Italy http://www.flickr.com/photos/sindell357/2142951598/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
9. ..iterations.. ...of an eternal city?... Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009 Trajan's Forum, Rome, Italy http://www.flickr.com/photos/sindell357/2142951598/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ Colosseum, Rome, Italy http://www.flickr.com/photos/brunswickian/3427495675/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy http://www.flickr.com/photos/villes/682456675/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ untouched, new lighting, reinvention
10. Collections Australia Network ...an eternal city?... Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009 Trajan's Forum, Rome, Italy http://www.flickr.com/photos/sindell357/2142951598/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ Colosseum, Rome, Italy http://www.flickr.com/photos/brunswickian/3427495675/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy http://www.flickr.com/photos/villes/682456675/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ being there is the start - living there is the goal
11. dESIGN and vALUE ...an eternal city?... Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009 Trajan's Forum, Rome, Italy http://www.flickr.com/photos/sindell357/2142951598/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ Colosseum, Rome, Italy http://www.flickr.com/photos/brunswickian/3427495675/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy http://www.flickr.com/photos/villes/682456675/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ investigating and articulating the vision with each iteration and transformation
12. dESIGN and vALUE ...an eternal city?... Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009 investigating and articulating the vision with each iteration and transformation design and the elastic mind Value for 90% value and the stakeholders
13. dESIGN and vALUE ...an eternal city?... Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009 ..one of design's fundamental roles: the translation of scientific and technological revolutions into approachable objects that change people's lives and, as a consequence, the world. Design is a bridge between the abstraction of research and the tangible requirements of real life. Foreword, Glenn Lowry, Director, MOMA, Design and the Elastic Mind, 2008.
14. Website changes: 1999 – 2009 Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009
15. AMOL changes: 1999 – 2005 Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009
16. interface design : aesthetic : practice+collecting Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009
17. audience+focus : information gateway : sector resource Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009
18. focus : museum collections : museum education Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009
19. sector identity : information value : educational value Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009
20. CAN changes: 2005 – 2009 Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009
21. interface design : aesthetic : find+search Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009
22. audience+focus: information retrieval : sector space Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009
23. focus: collecting organisations + community content Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009
24. identity shift: wide community value : significance Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009
25. Collections Australia Network ...a community of practice... http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwillms/483853336 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009
26. RESOuRCES CAN Slideshare account CAN YouTube channel CAN Outreach blog APPRoACH Social spaces to load community and practice related content Content then threaded back into the website Opportunity to expand community contribution and direction ATTRiBUTES Openness and flexibility IMPaCT Observe community responses and use patterns Evaluate and rework or change Social media tools Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009
27. Depends where you look.. Website overall Assessing community needs Patterns of visitation over time - what does that say? Accountability! Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009
28. Utility value – what is useful to your audience & why? Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009 4 minute visit time selected page
29. Depends where you look.. Sector information 1. Sector information per se 2. Guide to assessing collection significance 3. Industry standards for museums and galleries 4. Guide on collection care 5. Guide to developing a disaster preparedness plan Top 5 sector resources Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009
30. Significance value - articulating this value in a meaningful way + top page in sector resources Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009
31. ...an eternal city?... Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009 Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy http://www.flickr.com/photos/villes/682456675/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ What is important about what is being delivered and the type of exchange and or engagement occurring and why? by tracing significance+impact
32. ...an eternal city?... Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009 Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy http://www.flickr.com/photos/villes/682456675/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ How do you investigate and articulate value of being online to stakeholders to enable you to live online? by articulating+demonstrating value
33. How do collecting organisations articulate the value of their work? Frank Howarth, Australian Museum, 350,000 visitors onsite, 21 million visitors online for 4 minutes. Future Tense interview : "our reach to people is...in terms of contact hours... however you measure it... is vastly higher in the virtual world... than in the real world... there is a good duality... they feed off each other" Articulating value Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009
34. ...x + y therefore z³... Ingrid Mason, National Project Manager, Collections Australia Network National Digital Forum, Te Whanganui a Tara : Wellington, Aotearoa : New Zealand, 24 Nov 2009 Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy http://www.flickr.com/photos/villes/682456675/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Social measurement tools assess need estimate resources trace significance weight impact align with community maintain relevance articulate value gain buy-in Social Return on Investment Guide: http://content.yudu.com/A17snh/SROI1/ Network: http://www.sroi-uk.org/
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The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped
The manner by which this is enabled is mostly technical I operate on the premise that the designs of services and technology are – very much (and necessarily) socially grounded and shaped