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.
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