Dylan Edgar

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Collection Level Descriptions in Scottish museums

• Dylan Edgar
• ICT Adviser
• Scottish Museums Council

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Strategic context

• Scotlands National Audit 2002
• A national ICT strategy for Scotlands museums
• Increasing online access to museum collections
• Recognising levels of information about
  collections to help achieve this
• A national collections development strategy for
  Scotlands museums
• CLDs seen as a key mechanism to support many of
  the proposed priorities

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First steps

• Raising awareness of CLDs in Scotland
• Engaging museums and other stakeholders
• Piloting the development and use of CLDs in
  museums

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The way forward
INFRASTRUCTURE

• Establish
• infrastructure
• Scope
• Set up
• User testing
• Maintain

• List of
• requirements
• Essential
• Desirable

REQUIREMENTS CAPTURE

• CLD pilot project
• ICT strategy
• What Clicks?
• Previous CLD work
• Other research

CONTENT

• Guidance on
• content creation
• Templates
• Examples
• Length
• Tone
• Audience
• Terminology

• Content creation
• and maintenance
• Continuing advocacy
• Voluntary scheme
• Partial completion of location records
• Coordinating other projects

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Dylan Edgar ICT Adviser Scottish Museums
Council dylane_at_scottishmuseums.org.uk www.scottis
hmuseums.org.uk