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A Modest Proposal – The Digitisation Programme of the National Art Library
Martin Flynn
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
20 October 2016
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The Victoria and Albert Museum – V&A
Current Exhibitions
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Undressed
Opus Anglicanum
Revolutions
Engineering
Future Exhibitions
Pink Floyd
Ocean Liners
Balenciaga 4
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The National Art Library
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National Art Library – Some Highlights
Illuminated medieval manuscripts
Artists books
Private libraries – Forster and Dyce
Literary material
Probably the largest collection of sales catalogues
Over half of collection in languages other than English
Exhibition catalogues
Extracts from Bleak House manuscript, Charles Dickens, with author’s alternative titles (Solitary House, Ruined House etc)
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Jonathan Swift’s Corrections Gulliver’s Travels
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Themes
Funding Streams
Institutional Culture
Technological Developments
Equipment Costs
Specific Digitisation Initiatives
Funding Streams
Google and Microsoft
The People’s Network
European Funds
JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee)
British Library – HE focus
V&A Priorities and Culture
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V&A Culture
FuturePlan Developments
Priority is object collections
Digital content is a challenging concept in our collections and object based environment
Museum databases cannot cope adequately with books
Differing metadata standards
V&A and E-Publishing
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Exhibition Road FuturePlan Project
Current Work Model Plan
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Museum E-Publishing - ISSUU
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V&A Publishing
Latest Catalogue Reprints as EBooks
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Search the Collections Options
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Search the Collections Result
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The Route to Digitisation – Costs and Technological Developments
200th anniversary of Dickens’s Birth – Tale of Two Cities, Mystery of Edwin Drood and David Copperfield published online in 2012
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Degenerate Art – Entartete Kunst Typescript Published Online 2014
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Wassily Kandinsky - Destroyed
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ECCO (18th Century Collections Online)
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Empire Online – Adam Matthew (Sage)
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World Fairs – Adam Matthew (Sage)
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Current Technology – Image Access
Bookeye 4
Bookeye 3
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Internet Archive – South Kensington Art Handbooks
Metadata and Download Options
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OCR and Search Inside the Book
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Workflow Software - Goobi
Discoverability
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The Future
Scale up the programme
Use of volunteers
Further commercial partnerships
New library management system
Crowdsourcing transcription of Bleak House
Cultural change to make digitisation a core activity
Perfection the Enemy of Progress
Internet Archive V&A Group
Getty Research Portal
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