the digitisation programme of the national art library, victoria and albert museum, london
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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
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Current Exhibitions
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Undressed
Opus Anglicanum
Revolutions
Engineering
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Future Exhibitions
Pink Floyd
Ocean Liners
Balenciaga
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Metadata and Download Options
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OCR and Search Inside the Book
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Workflow Software - Goobi
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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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