Colleagues in the UK are hoping to hear from American collecting institutions about digital cultural property. Please see below if you're interested in participating.
Take part in the Digital Cultural Property consultation
Cultural Property and the Digital Future is a research project funded by The National Archives (UK) focusing on archives, libraries and museums. It aims to develop a better understanding of routes to valuing digital assets in terms of their economic and social significance.
For this online consultation, we are seeking views on the acquisition and valuation of born digital assets from various stakeholders including custodians, professional advisers and donors as well as those within the art market trade networks. Questions relate to the complications associated with this process including uniqueness, ownership networks, storage through time, and the laws, policies and funding processes that potentially require review.
The online consultation is in partnership with Professor Elizabeth Lomas, Professor in Information Governance and Cultural Policy, Department of Information at University College London.
There are two consultation links, the first is for collectors and the second for trade networks.
Collectors Link (for archives, libraries, museums, art galleries and collectors)
https://qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_0oLuoHPF6w11rcW Closes Tuesday 5 May
Trade Link
To find out more, please contact either: james.travers@nationalarchives.gov.uk or e.lomas@ucl.ac.uk
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Dr. James Lowry
Queens College, The City University of New York
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