Digital Information Access in Cultural Institutions
Solutions: Share Digital Info
What are the things we can do to resolve these problems of accessing digital information?
Open Up
Adopt empathetic knowledge sharing. Remove power plays that keep information from the public. Utilize strength in union and promote education.
Keywords/Standardized Metadata
Using keywords when categorizing and digitizing data to promote interoperability in between databases. Standardized formats that promote access across fields.
Searchable Databases
Connect through open portals and promote access to information held and used by cultural institutions. Easy to access and user friendly.
"The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labor, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from each other and to seek the truth rather than seek to be right."
— Donella Meadows
Visualizing and Combining Datasets
Promote research and fellowship by combining datasets from hosts that match standardized categories of data. The making of a master data log including cross-references.
In promoting gathering data for databases and sets only through ethically sound extractions will promote connections for research and information between groups of people.
Always Room to Grow
Creating shareable databases for interoperability and interconnectivity that are open to the public requires planning ahead on creating space for all the information to be gathered and organized. Keeping "
Authors: Ellysha Leonard; Editor: Ellysha Leonard, 2021