The document discusses making museum, library, and archive content available online for learning, creativity, and entertainment. It notes that by the 2010s, 70% of UK households and 76% of adults were online. It describes how cultural institutions have digitized their content over the decades. The Culture Grid project aggregates this digital content and makes it available through various databases, websites, and catalogs. It is preserving content, sharing it with media partners, and delivering it to real consumers for free, open reuse. The project is supported by various UK organizations and is contributing content to services like Europeana, the BBC, Google, and Wikipedia.

2. The big idea: creating opportunities for learning, creativity & entertainment by making museum, library and archive content available to and usable by everyone, everywhere.

3. The story....

7. In 2009, 70% of all UK households are online 76% of the adult UK population has accessed the Internet in the past 3 months 64% of this population regularly purchase goods or services online Online retail accounted for £222bn of transactions in 2008 £106bn of this was spent on leisure activity, travel and tourism This is the mass-market

9. The museum, archive and library story....

10. In the Beginning...

11. 1970’s Thou shalt Acquire Everything

12. 1980’s Thou shalt Document Everything

13. 1990’s Thou shalt Digitise Everything

14. The result?

16. ...supply Demand...

17. ...supply ...meets... Demand...

18. 2010’s Thou shalt Connect Everything

19. How it works

20. Museum Library Archive

21. Databases Websites Catalogues PUT THEIR CONTENT INTO Museum Library Archive

22. Our database FROM WHERE WE AGGREGATE IT INTO Databases Websites Catalogues PUT THEIR CONTENT INTO Museum Library Archive

23. Our database PRESERVE IT Digital Archive FROM WHERE WE AGGREGATE IT INTO Databases Websites Catalogues PUT THEIR CONTENT INTO Museum Library Archive

24. For free, open re-use With mass-media partners SHARE IT Our database PRESERVE IT Digital Archive FROM WHERE WE AGGREGATE IT INTO Databases Websites Catalogues PUT THEIR CONTENT INTO Museum Library Archive

25. To real consumers! DELIVER IT For free, open re-use With mass-media partners SHARE IT Our database PRESERVE IT Digital Archive FROM WHERE WE AGGREGATE IT INTO Databases Websites Catalogues PUT THEIR CONTENT INTO Museum Library Archive

26. The majority of the costs of developing the Culture Grid have been paid for by the European Commission. Collections Trust, MLA and Museums Galleries Scotland have also invested in it.

27. What are we doing with it now? (The apps)

28. Delivering the UK contribution to Europeana... ...more than 800k records from 80+ participating institutions

29. Delivering cultural content to the BBC... ...20 participating organisations contributing to the BBC Centuryshare Project

30. Delivering cultural content to Google... ...fully indexed and linking back to the institutions

31. Providing hosted search... ...a simple query-builder which lets anyone tailor their own search of cultural content and embed it in their own site

32. Supporting collections mapping & subject specialism... ...providing the Culture Grid as a platform for Museums Galleries Scotland, Inspire, Reading Agency and a range of others to map and share their collections

33. Delivering Cultural Content into Wikipedia... ...enabling Wikimedians to embed and enrich cultural content in their articles

34. Who likes it?

35. Tim Berners-Lee (Linked Data Czar) Sion Simon (Creative Industries Minister) Ed Vaizey(Shadow Culture Minister) EMI Wikipedia Flickr Outside of New Zealand, this is world-beating technology delivering public value.

36. The possibilities are infinite