Elizabeth Bollwerk

An aside : It’s interesting to note that Agile ideas fit the registrar’s work much better than museum digital projects. Grant funding, fixed requirements, timelines and resources all mean that digital projects are almost always waterfall processes.

Our idea is that using the collection creates new context, which we can store in collection data. The data produces new connections when we share it, and that inspires new use. The geology professor may find the perfect object to use in a class because it was used in an archeology class in the past.

…people use an object, it circulates. Digitized collections are alive even when they’re stored away. With an image and a bit of data, especially when shared on the internet, a collection object can be used. It can be in multiple places at once. Grouped, gathered, inspected. This is not a physical life, will never replace a physical encounter, but it is a useful life.