Managing the Collective Collection

Objective: To understand, prepare for, and help advance libraries, archives, and museums in more profoundly cooperative models of acquiring, managing, and disclosing collections

Modeling New Service Infrastructures

Objective: Derive and demonstrate the processes, structures and prototypes implicit in other themes as they emerge. Help libraries, archives, and museums achieve a common understanding of the processes for which they should be responsible, demonstrate these new frameworks through prototypes, and enable them through open source code and architectures.

Collaborative activities in this domain are organized into the following programs:

• Shared Print Collections
• Data-Mining for Management Intelligence and New Services
• Museum Collection Sharing
• Library, Archive and Museum Collaboration
• Effectively Disclose Archives and Special Collections

Resources

• Public/Private Mass Digitization Resources
• Related blog postings by OCLC Programs and Research staff on HangingTogether.

Related Work

• Missing Materials Beta Project