The Heritage Lottery Fund have released a report called Digital Participation and Learning: 22 Case Studies. The case studies are intended to:
illustrate a wide range of approaches to using digital media to engage people with culture and heritage
And these are they:
- ArtBabble (Indianapolis Museum of Art)
- Chester: Revealing the Rows (Cheshire West and Chester Council)
- China Heart (Deluxe Media Arts for the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney)
- eBird (Cornell Lab of Ornithology and
- Audubon)
- First World War Poetry Digital Archive (Oxford University Computing Services)
- Historypin (We Are What
- We Do and Google)
- I like… Museums (North East Regional Museums Hub with support from Renaissance)
- Leicester Cultural Walk (Ross Grant)
- Life on the Verge (Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust)
- Museum Metadata Games (Science Museum)
- My Brighton and Hove (volunteer-led)
- NaturePlus (Natural History Museum)
- Old Weather (Citizen Science Alliance, University of Oxford, ACRE, Met Office, Naval-History.net,
- National Maritime Museum and JISC)
- People’s Collection Wales (Aberystwyth University with Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, the National Library of Wales and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales)
- Pledge Wall (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
- Rochester Cathedral Virtual Tour (choirist at Rochester Cathedral)
- Rotherham 24 Hour Library (Rotherham Library and Information Service)
- Streetmuseum (Museum of London)
- The Grand Tour (The National Gallery)
- The Secret Hills Time Trails (Shropshire Walking)
- Trove (The National Library of Australia)
- Virtual Classroom (National Archives)
A handy list, I’m sure you’ll agree. If you’re hungry for more then there are further examples of digital activity in the appendices. The Foundation Center’s Nonprofit Collaboration Database (which I only discovered the other day) is a very good resource too.