Lessons from The Library #1: Cultural organisations and ecommerce

The Library contains a spreadsheet with the CMS, ticketing platform, donations platform, and website designers/builders of 350+ of the largest UK cultural organisations. I’ve just added a column to that spreadsheet showing which ecommerce platforms those cultural organisations are using for their online stores. Of the organisations in my sample, 22% have an online shop. […]

Launching the Library

I’ve launched a thing called The Library. Here’s a bit of background for anyone interested in the what, why, and how. First up, in case you’ve not already, then pop over to The Library and read the FAQ. That should cover the basics. What The Library sits under the Cultural Digital banner – that’s the […]

What Tristram Hunt actually said about digitising collections

“we’re very passionate about it, we’re strong on it” If you worked on the digital side of the museum world I imagine you’d be pretty chuffed to hear a high-profile museum director publicly supporting this kind of work. Right? But if you were following the reaction online over the past couple of days you’d have thought he’d suggested sacking the […]