The Case for Aggregations of Cultural Data

A bit of a profound question – triggered by a guest post on Museums Computer Group by Nick Poole CEO of The Collections Trust about Culture Grid and an overview of recent announcements about it. Broadly the changes are that:

• The Culture Grid closed to ‘new accessions’ (ie. new collections of metadata) on the 30th April.
• The existing index and API will continue to operate in order to ensure legacy support.
• Museums, galleries, libraries and archives wishing to contribute material to Europeana can still do so via the ‘dark aggregator’, which the Collections Trust will continue to fund.

Interested parties read more here