UC10153: Working with Collections, 2017

What this unit is about?

• This unit is about the diversity of cultural heritage collections and the techniques we use to describe, manage, use, and explore them.
• The focus is on the intellectual, rather than physical, control. So not how we store things, but how we develop systems and standards to describe them.
• We’ll also be exploring the role of descriptive systems in supporting the discovery and use of collections. What can we do with them, particularly in the digital realm?

Modules

• Module 1: Collections and Communities

• Module 2: Significance, standards, and systems

• Module 3: Description and digitisation

• Module 4: Context and discovery