Preserving and sharing born-digital and hybrid objects from and across the National Collection

作为“迈向国家收藏：向世界开放英国遗产”主题下的一系列基础研究项目的一部分，“保存和共享数字和混合物品”项目旨在为创建一个统一的国家遗产收藏做出贡献，其中包括数字文化遗产。当代文化越来越数字化。从网站、应用程序和社交媒体，到数字电影、数字艺术品和设计工具，各个领域的创意从业者越来越多地使用数字或物理数字混合技能。然而，数字文化的流行对负责获取、保存和向公众提供文化的收集组织构成了重大挑战，无论是现在还是将来。在考虑如何使我们的国家藏品向世界开放时，我们必须考虑到数字化和混合材料是这些藏品中越来越重要的一部分，否则我们就有可能无法为后代保存我们当代文化的绝大部分，并且在使文化尽可能广泛和有意义地开放的倡议中完全忽略了我们文化的这一重要部分。该项目旨在通过汇集各种不同数字文化类型的专业知识（从档案和图书馆资料到电影和复杂的数字设计）来解决天生的数字和混合收藏的挑战。它将侧重于三个具体和共同的挑战：馆藏管理——支持数字馆藏所需的政策、治理、系统和标准；数字保存和保存——为将来保存数字所需的技能、软件和硬件；还有有意义的访问和体验——访问模式的发展不仅代表了静态的数字文化，而且代表了我们所体验的“生活”。它将包括以案头为基础的研究、审查和编写关于目前做法的报告、一系列讲习班和发展两项技术试点。总的来说，这项研究和这些产出将为今后在全部门范围内推进这项工作所需的主要研究举措奠定基础。这项研究将由一个跨学科的学术和基于收藏的研究人员团队进行，其中包括来自V&A、BFI、泰特、大英图书馆和伦敦大学伯克贝克分校的代表。它还将吸引一些重要的行业专业人士，并将邀请国内和国际参与者参加一系列研讨会，这些研讨会将涉及知识共享，并将确定保护和提供数字化文化遗产所需的建议。通过利用参与不同类型的原生数字和混合文化遗产的个人和机构的集体技能、知识和挑战，该研究项目将确保原生数字文化仍然是国家文化遗产收藏中不可或缺的、以研究为主导的一部分。它还将确定和响应整个文化部门对数字技能和读写能力发展的需求，从而确定未来的需求，并奠定必要的基础，以便真正和包容性地向世界开放英国的国家藏品。

As part of a set of foundational research projects under the theme 'Towards a National Collection: Opening UK Heritage to the World', the Preserving and Sharing Born-digital and Hybrid Objects project aims to contribute to the creation of a unified national heritage collection that includes born-digital cultural heritage.Contemporary culture is increasingly digital. From websites, applications and social media, to digital film, to digital artworks and design tools, creative practitioners in a range of fields are increasingly working with digital or hybrid physical-digital skills. However, this prevalence of digital culture poses a significant challenge to collecting organisations which are responsible for acquiring, preserving and making culture available to the public, now and in the future. In considering how to make our national collections accessible to the world, we must consider born-digital and hybrid material as an increasingly important part of those collections, otherwise we risk failing to preserve the vast majority of our contemporary culture for future generations and entirely omitting this important part of our culture from initiatives to make that culture accessible as widely and as meaningfully as possible. This project seeks to address the challenges of born-digital and hybrid collections by bringing together expertise in a range of different digital cultural types - from archival and library material to film and complex digital design. It will focus on three specific and shared challenges: collections management - the policies, governance, systems and standards needed to support digital collections; digital preservation and conservation - the skills, software and hardware needed to preserve it for the future; and meaningful access and experience - the development of modes of access that do not merely represent digital culture as static, but 'live' as we experience it. It will involve a combination of desk-based research, reviewing and producing reports on current practices, a series of workshops, and the development of two technical pilots. Collectively this research and these outputs will lay the foundations for the future major research initiatives needed to take this forward on a sector-wide scale.The research will be undertaken through an interdisciplinary team of academic and collections-based researchers including representatives from the V&A, BFI, Tate, British Library and Birkbeck, University of London. It will also draw in a number of key industry professionals and will bring national and international participants to a series of workshops that will both involve knowledge sharing and will identify recommendations needed to preserve and make accessible born-digital cultural heritage. By harnessing the collective skills, knowledge and challenges of individuals and institutions involved with different types of born-digital and hybrid cultural heritage, the research project will ensure that born-digital culture remains an integral and research-led part of the national collections of cultural heritage. It will also identify and respond to the need for the development of digital skills and literacy across the cultural sector, so identifying future needs and laying the foundations that are needed in order to truly and inclusively open up the UK's national collections to the world.