New plans to open up library, archive and museum collections will make it easier for researchers and students to access resources, according to a taskforce announcing its vision today.
At the moment it can be difficult for researchers to access books and information held in different places because the data is incompatible with the web services they use to search the collections.
But under the new vision to be led by JISC and Research Libraries UK individual universities, libraries, archives and museums would share information about their collections, so-called ‘metadata’.
Making this metadata available openly on the web will permit anyone to build innovative new services that use the information.
This would allow researchers and students to explore the data in new ways, for example by subject or type. Libraries could also manage their own collections using the data.
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