The Culture Grid is a new and unique online service from Collections Trust, the UK’s independent organisation for collections.
It enables more people to find out about and go on to visit and engage with the wonders within UK collections: improving the visibility, impact and value of all kinds of collections.
The Culture Grid offers opportunities for you to easily and efficiently:
- reach more people in more ways with your collections information
- bring together a wide range of collections information from within and outside your organisation
- open up collections information so that it can join up with a range of other services from the sector and elsewhere, including low cost added value Digital Services from Collections Trust for terminology management, data hosting; image licensing and print on demand etc
The Culture Grid is managed and delivered by Collections Trust in partnership with technical developers Knowledge Integration Ltd and is funded by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), the European Commission, through its Europeana programme and from Collections Trust trading activities.
The Culture Grid compliments other key Collections Trust services, such as Collections Link and Collect, which all support practitioners to manage collections effectively and improve services to the public.
Collections information in the Culture Grid is provided by a wide range of collecting organisations, including national regional and local collections and from funded programmes and projects.
Collections Trust works with Spectrum Partners and other technology suppliers to make the technical supply of collections information to the Culture Grid as seamless and simple as possible for their customers.
Collections Trust also proactively networks with all kinds of stakeholders across the collections management sector to raise awareness of the value of the Culture Grid and how it can help open up UK collections for everyone.
