Digital Heritage Lab was a free programme for small to medium heritage organisations seeking to develop their digital capabilities and capacity. Memory Dance worked with three locations.
Digital Heritage Lab was funded through the support of The National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage initiative. Digital Heritage Lab was project managed by the Arts Marketing Association – in partnership with Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy, One Further and the Collections Trust and funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage initiative.
In 2020 I was assigned to three wildly differring organisations across the UK to act as Mentor, and to work through and develop some ideas about cultural heriatge and digital skills. The three organisations were: Lanark And District Arcaeological Society in Clydesdale, the museum group from Fermanagh & Omagh Council in Northern Ireland, and finally Nidderdale Museum in North Yorkshire.
During 2020-21, I was assigned to three
It was an incredibly rich and rewarding eighteen months made all the more memorable as we were deeply shrouded by COVID and for the groups it was a whole new online/virtual way of working. We talked all things digital and tried to encourage new ideas, new ways of thinking and strategic planning, processes and development. Across the mentoring sessions we covered online engagement, digital preservation, audiovisual archiving, e-commerce, and exhibition technologies.
The project officialy ended in late 2021 / early 22, but in October 2023 the Arts MArketing Association organised a full day conference at the British Museum and we were asked to reflect on the Digital Heritage Lab with one of our mentees, in this case Ed Archer, of LADAS. The talk is available here.
After a year of no communications, Ed and I have now struck up an ongoing monthly meetup to reboot some of those ideas from the initial project.
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