| Title |
McLean Museum Initial Digitised Collection |
| Description |
Scanned images of archival documents which have been created as digital surrogates. These have been stored as JPEGS. A digital artwork, a DIVX file, is also included in the collection along with digitised Museum registers in JPEG, DOC and PDF files. |
| Licensing |
Not for wider use. |
| Owner |
McLean Museum and Art Gallery |
| Dataset Location |
On external hard drive brought to the SPRUCE event. |
| Collection Champion |
 Neil Dickson |
| Issues brainstorm |
- Best Practice for the preservation of our digital collection has not been implemented.
- Our current cataloguing system may not be ready for the changing in Operating System.
- The long term future of cataloguing system is not guaranteed.
- No checks in place to ensure the authenticity of our digital artworks.
- No practice in place to deal with the acquisition of digital collections in the museum.
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