A little bit of joined-up thinking (some) issues of convergence in our memory institutions

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A little bit of joined-up thinking(some) issues
of convergence in our memory institutions

• Dr. Paul Miller
• Interoperability Focus
• UK Office for Library Information Networking
  (UKOLN)
• P.Miller_at_ukoln.ac.uk http//www.ukoln.ac.uk/

UKOLN is funded by the Council for Museums,
Archives and Libraries (CMAL), the Joint
Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the
Further and Higher Education Funding Councils, as
well as by project funding from JISC and the EU.
UKOLN also receives support from the
Universities of Bath and Hull where staff are
based.
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Summary

• Convergence
• Pros and Cons
• Issues
• Solving Problems
• The Bath Profile

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Convergence

• All around the world, memory institutions are
  merging or converging
• Some real
• Some in little more than name?
• Some cynical?

RLG/OCLC work on preservation
Digicult
Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries
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Convergence and the user

• At last