Museum Data Service

We’re bringing together data drawn from UK collections large and small, and sharing it for any number of uses. Were compiling summaries of those collections to give a much-needed national overview. Drilling down, were gathering detailed object records and turning them into FAIR data — findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable — as the raw material for others to work with as needs arise and funding allows.

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We’re bringing together data drawn from UK collections large and small, and sharing it for any number of uses. Were compiling summaries of those collections to give a much-needed national overview. Drilling down, were gathering detailed object records and turning them into FAIR data — findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable — as the raw material for others to work with as needs arise and funding allows.

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