In the ethos of the Collections for All website, collaboration, maintenance of the website and the management of the blogs is as follows:
Co-ordination
Blogs are coordinated and commissioned by Julie Reynolds, Collections for All, coordinator [National Programme: Collections, Project Coordinator at the Natural History Museum]. The coordinator is the point of contact for all blog authors.
Editorial Group
An Editorial Group checks blogs before they are accepted for publication.
As of August 2014, the Group members are:
- Christian Baars, Senior Preventive Conservator, National Museum Cardiff
- Mark Carnall, Curator, Grant Museum Zoology, UCL
- Kristin Hussey, PhD Student & Ministry of Curiosity Blogger
- Rob Huxley, Project Lead, National Programme: Collections, Natural History Museum
- Katie Childs, Policy and Projects Manager, National Museum Directors’ Council
- Henry McGhie, Head of Collections, Manchester Museum
- Luanne Meehitya, Natural Sciences Curator, Birmingham Museums Trust
- Julie Reynolds, Project Co-ordinator, National Programme: Collections, Natural History Museum
Advisory Group
An Advisory Group reviews the website content, including blogs, every other month.
As of August 2014, the Group members are:
- David Cutler, Linnean Society of London
- Katey Goodwin, Head of Research and Digitisation, Public Catalogue Foundation
- Andrew Lewis, Digital Content Delivery Manager, Victoria & Albert Museum
- Darren Mann, Head of Life Collections, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Giles Miller, Chair, Geological Curators Group, Senior Curator, Natural History Museum
- Paolo Viscardi, Chair, NatSCA, Deputy Keeper of Natural History, Horniman Museum & Gardens
- Laura Whitton, Content & Community Manager, Collections Trust
Blog content
A series of blogs on handling objects: research and learning, risk, encouraging clinical access, using collections strategically, the value of social media, and new ways of engagement with mass audiences will be commissioned via the project UK Collections Connections Knowledge Workshops (information on Knowledge Exchange Workshops). This is a short term project where UK museums (listed in About Us) will collaboratively develop workshops dealing with the aforementioned subjects and share insights, recommendations, tips, takeaways in toolkit blogs on the Collections for All website.
This project is funded and supported by the Natural History Museum, Arts Council England, and hosting museums (Manchester Museum, Hunterian Museum, and Oxford University Museum of Natural History) and all of the representative organisations of participants attending (aforementioned and National Museum Directors’ Council, Collections Trust, Museum of London, Kings College London, and Queen Mary’s College, London).
In addition, appropriate blogs will be republished from museums, professional bodies and organisations and blogs will be commissioned on specific issues affecting the use of natural science collections [conservation, Integrated Pest Management, sound archives, collection systems and care etc.]
If you have a story, some lessons learned, or knowledge you would like to share or if there is a collection project to add or link to please contact Julie Reynolds via collectionsforall@nhm.ac.uk.
Copyright note: The Collections for All website is created on a Scratchpad platform which states: where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY Licence. Therefore it will be stipulated if any specifc copyright applies to a blog or any content.