Digital

This is where you will find information and practical help about collection digitisation, social media, internet resources and other digital information for museums and galleries.

Digital Engagement: Connecting with your audience

This guide is intended for anyone planning to use digital technologies to enhance the galley or museum experience and needing to engage external resources/contractors to do so.

Digital Suppliers List for Museums and Galleries

A list of suppliers for anyone planning to use digital technologies to enhance the galley or museum experience.

Design Approaches to Digital Projects – A Beginners Guide

A guide to developing a digital or transmedia project for your museum or gallery, utilising interactive devices, smartphones and tablets.

Social Media: Making sure your Historical Society gets its share of the limelight

Written and prepared by Suzanne Holohan, General Manager, Royal Australian Historical Society. This handout is from a presentation given at the 2019 RAHS Conference.

ICOM Social Media Guidelines

The communications team at ICOM has developed these guidelines, to share best practice, as well as tips on how to create communication campaigns and efficiently manage social media accounts.

Crystal Clear: standards and guidance for digitising regional collections

This step-by-step guide addresses all the challenges of digitising objects held in regional museums, galleries and Aboriginal keeping places.

Using QR Codes in Museums and Galleries

QR codes can be utilised for a broad range of purposes in museums and galleries including directing a user to a web page or an application, linking to audio guides, and conducting audience research. This guide provides an introduction to QR codes and how to use them.

The GIFT Box: tools and ways of working to help museums make richer digital experiences for their visitors

A set of open-source tools and ways of working, with the aim to help museums and other cultural heritage institutions to offer richer digital experiences for their visitors.

Digital Culture Compass

A FREE online toolkit to support arts, culture and heritage organisations to integrate digital technology into their work.

Digital Pathways

Resources to help support staff and volunteers in museums, arts and heritage organisations in developing digital skills and literacies, understand and use digital tools and channels, hand-picked by Culture24.

Artificial Intelligence: A Museum Planning Toolkit

A free planning toolkit to help museums develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects, developed by The Museums + AI Network.

GLAM Workbench

A collection of tools, tutorials, examples, and hacks to help you work with data from galleries, libraries, archives, and museums.

Social Media 101: Introduction to social media for cultural organisations – Recording

On 13 September 2021, Museums and Galleries of NSW presented as Social Media 101: Introduction to social media for cultural organisations as part of Let’s Get Digital.

An introduction to immersive technology for museums

This resource from Culture 24 explains what immersive technologies are, how they can be used and why / how museums are currently using them.

Social media for museums – best practice

Developed by Culture24, this social media resource is designed to be the go-to for people in museums who may not yet have decided if social media is something their museum should be on board with, and for those who are ready to take that first step.

Digital Heritage Hub

The Digital Heritage Hub was established to assist heritage organisations in the UK, by answering the most pressing and frequently asked digital questions – from how to use digital to generate revenue to how to use data for strategic decision making.

Guide to Digital Transformation in Cultural Heritage

A guide for supporting the digital transformation of the cultural heritage sector across Europe.  Developed by Culture 24 and partners.

Museum Trends: How your museum can collect and use data

This article from Locatify helps to demystify data, shows how to collect data and ultimately provides insights to improve your guest experience, marketing efforts and increase visitor numbers.

Digital Project Planning Guide for Museums and Institutions

A tool-kit for planning successful museum technology projects. Developed by CultureConnect, this guide helps you define your project scope to help establish what the project will and won't accomplish.

Digital Impact in Museums & Galleries

How can digital projects in museums and galleries be supported? One Further was commissioned by the Museums Association and Art Fund to investigate the impact of digital on museums and galleries, through the lens of the projects they've funded over the last couple of years.

Navigating Crystal Clear

This video takes you through the Crystal Clear guide, which covers some of the critical ‘how-to’ aspects of collection digitisation, including assembling your equipment or digitisation toolkit, object handling, conservation cleaning, consultation with First Nations communities, and your all-important digitisation workflows.

Search Engine Optimisation in the cultural sector

Search engine optimisation is the process of improving the quality and quantity of website traffic to a website or a web page from search engines. This article gives an overview of the topic and provides tips on making some simple changes with big results.

Toolkit for managing digital collections

Members of the London Museum Documentation Network have developed a new toolkit for managing accessioned digital collections.

Let’s Get Real – Building a thriving hybrid working environment

Culture24’s  Let’s Get Real Hybrid report contains strategic insights; case studies, and reflections on how cultural organisations can build a thriving hybrid working environment.

Digital Strategy for Museums Guide

A showcase of digital strategy documents and related resources from leading museums and cultural organisations.

Getting your organisation listed on Google (My Business)

Put your organisation information on Google Search and Maps, so that customers can find you, no matter what device they're using.

Facebook – how and why

Creating a Facebook page for your organisation.

Facebook Evaluation

A guide to evaluating the success and statistics of your Facebook page for small museums and galleries.

How to photograph a painting or two-dimensional artwork

Photographing prints and paintings for documentation or reproduction.

Twitter for influencers

Review those who follow you, identify the influencers and assist with developing your Twitter strategy.

Digital definitions for small museums

What exactly is a digital asset? Confused by technology and wanting to sort your modems from your routers and find out what a tablet is? Then let’s start at the very beginning.

Copyright and the Digital Economy

This discussion paper by the Australian Law Reform Commission is about copyright and the digital economy.

Digitising Your Collection – Part 1 Project Planning

This 'thinking about' resource takes you through the first step of digitising your collection - planning your project.

Digitising Your Collection – Part 2 The Golden Rule of Digitisation

This 'thinking about' resource takes you through the golden rule of digitisation, 'capture once, use many times'.

Digitising Your Collection – Part 3 Technical Specifications

This 'thinking about' resource takes you through the technical specifications of a digitisation project.

Digitising Your Collection – Part 4 Scanning and Handling Tips

This 'thinking about' resource takes you through some scanning and handling tips.

Digitising Your Collection – Part 5 Metadata and Access

This 'thinking about' resource discusses metadata and how to provide access to your digitised collection.

Culture is Digital

Policy Paper - Using technology to drive audience engagement, boosting the digital capability of cultural organisations and unleashing the creative potential of technology. Developed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, United Kingdom.

How-to: Do oral history

This is an M&G guide on how-to do oral history, including why and how.

How to use Instagram to engage audiences

Museum Hack look at four Instagram accounts from museums around the world who are doing it right when it comes to engaging audiences.

Digital Access to Collections Toolkit

Practical tools for volunteers and staff in small to medium museums, galleries, libraries and archives in Australia that are collecting digital items, undertaking digitisation, and providing online access to their collections.

Social Media Toolkit for Cultural Managers

This manual explores how organisations can expand their online brand so as to push both the reach and significance of their current social media efforts using a range of tools.

Using Social Media to Engage Audiences

Social media is an important tool, allowing you to communicate to your audience and for them to communicate with you.

An ABC of Twitter

A quick how to guide to Twitter.

Digital Transformation in the Museum Industry

Produced in conjunction with Museums & The Web, this 15 page report draws on the views of more than 70 professionals working in museums across the world to explore the digital strategies of today’s museums and how they link to visitor engagement plans and focus areas for investment.

Creating your digitisation strategy

How you approach the planning of your digitisation work really depends on what kind of digitisation it is. Collections Trust UK has put together this practical strategy guide to help you through the process.