About This Blog

Welcome to UKOLN’s Cultural Heritage blog. The blog aims to provide a key communication channel for UKOLN’s engagement with the cultural heritage sector, for disseminating information on UKOLN’s activities in this area and for encouraging discussion and debate on innovation and best practices.

Policies For This Blog

• The contents of the blog will primarily address issues related to the networked information services and their implications for the cultural heritage sector.
• The blog will provide an opportunity for UKOLN staff to ‘think out loud“: i.e. describe speculative ideas, thoughts which may occur to us, etc. which may be of interest to others or for which we would welcome feedback.
• The blog will seek to both disseminate information and encourage discussion and debate.
• The target audience includes developers, content creators, designers and policy maker across the UK’s cultural heritage sector, together with key players in the international community.
• The writing style, grammar and design of links will seek to make the blog readable.
• Minor changes to blog postings and comments may be made to fix errors.
• Comments which are felt to be spam or are inappropriate will be deleted.
• In exceptional circumstances, postings and comments may be deleted.
• The content of the blog will be published under a Creative Commons licence. This licence will also apply to comments made on the blog.

Quality Assurance For This Blog

The following quality assurance processed will be deployed:

• A spell-checker will be used prior to publishing a post.
• Periodic link-checks will be carried out to ensure that links from this blog are functional.
• Feedback on posts will be encouraged.

Changes To The Policies

Also note that:

• The scope, policies, target audiences and procedures may be subject to change in light of experiences, resource implications or changes in external factors.

Change Control

This page was first published on 2 January 2009.