1. Cultural policy and Australia’s cultural heritage: Issues and challenges in the GLAM landscape Wendy Davis and Katherine Howard Faculty of Science and Engineering Queensland University of Technology RAILS8, June 2012

2. Today’s presentation  Background  Commonwealth Cultural Policies: from Creative Nation (1994) to current situation  Responses of our national collecting institutions to the Cultural Policy Discussion Paper (2011)

3. GLAM  Guiding ‘principles’  Digital technology  Collaboration and convergence  Issues and Challenges  What’s in a name?  Multi-faceted discipline  Cultural policy focus

4. Cultural Policy in Australia  Creative Nation (1994)  Resonance with GLAM  Emphasis on user access  Recognition of new relationship between technology and culture  Institutional collaboration – “Distributed National Collection”

5. 2012 and beyond….  Cultural Policy Discussion Paper (2011)  National Broadband Network  10 year plan  Few specifics about “collecting institutions”

6. Visions for a GLAM future  National Gallery of Australia  National Library of Australia  National Archives of Australia  National Museum of Australia

7. National Gallery of Australia  No public response  Mission – to maximise a sense of place and national cultural heritage and identity

8. National Library of Australia  Active digitisation program (newspaper project, Trove)  Encourages user participation  Already engaged in collaborative activity  Need to continue digitisation projects to preserve cultural heritage for the future

9. National Archives of Australia  Serves both Government and public  “helping Australians better understand their heritage and democracy” (NAA, 2012)  Need to preserve cultural records for future generations  Increased access through digitisation

10. National Museum of Australia  “culture” more than “the arts”  Defines itself as a “collecting AND educational” institution  Emphasis also on use of digital technology to increase access for users

11. Looking for a GLAM future  From collaboration to convergence  The Digital Cultural Sphere Submission Paper (2011)  Distributed National Collection  Move past “in-house” collaboration  A national coordinating body – a “pan- institutional” cultural heritage policy

12. Can Australia become a GLAM nation? Wendy Davis @wendyldavis wendy.davis@connect.qut.edu.au Katherine Howard - @K1Howard k9.howard@student.qut.edu.au