Cultural heritage collections are more digitized than ever.

Cultural heritage collections are more digitized than ever.

And researchers, students, and curious members of the public still leave without finding what they came for.

Not because the records aren't there. Because the systems built around them were never designed to bridge the gap between how knowledge gets cataloged and how people actually go looking for it.

I've spent the last several years building a prototype to examine this problem directly. LinkedCulture runs across eight cultural heritage institutions and more than two hundred thousand records. The first paper in the research series is published on Zenodo.

This video is where the argument starts.

Watch collection videos: https://lnkd.in/eTEKcArq

Read the paper: https://linkedculture.org/research/discovery-architecture-for-cultural-heritage

Try out the prototype: https://linkedculture.org/