Although written for Canadians, this is a very useful practical guide for smaller and larger organisations entering a partnership. The content is simple, clear and includes useful diagrams on levels of partnerships illustrating mere cooperation to a collaboration and then integration.

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Welcome to the participation portal. Whether you are new to the field or a veteran participation practitioner there should be something here to support your work or develop your interests.

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It was Bill Thompson who said it. We had just finished lunch at the Fitzwilliam Museum, when Bill set his cup of tea down in its saucer and said 'Wouldn't it be great if we could give a 3D printed copy of a museum object to every child in the country'.

Somebody made a wisecrack about sounding like a fantastic opportunity for disposal, and the conversation carried on to other things. 

But the idea stayed with me. And the more I think about it, the more I think 'why not?'. It's like an itch I can't seem to scratch, so I am sharing it here in the hope that someone will either tell me why it won't work, or we'll start a movement!

Jisc and Ithaka S+R have announced the launch “Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content”, a new report aimed at helping digital projects to thrive.

This report, which provides a close look at three institutions (UCL, Imperial War Museums and the National Library of Wales) in the United Kingdom confirms:

• How fragmented the digital landscape is at universities and within other organizations
• How there are examples of good practice within and outside higher education that all can learn from but that greater co-ordination is required to deliver this at a UK level
• How little the topic of post-build sustainability comes up at the higher levels of administration
• How risk is present within the current system, concerning the sustainability of digital content

More than 6,500 newly-digitised objects from University College London and the University of Reading’s diverse museum collections are now openly accessible to students, teachers and the public at large, thanks to funding from Jisc. They are available via Culture Grid, the UK gateway to heritage resources, which is managed by the Collections Trust.

The objects include rare Ancient Egyptian artefacts brought to life in twenty-first-century 3D, digital images of zoological specimens in glass jars, strange and beautiful anatomical prints, sixteenth-century portraits, and intriguing nineteenth-century scientific gadgets. The digital artefacts encompass a range of disciplines from sciences to the arts.

A useful guide on reflective practice with regard to partnership, which can be adapted and applied to any context. The focus is on lessons learned which could be useful for any practitioner as they are self-critical and reflective.

An excellent practical toolkit that can be used in any context. As a ready-to-use guide and toolkit, it addresses through a questionnaire, all aspects of power relations in a partnership in a longer term project over many years, it can also be used for shorter term projects.

This chapter explores the practice of two intangible heritage practitioners working on sensitive histories of heritage of black communities in South Africa.