The National Audit: Experience and Reflections

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The National Audit Experience and Reflections

• Jane Ryder, Director
• Scottish Museums Council

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National Audit

• The Rationale to inform policy and planning
• A report not a portal
• Interoperability in mind

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The Principle of the Distributed National
Collection

• An overview of collections in the public domain
• Evidenced based policy
• Historic funding status
• Significance
• Size
• Composition
• Location

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Describing the Distributed National Collection

• Collections level
• Agreed framework and terminology

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Describing the Distributed National Collection

• Micro cultural assumptions
• What is a collection?
• Does it matter?

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Describing the Distributed National Collection

• Collection types 20 types, 181 categories
• Inconsistent medium, application, provenance
• Significance as an attribute
• Cornucopia compared
• Collection types
• National
• Collection strengths
• Evidence base

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Implications for Museums?

• Audit trail
• Spectrum
• Management implications

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• Implications for the National Organisations?
• Implications for government policy?