Powerhouse Museum to launch open access image repository

"The Powerhouse Museum has moved to embrace Gov 2.0 principles, announcing plans to create an open-access image repository to showcase the organisations’ extensive image archive. The portal will initially begin with about 5000 images and grow to include the museum’s glass-plate negatives collection, including some 7903 images from the Tyrrell Photographic Collection, which documents city and country life in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Speaking ahead of her appearance at the Gov 2.0 Conference 2010 in Canberra this week, Powerhouse Museum manager, visual and digitisation services, Paula Bray, said the online archive, which will also grow to include some 50 per cent of all audio-visual content created by the Powerhouse Museum, was driven by Gov 2.0’s central premise of sharing information and engaging with citizens...."