Most of our early use scenarios are not yet ready to share, but here we set out our vision of the impact MDS can have on research, on UK museums, and on the specific use case of Art UK.
The first MDS Hackathon, March 2025
Over the course of two days in Leicester, at the beginning of March 2025, a group of coders, curators, collections management professionals and academics got together to begin exploring how the data within the Museum Data Service could be used in a variety of ways. The video below shares some of the highlights and takeaways from that event.
Our ten-year vision for research
In this video, Professor Ross Parry, Director of the University of Leicester’s Institute for Digital Culture, explains how MDS will transform the way researchers access and think about museum collections over coming years.
Our ten-year vision for museums
Here, Kevin Gosling, Chief Executive of Collections Trust, explains how MDS will be a gamechanger for UK museums over the next decade or so.
What MDS means for Art UK
Finally, Andy Ellis, Chief Executive of Art UK, describes how MDS will help his team speed up and scale up the way they publish the UK’s public art collection at artuk.org.
These videos were recorded at the official launch of MDS on 12 September 2024. We are very grateful to Bloomberg Philanthropies for hosting the event and sharing the footage. To access the caption on/off control, click the three vertical dots in the bottom right corner of each video screen.