INTEGRATING FOR ACCESS:DELIVERING AGGREGATED COLLECTIONS INFORMATION AT THE V&A

True accessibility to a museum’s collections in the 21st century must involve electronic access to its documentation assets. Delivering this requires museums to identify and negotiate end user requirements, to re-purpose material, to maximise limited resources for content creation, and to develop the technology for capture and delivery. Where information lies in disparate systems, ways must be found of joining information sources to both maximise and simplify access to content. The V&A’s experiences undertaking the Core Systems Integration Project, which initially aims to aggregate and deliver museum object, bibliographic and archival data, provide a useful example for others engaging with these issues