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Table 4: Digital assets (from Mapping Digitised Collections report)
Updated 8 January 2020
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| Institution name | Landing page URL | Is it possible to tell the total number of records with associated digital assets? | Number of records with digital images/media | Is it possible to filter only records with associated digital assets? | Does metadata specific to a digital asset include a reference URL for citation purposes? | Is the licensing status of digital assets clearly stated, either within specific metadata or in a general policy covering the site as a whole? | Can the user search for digital assets by licensing status (eg to find items available for re-use)? | Is the user invited to download digital assets, where licensing permits? | Does the download process record any data about the user or proposed use (beyond automated analytics)? | Does any data-sharing API include metadata to allow digital assets to be used by others? |
| Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford | http://collections.ashmolean.org/ | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| Barber Institute of Fine Arts | http://mimsy.bham.ac.uk/info.php?f=option3&type=browse&t=objects&s=The+Barber+Institute+of+Fine+Arts | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | http://www.bmagic.org.uk/search | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Black Country Living Museum | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Bolton Museum and Art Gallery | http://www.boltonlams.co.uk/collections/ | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Bowes Museum | http://bowes.adlibhosting.com/search/simple | Yes | 4,626 | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Bristol Museum and Art Gallery | http://museums.bristol.gov.uk/ | No | ? | Yes | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| British Library - British Newspaper Archive | Not set | Yes | 30,049,864 | No | No | Yes - general | No | No | https://www.bl.uk/on-demand/api-integration | Yes |
| British Library - Digitised manuscripts | https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/ | No | ? | No | No | Yes - general | No | No | https://www.bl.uk/on-demand/api-integration | Yes |
| British Library - Endangered Archives Programme | https://eap.bl.uk/ | No | ? | No | No | Yes - general | No | No | https://www.bl.uk/on-demand/api-integration | Yes |
| British Library - Sounds online | https://sounds.bl.uk/ | Yes | 95,000 | No | No | Yes - general | No | Not set | https://www.bl.uk/on-demand/api-integration | Yes |
| British Motor Museum | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| British Museum | https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx | Yes | 1,018,471 | Ye | No | Yes - general | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Burnham-on-Crouch and District Museum | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Chelmsford Museum | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum [The Wilson] | http://agmlib.cheltenham.gov.uk/home | No | ? | Yes | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| Colchester Castle Museum | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Compton Verney | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Corinium Museum | http://adlib.everyoneactive.com/AIS5/home | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Courtauld Gallery, University of London | http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/ | Yes | 43,167 | Yes | No | Yes - general | No | Yes | No | No |
| Curtis Museum [Hampshire Cultural Trust] | http://hctcollections.org.uk/ | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Derby Museum and Art Gallery | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Dulwich Picture Gallery | https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/explore-the-collection | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Durham University Oriental Museum | https://www.dur.ac.uk/oriental.museum/whatshere/discover/ | No | ? | No | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| English Heritage | https://archive.historicengland.org.uk/ | No | ? | Yes | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| Ferens Art Gallery | http://museumcollections.hullcc.gov.uk/collections/ | No | ? | Yes | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| Government Art Collection | https://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/collection/ | No | ? | No | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| Hall Place and Gardens | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Hastings Museum and Art Gallery | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Herbert Art Gallery and Museum | http://coventrycollections.org/ | Yes | 3,026 | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Hereford Museum and Art Gallery | https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/info/200172/history_lives_here/638/museums_collections_search | No | ? | No | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| Hertford Museum | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Horniman Museum and Gardens | https://www.horniman.ac.uk/collections | Yes | 51,451 | Yes | Yes | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| Horsham Museum and Art Gallery | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Hull and East Riding Museum | http://museumcollections.hullcc.gov.uk/collections/ | No | ? | Yes | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| Hull Maritime Museum | http://museumcollections.hullcc.gov.uk/collections/ | No | ? | Yes | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| Imperial War Museums | https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search | Yes | 277,356 | Yes | No | Yes - item | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Ipswich Museum | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Jewry Wall Museum/New Walk Museum and Art Gallery | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Lady Lever Art Gallery [Chinese collections] | http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/chinese/search.aspx | Yes | 1,036 | No | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| Leeds Museums | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Louth Museum | http://collections.louthmuseum.org.uk/ | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Manchester Art Gallery | http://manchesterartgallery.org/collections/search/ | Yes | 38,298 | Yes | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| Manchester Museum | http://harbour.man.ac.uk/mmcustom/narratives/ | No | ? | No | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| Mill Green Museum and Mill | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Museum in The Park: Stroud District Museum Service | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Museum of English Rural Life | http://www.reading.ac.uk/adlib/ | Yes | 1,092 | Yes | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| Museum of London | https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/collections | No | 73,458 | Yes | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| National Army Museum | https://collection.nam.ac.uk/ | No | ? | No | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| National Gallery | https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/search | No | ? | No | No | Yes - general | No | Yes | No | No |
| National Holocaust Centre | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| National Portrait Gallery | https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/advanced-search.php | Yes | 141,000 | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| National Trust | http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/ | No | 500,110 | Yes | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| Natural History Museum | http://data.nhm.ac.uk/ | Yes | 2,020,934 | Yes | No | Yes - general | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery | http://norfolkmuseumscollections.org/#!/home | No | 39,606 | Yes | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Ordsall Hall Museum | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Oxfordshire Museum | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| People's History Museum | https://phm.org.uk/collection-search/ | No | ? | No | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology | http://petriecat.museums.ucl.ac.uk/search.aspx | No | ? | Yes | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| Poole Museum | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Portable Antiquities Scheme | https://finds.org.uk/database | Yes | 547,292 | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Roman Baths Museum | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Royal Air Force Museums | https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/default.aspx | Yes | 270 | No | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| Royal Albert Memorial Museum | https://rammcollections.org.uk/ | No | ? | No | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | Yes |
| Royal Armouries | https://collections.royalarmouries.org/#/objects | No | ? | No | No | Yes - general | No | Yes | No | No |
| Royal Botanic Gardens Kew - Herbarium Collection | http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/navigator.do | No | ? | Yes | ? | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| Royal Engineers Museum, Library and Archive | http://81.145.194.74/ | Yes | 1 | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Saffron Walden Museum | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Salford Museum and Art Gallery | https://salfordmuseum.salford.gov.uk/newsearch.aspx?q=1 | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Salisbury Museum | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Science Museum Group | https://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/ | Yes | 39,712 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Sir John Soane_s Museum | http://collections.soane.org/home?_ga=2.231728345.792488493.1548431588-291737735.1548431588 | Yes | 42,251 | Yes | No | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Swindon Museum and Art Gallery | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Tate | https://www.tate.org.uk/search | Yes | 64,478 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| The National Archives | https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ | Yes | 8,970,696 | Yes | No | Yes - general | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Torquay Museum | http://www.torquaymuseum.org/research/modes-database | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| University of Cambridge Library | http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/ | No | ? | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
| University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology | http://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/index.php?cmd=objects | Yes | 21,574 | Yes | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology | https://www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/collection/online | Yes | 0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Victoria and Albert Museum | https://collections.vam.ac.uk/ | Yes | 769,288 | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Wallace Collection | https://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&moduleFunction=search | Yes | 4,458 | Yes | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| Warwickshire Museum | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Weald and Downland Open Air Museum | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Whitworth Art Gallery | http://gallerysearch.ds.man.ac.uk/ | No | ? | Yes | No | Yes - general | No | No | No | No |
| Worcestershire County Museum | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| York Museums | https://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/collections/search/ | Yes | 39,503 | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |