TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO EVERY OBJECT IN EVERY VENUE ON THE PLANET
It's a big ask. We're just getting started and we have to remind ourselves that even Wikipedia started with one page.Why is this goal important? for two reasons:
1. Venues hold a lot of knowledge, but it is mainly hidden from view unless you can make a visit to site. True, if you want to find out more about the Mona Lisa then you can go and see it or there's lots of information online already. National treasures in national venues are not the focus. The focus is the millions of great objects that lie in the thousands of venues around the world that don't have the exposure or budgets of the the Louvre. By aggregating objects across venues we enable users to follow their interests or passions more effectively than if all those objects are sitting in individual venue websites. Our message is 'bring us your objects' and we will increase awareness and interest in your collection.
2. Many venues are free to visit, but they are not free to operate. They are often run on a shoe-string with a mix of full time staff, volunteers, students, part-timers and friends. While funding can be found for buildings and collections, operational budgets are very tight and lack of technical staff can be real problem. Digitising a collection can also take up a lot of time and effort,and the use of new technologies is challenging. So our aim is to provide a platform that helps venues to generate revenues / recover costs, promote their site and increase satisfaction.
If you like the ideas behind OOKL, but would like support in building your own learning platform or mobile solution please contact us at info@ooklnet.com.
Go on, get OOKLing now!
Where does the word OOKL come from? It's an anagram of LOOK - and we hope people will look at the world around them with the same sense of wonder and excitement that children do.
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