Recommendation 19

However, the Department agreed that it could do more and play a stronger convening role.44 For example, it was establishing a digital data and technology forum for museums’ and galleries’ digital information officers to address common technical challenges and share good practice around the use of AI and the digitisation of their collections. It could draw on a number of examples of the museums and galleries digitising their collections, such as the Natural History Museum’s leadership of a 10-year, £155 million national infrastructure programme to digitise the UK’s entire natural science collection, and the British Museum’s £10 million five-year project to digitise its own collection.45