One of the topics that has come up in earlier conversations on the Collections Catalogue is Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is one of the first places people go to get information on all sorts of topics, including collections and their hosting institutions. Wikipedia is only a secondary source of information, therefore it relies upon primary sources of information, such as the Collection Catalogue.
What this means in practice is that the Collection Catalogue would need to provide the sort of information that Wikipedia wants. This might include more general information about the collection, its history and the people associated with it. It also means that the Catalogue should be easily and stably citable.
There may be also be information that a collection might consider important to share in a primary source, but is not strictly relevant to the Collection Catalogue. For this reason there should perhaps be sufficient scope for free-text entries in the Catalogue.
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