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Open Authority Example #12: Cast  Your Vote!

The National Archives and Records Administration

Website: The Records of Rights VOTE

New York Times: ‘Rights’ Exhibit to Display Documents From the Mighty and the Modest

Join the debate and cast your vote! Help National Archives curators select the first original landmark document to be featured when Records of Rights opens on December 12.

The Today's Document Tumblr has been showing for some time that the National Archives gets digital engagement. Now they're taking it up a notch, using the existing Today's Document community to get the word out on this awesome example of Open Authority--crowd-curation at its finest!

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Open Authority Example #11: Our Museum

Website: Our Museum

Our Museum: Communities and Museums as Active Partners is a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Special Initiative to facilitate a process of development and organisational change within museums and galleries committed to active partnership with their communities, with the ambition of affecting the museum sector more widely.

This initiative will:

support and develop museums and galleries to place community needs, values,  aspirations and active collaboration at the core of their work;

involve communities and individuals in core decision-making processes and to implement the decisions taken;

ensure that museums and galleries play an effective role in developing community skills, through volunteering, training, apprenticeships, etc.;

share exemplary new models with the broader museum sector.