Born Digital, Born Slippery - Data Modelling for Born Digital/Hybrid objects (March 2022)

The report Preserving and sharing born-digital and hybrid objects from and across the National Collection discusses the challenges for cultural heritage institutions in cataloguing, preserving, and providing access to four born digital and hybrid objects/projects. This response looks at the issues brought up by those discussions, in particular for the purpose of cataloguing, and the extent, within existing cataloguing standards, they can be supported. Where there does not appear to be support within current standards, model development activity is proposed to allow the expansion of the current `born physical` focused cataloguing standards to also handle born digital and hybrid object cataloguing.