k-int will partner with the Imperial War Museum and University College London to deliver this innovative project funded under the  Digital Research and Development Fund for Arts and Culture run by Arts Council England, the Arts and Humanities Research Counil (AHRC) and Nesta.

K-Int, in collaboration with Gooii Ltd, used the Open Culture 2011 event in Brimingham to announce the launch of a new product - Collections Connect.  Collections Connect has been developed based on work already undertaken for clients including Museum of London, National Maritime Museum, Imperial War Museum and Horniman Museum.

K-Int began work on 1 June on a new 18 month collaboarive R&D project part funded by the Technology Strategy Board's  "Metadata: increasing the value of digital content" programme.  The project is led by Soutron Ltd with Collections Trust and the Chartered institute of Management as partners in addition to k-int.

K-Int is part of a consortium of 26 organisations, including systems vendors and cultural institutions from 11 european countries, which has submitted a proposal to the European Commission's ICT Policy Support programme.  The proposed 30 month project will open up millions of new records to the european public via the europeana portal by improving the co-ordination and workflow between institutional collections management systems, aggregators (such as Culture Grid) and europeana.

Following the official launch of the new culture grid website, there has been a massive upsurge in interest in the Grid, which now contains over 1 million metadata records.

k-int are currently working with the Museum of London to implement a new, RDF based, Collections Information Integration Module (CIIM) as part of the Museum's Collections Online Delivery service.

Collections Trust have launched a campaign to promote the benefits of the Culture Gird to organisations in the Museums, Archives and Libraries Sector.  More details are on the Collections Trust website.

The k-int website has been uodated (about time, too, we hear people say!). As committed supporters of open source software we've chosen to implement the new site using drupal as we feel this currently represents one of the most functional and usable content management systems available. Hopefully this will encourage us update the site more frequently in future.

From 1st July 2009, the Peoples Network website moved to new home.  Although it looks superficially pretty much the same as before, it is now being driven entirely by the Collections Trusts new Culture Grid platform, based around k-int's open source aggregator platform.

k-int are participating in the JISC funded FixRep project which started in April 2009.  The project is led by UKOLN with the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) also being a partner.