2. What
does
Open
mean?
Digital
content
or
data
is
open
that
is
free
to
use,
re-‐use
and
re-‐distribute
without
technical
or
legal
restric8on
(see
h2p://opendefini7on.org)
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6. What
is
GLAM?
Galleries,
Libraries,
Archives
and
Museums ✔
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7. What
we
do
• We
are
an
ini7a7ve
of
the
Open
Knowledge
Founda7on
• Supported
by
a
network
of
organisa7ons
working
to
open
up
content
and
data
held
by
GLAMs
which
includes
the
likes
of
Europeana,
the
Digital
Public
Library
of
America,
Crea7ve
Commons
and
Wikimedia
• A
provider
of
exper7se
to
GLAMs
on
open
issues
• A
provider
of
open
source
tools
for
working
with
the
cultural
heritage
content
and
data
@OpenGLAM
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8. Explore out-of-copyright works from digital
collections across the web through our online journal.
Want an unusual collection from your institution to be
featured? Get in touch!
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 7
10. Different layers of data
• Metadata
-‐
e.g.
author,
provenance,
date
• Digi7sed
Objects
-‐
e.g.
book
scans,
digital
photos
• User
generated
content
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 9
12. The
Digital
Dream
• A
world
in
which
our
shared
cultural
heritage,
the
map
of
humanity,
is
open
to
all
regardless
of
their
background
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 10
13. The
Digital
Dream
• A
world
in
which
our
shared
cultural
heritage,
the
map
of
humanity,
is
open
to
all
regardless
of
their
background
• A
world
in
which
people
are
no
longer
passive
consumers
of
cultural
content
created
by
an
elite,
but
contribute,
par8cipate,
create
and
share
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 10
15. Why
Open?
1. Helping
GLAMs
fulfill
their
public
mission
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 11
16. Why
Open?
1. Helping
GLAMs
fulfill
their
public
mission
2. Larger
audience
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Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 11
17. Why
Open?
1. Helping
GLAMs
fulfill
their
public
mission
2. Larger
audience
3. Allow
your
audiences
to
par7cipate
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 11
18. Why
Open?
1. Helping
GLAMs
fulfill
their
public
mission
2. Larger
audience
3. Allow
your
audiences
to
par7cipate
4. Connect
and
contextualise
collec7ons
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 11
19. Why
Open?
1. Helping
GLAMs
fulfill
their
public
mission
2. Larger
audience
3. Allow
your
audiences
to
par7cipate
4. Connect
and
contextualise
collec7ons
5. Keep
memory
ins7tu7ons
relevant
in
a
Digital
Age
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 11
20. Public
Mission
"Enable
access
to
everyone
who
wants
to
do
research"
-‐
Bri$sh
Library,
Our
Mission
and
2020
Vision
"Our
core
values
are:
accessibility,
sustainability,
innova7on
and
coopera7on."
-‐Na$onal
Library
of
the
Netherlands,
Our
Mission
and
Vision
"To
provide
diverse
audiences
with
the
best
quality
experience
and
op7mum
access
to
our
collec7ons,
physically
and
digitally."
-‐
the
Victoria
&
Albert
Museum,
Mission
and
Objec$ves
"The
Federal
Archives
have
the
legal
responsibility
of
permanently
preserving
the
federal
archival
documents
and
making
them
available
for
use."
-‐
German
Federal
Archives
-‐
Responsibili7es
The
Na7onal
Gallery
of
Denmark
is
Denmark’s
premier
museum
of
art.
Through
Accessibility,
educa7on,
and
exhibi7on
-‐
Danish
Na$onal
Gallery
-‐
Mission
@OpenGLAM
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21. Public
Mission
The
Na7onal
Library
of
Israel
was
established
by
law
to
"collect,
preserve,
cul7vate
and
endow
the
treasures
of
knowledge,
heritage
and
culture
in
general,
with
an
emphasis
on
the
Land
of
Israel,
the
State
of
Israel
and
the
Jewish
people
in
par7cular."
“We
are
delighted
by
the
growing
number
of
friends
of
the
Israel
Museum
who
have
become
'virtual'
visitors
to
our
website.
However,
when
our
'virtual'
friends
become
real
visitors
to
us
in
Jerusalem,
we
know
that
our
website
has
served
its
true
purpose.”
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Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 13
22. Global
Audience
• Le
Louvre
about
8.8
million
visits
a
year1
• The
poten7al
audience
when
your
collec7ons
are
on
the
web:
o 2.27
billion
-‐
34.3%
of
the
world's
popula7on
• Growing
body
of
evidence
that
the
more
open
your
collec7ons
are
the
more
hits
they
a2ract
• Find
audience
for
unusual
collec7ons
1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/8993072/The-Louvre-attracts-record-visitor-numbers.html
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM#Quantitative
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Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 14
23. The
Open
Images
Project
Study
by
the
Open
Images
projects
in
the
Netherlands
-‐
2.5
million
views
a
month1
1500 items on Wikimedia
commons about Dutch
history.
Being used in 500 articles in
the Netherlands
More than 700 times in 63
different languages
Average article views per
1. http://www.slideshare.net/DM2E/open-cultuur-data-14469640. month: more than 2,5 million
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 15
24. Wikimedia
Commons
• A
database
of
14,810,554
freely
usable
media
files
to
which
anyone
can
contribute.
• Images
being
reused
on
Wikipedia
• Wikipedia
is
the
6th
largest
website
in
the
world1
with
the
English
Wikipedia
receiving
551
million
views
a
day 2
1. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page#
2. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 16
25. Wikimedia
Commons
• A
database
of
14,810,554
freely
usable
media
files
to
which
anyone
can
contribute.
• Images
being
reused
on
Wikipedia
• Wikipedia
is
the
6th
largest
website
in
the
world1
with
the
English
Wikipedia
receiving
551
million
views
a
day 2
The Israel Museum has joined
the Google Art project and they
are ‘happy’ that users can not
download the images from
there. Not realising, that many
1. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page# of these images can already be
2. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm found on Wikimedia Commons,
in full resolution.
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 17
33. Par8cipa8on
• Visitors
and
users
can
ac7vely
contribute
to
aspects
of
your
collec7ons:
o Cura7on
o Enrichment
and
improvement
o Provide
content
for
new
collec7ons
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 24
34. HistoryPin
• Allows
users
to
submit
their
photographs,
videos
and
audio
clips
that
can
be
placed
on
a
map
and
7meline
• Collabora7ng
with
over
200
cultural
ins7tu7ons
worldwide
• Let's
communi7es
tell
their
stories
about
their
history
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 25
35. Danish
Mobile
PlaKorm
Merete Sanderhoff at the OKFestival in Helsinki 2012
Merete Sanderhoff at the OKFestival 2012 in Helsinki
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 26
37. The
21st
Century
GLAM
It
remains:
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 27
38. The
21st
Century
GLAM
It
remains:
• The
key
preserver
of
our
shared
cultural
heritage
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 27
39. The
21st
Century
GLAM
It
remains:
• The
key
preserver
of
our
shared
cultural
heritage
• An
authorita7ve
source
of
informa7on
and
exper7se
about
your
collec7ons
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 27
40. The
21st
Century
GLAM
It
remains:
• The
key
preserver
of
our
shared
cultural
heritage
• An
authorita7ve
source
of
informa7on
and
exper7se
about
your
collec7ons
• You
curate,
contextualise
and
tells
stories
about
your
collec7ons
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 27
42. The
21st
Century
GLAM
It
stands
to
gain:
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 28
43. The
21st
Century
GLAM
It
stands
to
gain:
• An
audience
far
beyond
the
wildest
dreams
of
its
first
founders
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 28
44. The
21st
Century
GLAM
It
stands
to
gain:
• An
audience
far
beyond
the
wildest
dreams
of
its
first
founders
• Connec7ons
to
other
collec7ons
that
contextualise
stories
about
its
objects
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 28
45. The
21st
Century
GLAM
It
stands
to
gain:
• An
audience
far
beyond
the
wildest
dreams
of
its
first
founders
• Connec7ons
to
other
collec7ons
that
contextualise
stories
about
its
objects
• A
closer
to
connec7on
to
its
audience
(and
the
improvements
to
its
digital
collec7ons
that
come
with
that)
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 28
47. Challenges
• Concerns
over
lost
revenue
streams
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 29
48. Challenges
• Concerns
over
lost
revenue
streams
• A2rac7on
of
private
schemes
that
lockdown
heritage
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 29
49. Challenges
• Concerns
over
lost
revenue
streams
• A2rac7on
of
private
schemes
that
lockdown
heritage
• Worries
about
the
misuse
of
data
and
content
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 29
50. Challenges
• Concerns
over
lost
revenue
streams
• A2rac7on
of
private
schemes
that
lockdown
heritage
• Worries
about
the
misuse
of
data
and
content
• Legal
uncertain7es:
licensing,
orphan
works
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 29
51. Challenges
• Concerns
over
lost
revenue
streams
• A2rac7on
of
private
schemes
that
lockdown
heritage
• Worries
about
the
misuse
of
data
and
content
• Legal
uncertain7es:
licensing,
orphan
works
• Technical
challenges:
standards,
tools
@OpenGLAM
Sunday 18 November 2012(w) 29
