Open Access Collections Case Studies

Open Access Collections: some case studies Jessica Coates Creative Commons Clinic October 2009 CRICOS No. 00213J Carpeted commons by Glutnix, http://www.flickr.com/photos/glutnix/2079709803/in/pool-ccswagcontest07 available under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 licence, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

Powerhouse Museum CRICOS No. 00213J

released 1500 public domain photographs to Flickr Commons

‘ Play’ worksheets available under CC BY-NC

encouraged CC for ‘photo of the day’

collection descriptions and data under CC

Woman holding decorated bicycle, Phillips Glass Plate Negative Collection, Powerhouse Museum, www.powerhousemuseum.com/ collection/database/collection=Phillips_Glass_Plate_Negative

20x increased visitation

crowd-sourced metadata

unexpected discoveries (eg locations)‏

partnerships (eg ABC)‏

reduced costs for Australian community and schools

didn’t hurt sales

promotional + other benefits = net +ve $ Open Content Licensing and the Future of Collections, Paula Bray, http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/bray/bray.html

Powerhouse Museum CRICOS No. 00213J Powerhouse Museum collection record http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/27/another-opac-discovery-the-gambey-dip-circle-and-the-value-of-minimal-tombstone-data/ “ If your organisation is still having doubts about the value of making available un-edited, un-verified, ageing tombstone data then it is worth showing examples like these.” - Seb Chan

Australian newspapers online

Launched by the NLA, with partners, Aug 2009

547,430 pages and 6M articles available for full-text search

AUSTRALIA part of the Creative Commons international initiative CRICOS No. 00213J Crowd-sourcing text corrections – 1,300 volunteers have corrected 3.4 million lines from 160,000 pages Courier Mail, Australian Newspapers, http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/24979

Australian newspapers online AUSTRALIA part of the Creative Commons international initiative CRICOS No. 00213J http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/12

Tropenmuseum

312 photographs now on Wikicommons - for use in Wikipedia (4th most visited site on Internet)

avoided image copyright issues because volunteer photographers own material

AUSTRALIA part of the Creative Commons international initiative

Museum of the tropics, Amsterdam

“ Wikipedia loves Art/NL” project - invited public to photograph collections and upload to Wikicommons

Ingang Tropenmuseum by GerardM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ingang_Tropenmuseum.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropenmuseum

Tropenmuseum AUSTRALIA part of the Creative Commons international initiative It was an easy way to…engage new audiences…[and] spread the stories from the collection…In the end I think more people will visit the museum and look online. – Susanne Ton, Manager of Multimedia Production, Tropenmuseum http://www.youtube.com/user/wikimedianl#play/all/uploads-all/0/4aPatvL5kvo Images being used in articles and seen by audiences that have no connection to museum – with link back http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropenmuseum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_karbala http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iran_Battle_of_Karbala_19th_century.jpg

Click and Flick

individuals to contribute to PictureAustralia by adding to Flickr groups

encourages CC licensing

55,000 photos contributed since 2006

Now 100 remixes through Re-Picture Australia project

AUSTRALIA part of the Creative Commons international initiative Y.A.P.O.M.A.S. by :/ www.flickr.com/photos/angelltsang/30211494/ The Argyle Stairs 1930 to 2008 by Rossco http://www.flickr.com/photos/45144498@N00/2510877137/ Something about the dog on the tuckerbox by Broken Simulacra http://www.flickr.com/photos/broken_simulacra/91355505/ Creative Commons licensing “encourages content contributors to think in terms of a librarian keeping in mind the public benefit of providing maximum access to content as part of Australia’s national collection.” – Fiona Hooton, Picture Australia http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Australia_%27Click_and_Flick%27

Thanks

www.ip.qut.edu.au

creativecommons.org

wiki.creativecommons.org/casestudies

creativecommons.org.au

info@creativecommons.org.au

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