The document summarizes presentations from the OpenGLAM Working Group at Wikimania 2014 in London. It describes initiatives in several countries to open cultural data from galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) and promote best practices. The Netherlands program includes OpenGLAM masterclasses to train GLAMs on open data. Germany's program included a cultural data hackathon. Switzerland conducted an OpenGLAM benchmark survey of heritage institutions and a pilot project encouraging institutions to contribute to Wikipedia.

1. Promoting OpenGLAM – Exchange of
Experiences and Best Practices
9 August 2014 – Wikimania, London
Open Knowledge | OpenGLAM Working Group
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National History Museum (London), Wikimedia Commons, Chiuchihmin, CC-by-sa 3.0

2. ▶ Introducing the OpenGLAM Initiative
Joris Pekel
▶ Presenting Approaches from various countries
• The Netherlands – OpenGLAM Master Classes
Maarten Brinkerink
• Germany – Cultural Data Hackathon
Helene Hahn
• Switzerland – «Swiss Heritage Institutions on Wikipedia» / OpenGLAM
Benchmark Survey
Beat Estermann
▶ Questions / Discussion
Welcome!

3. OpenGLAM initiative
▶ An initiative of Open Knowledge
▶ Supported by a network of organisations and
local initiatives working to open up content
and data held by GLAMs which includes the
likes of Europeana, the Digital Public Library
of America, Creative Commons and
Wikimedia
▶ A provider of expertise to GLAMs on open
issues
▶ A growing network of open culture
evangelists in various countries
@jpekel

5. Release digital information about the
artefacts (metadata) into the public domain
using an appropriate legal tool such as the
Creative Commons Zero Waiver.
http://openglam.org/principles/

6. Keep digital representations
of works for which copyright has expired
(public domain works) in the
public domain by not adding
new rights to them.
http://openglam.org/principles/

7. When publishing data
make an explicit and robust statement of
your wishes and expectations with respect to
reuse and repurposing of the descriptions,
the whole data collection, and subsets
of the collection.
http://openglam.org/principles/

8. When publishing data
use open file formats which are machine-
readable.
http://openglam.org/principles/

9. Opportunities to engage audiences
in novel ways on the web
should be pursued.
http://openglam.org/principles/

10. http://openglam.org
@openGLAM
Join us!
@jpekel

11. The Netherlands
Maarten Brinkerink
mbrinkerink@beeldengeluid.nl
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Open Cultuur Data

12. OPEN CULTURE DATA:
Opening GLAM Data Bottum-Up
Masterclass on Open Culture for
GLAMs
Maarten Brinkerink
London, August 9, 2014
t: @OpenCultuurData | #opencultuurdata

13. WHAT?
Open Cultuur Data (Open Culture Data) is a network of
cultural professionals, developers, designers, copyright
specialists and open data experts, that opens data from
the cultural heritage sector and encourages the
development of valuable cultural applications that
started in September 2011. This makes culture
accessible in new ways to a broader public.
The aim of Open Cultuur Data is to anchor the cultural
sector in the international open data movement.

14. HOW? 1/2
Open Cultuur Data supports the cultural heritage sector
in the release of culture data in the following way:
• encourage making more open culture data available
• collecting and disseminating open culture data via an
open digital infrastructure
• collecting and sharing knowledge and experience with
open culture data
• encouraging the making of new applications based on
open culture data

15. HOW? 2/2
Open Cultuur Data achieves this through the following
activities:
• workshops, presentations and publications on open
culture data
• support cultural institutions in opening up their
datasets
• masterclass open data for cultural heritage institutions
• competition with special awards for applications made
with open culture data

16. THE CLASS OF 2014

17. THE CONCEPT OF THE MASTERCLASS
• Front-runners and alumni teach their colleagues
• Domain experts are involved
• Based on registration (incl. motivation and dataset)
• Small fee
• Reader and other material is openly available

18. THE MASTERCLASS PROGRAMME (FIVE AFTERNOONS AND HOMEWORK)
1. Introduction, getting acquainted and case description
2. Intellectual Property and Open Licenses
3. Technology, reuse and applications
4. Policy, benefits and risks
5. Lessons-learned

19. http://www.opencultuurdata.nl/about
https://p2pu.org/en/groups/open-glam/
http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/
open-culture-data-opening-glam-data-bottom-
up/
mbrinkerink@beeldengeluid.nl
@mbrinkerink
@OpenCultuurData
#opencultuurdata
THANKS! QUESTIONS?

20. Germany
Helene Hahn, Project Lead OpenGLAM / Open Culture
helene.hahn@okfn.org
Open Knowledge Foundation Germany

21. Photos:CC-BYVolkerAguerasGaeng

23. Photos:CC-BYVolkerAguerasGaeng

24. Background picture Coding Da Vinci: Public Domain / CC-0 (Helene Hahn)

25. Switzerland
Beat Estermann
beat.estermann@bfh.ch
OpenGLAM CH / Bern University of Applied Sciences

26. Working Group of the Swiss chapter of Open Knowledge
▶ Mission:
▶ Promote and facilitate the adoption of the OpenGLAM principles in
Switzerland
▶ Members:
▶ NGOs (Open Knowledge; Wikimedia; Creative Commons)
▶ GLAMs
▶ Research and educational institutions
▶ Service providers
At present: ca. 50 people subscribed to the mailing list; ca. 20-25 people
participating in real-life meetings and engaging in projects.
▶ Organizational structure:
▶ Loose network of OpenGLAM related projects and task forces
Swiss OpenGLAM Working Group

27. ▶ Active Task Forces
▶ Outreach to smaller institutions
▶ Open Cultural Data Hackathon
▶ Planned Project(s) (funding applications in preparation)
▶ Open Cultural Data Masterclasses
▶ Comparative case studies and evaluation of GLAM-Wiki cooperations
and open data projects in the heritage sector
▶ Outreach to all Swiss heritage institutions to ask them to contribute
content to Wikipedia /Wikimedia Commons
▶ Related Projects
▶ GLAM-Wiki cooperations
▶ Open Data projects in the heritage sector
▶ OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey
OpenGLAM CH Task Forces / Projects

28. ▶ Online survey conducted among heritage institutions throughout the
world in the second half of 2014.
▶ Focusing on questions related to
digitization, exchange of metadata,
open data/open content, semantic web,
social media, crowdsourcing
▶ Inspired by an earlier pilot survey,
carried out in Switzerland in 2012
▶ Organized in a federative manner, which
means that the organization depends on
volunteers and partners in each country
What is the OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey about?

29. ▶ Measure the state of advancement of OpenGLAM in the participating
countries
▶ Inform the GLAM community about the latest developments in the area of
OpenGLAM
▶ Identify potential partners for open data and/or crowdsourcing projects
▶ Use the study report as a communication instrument to promote
OpenGLAM
▶ Use the study report as an instrument for lobbying activities in favour of
OpenGLAM and the advancement of free knowledge
▶ Provide international comparisons:
• Allowing each country to see where it stands compared to other countries.
• Provide the international OpenGLAM community with a tool that helps it better
understand the particularities of each country
What do we want to achieve?

30. Overview of participating countries
Further countries are welcome to join!
Overview: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/OpenGLAM_Benchmark_Survey/Participating_countries
Participation status (as of 31 July 2014)
Bright Green: initial commitment
Yellow: awaiting confirmation
Underlying graphic file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BlankMap-World-v2.png Roke et al. (CC-by-sa)

31. ▶ Join one of the national teams or set-up your own!
▶ Main tasks at the national level:
• Ensure the translation of the questionnaire into your national
language(s)
• Gather e-mail contacts of the heritage institutions in your country
• Answer questions during the adminstration of the questionnaire
▶ Optional:
• Promote the survey results in your country
• Carry out country-specific analyses of the survey data
• Promote OpenGLAM in your country
How can you contribute?

32. Project «Swiss Heritage Institutions on Wikipedia»
List of
Institutions
(Progress
Tracking)
Step-by-step
Instructions
Pilot study: Swiss Heritage Institutions in
the Internet Era:
• Door opener: umbrella organizations
• List of heritage institutions

33. ▶ OpenGLAM Working Group:
• http://openglam.org
• Contact: lieke.ploeger@okfn.org (Lieke Ploeger)
jpekel@gmail.com (Joris Pekel)
▶ OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey:
• http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/OpenGLAM_Benchmark_Survey
• Contact: beat.estermann@bfh.ch (Beat Estermann)
Thank you for your attention!