The DM2E project, co-funded by the European Union, aims to enhance open access to cultural heritage through events, documentation, and network building within the OpenGLAM community. Key activities include promoting best practices for open cultural data, community engagement, and hosting awards for innovative projects in the humanities. Moving forward, OpenGLAM aspires to maintain its impact as a volunteer-led initiative supporting global openness in digital cultural heritage.

1. co-funded by the European Union
DM2E Community building
Lieke Ploeger, Open Knowledge

2. DM2E - Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana
(Feb 2012 - Feb 2015)
www.dm2e.eu

3. Main activities of Open Knowledge (leading WP4)
➔ Build up and support the OpenGLAM network of open culture
advocates for raising awareness of legal and technical best
practises around open cultural data (www.openglam.org)
➔ Engage with developers, researchers and end users in the
humanities through a series of events and through running the
Open Humanities Awards
➔ Provide extensive and varied documentation on DM2E project
outputs (video, user manuals, website, wiki)
➔ Broad range of dissemination at high-level events and
conferences in the linked open data field, as well as online
(www.dm2e.eu / @dm2europeana / wiki.dm2e.eu)

4. OpenGLAM: What we do
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● Promote free and open access to
digital cultural heritage held by
Galleries, Libraries, Archives and
Museums (GLAMs)
● Build & support a community of
open culture evangelists
● Provide expertise to GLAMs on
open issues
● Provide information, resources and
tools for working with cultural
heritage content and data

5. OpenGLAM structure
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7. – Promote and facilitate the adoption of the OpenGLAM
principles in Switzerland
– Members include NGOs (Open Knowledge; Wikimedia; Creative
Commons), GLAMs, Research and educational institutions and
service providers
– Around 20-25 people actively participating in real-life
meetings and events
– Active task forces: Open Cultural Data Hackathon (Feb 2015),
Outreach to smaller institutions
OpenGLAM local group: Switzerland

8. • Finnish network of people working on opening up data and content
• Various events: seminars, workshops, meetups, hackathons
• Open Cultural Data Masterclass (spring 2014)
– Participants from different cultural and memory institutions
– Leading experts and practitioners as tutors
– 6 thematic one day sessions with various themes, e.g. copyrights, open
licenses, creative reuse and applications, demos and prototypes.
– Main objective: every organization would open up data and develop a small
demo or prototype using open cultural data.
OpenGLAM local group: Finland
DM2E Annual meeting, 12-13 June 2014, Bergen Norway

9. Continued growth
Metric 1st
Feb 2013 1st
Feb 2014 1st
Feb 2015
Twitter 906 2,106 3,354
Public mailing list 250 604 734
Unique site visitors 19,101 60,408 100,649

10. • Working Group going global: now 17 members, including New
Zealand, India and Brazil
• OpenGLAM local: 4 local groups running
Switzerland, Austria, Finland, Germany
• OpenGLAM benchmark survey
Measuring the state of advancement in open cultural data in
countries around the world (November 2014 - April 2015)
• New functionality and content for the Open Collections page
• Increased focus on case studies from different size institutions
OpenGLAM: the future
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11. DM2E documentation & promotion
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● Broad range of project dissemination through publications,
presentations and dedicated DM2E-events
● DM2E represented at high-level conferences and events in
the linked open data field (such as LODLAM summit)
● Novel type of events like Humanities Hack
● DM2E wiki page with useful information on topics related to
DM2E such as linked open data and open cultural data
● Extensive and varied documentation on project outputs
including videos, user manuals, website, wiki

12. Events
18 DM2E events in 3 years: 500+ participants, 9 countries
➔ Demonstration and training with tools
◆ Pundit workshops
◆ The Web as Literature conference
➔ Best practices in open cultural data
◆ Open Data in Cultural Heritage workshops
◆ OpenGLAM legal workshop
◆ Putting Linked Library Data to Work seminar
➔ Coding sprints and hackdays
◆ Open cultural hack
◆ Open Humanities hack
◆ Pundit hackday
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13. DM2E Contest Awards
Support innovative projects that use
open data, open content or open source
to further teaching or research
in the humanities

14. Open Humanities Awards
● Two competition rounds held
● 71 applications from over 40 different academic institutions
● Five projects awarded
● Winners blogged regularly on their results through the
DM2E blog, presented their results at conferences and
events in the field and published final reports
● http://openhumanitiesawards.org/
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15. Beyond DM2E...
OpenGLAM established as a sustainable, volunteer-led community
that will continue to push for openness in digital cultural heritage
➔ One of the most prominent Open Knowledge Working Groups
➔ Supported by a network of organisations working to open up cultural
content and data (including Europeana, the Digital Public Library of
America, Creative Commons and Wikimedia)
➔ Grew into a large, global, active volunteer-led community
DM2E documentation and guidance remain available on the wiki
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16. More information
● OpenGLAM: http://openglam.org/
● DM2E Outputs page (all publications, presentations,
deliverables, event reports):
http://dm2e.eu/outputs/
● Open Knowledge DM2E reports:
○ DM2E events
○ Open Humanities Awards
● DM2E wiki / Introduction to Open Cultural Data: http://wiki.
dm2e.eu/Main_Page
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