Open Cultuur Data is a Dutch network that aims to make cultural data from institutions openly available and accessible in order to create new cultural applications. The network includes cultural professionals, developers, and open data experts. It works to collect and publish open cultural datasets from organizations like museums and archives. It also organizes events like hackathons to encourage developers to build apps using this open cultural data. The goal is to make culture more accessible to the public in new ways through open data and new applications.

1. Open Cultuur Data
ePSI Trailblazers
Maarten Brinkerink
mbrinkerink@beeldengeluid.nl
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Innovators Netwerk Erfgoedsector

2. Why?
More and more cultural institutions make their
collections and information digitally
accessible. This creates many new
opportunities to use this information to
create new applications, allowing everybody
to participate in arts and culture in new ways.
However, this data is often very difficult to
access for others.

3. Who?
Open Cultuur Data (Open Cultural Data) is a
network of cultural professionals, developers,
designers, copyright specialists and open data
experts, that opens cultural data and
encourages the development of valuable
cultural applications. This makes culture
accessible in new ways to a broader public.

4. What?
Open Cultural Data is knowledge and
information from cultural institutions,
organisations or initiatives about their
collections and/or works that everyone can
consult, use, spread and re-use
- Openly licensed
- Digitally available and accessible
- Documented
- Institutional support

5. How? 2011
- Organized workshops to build the network
- Collected and contributed open cultural data
sources and helpt write data blogs
- 8 datasets in total, from organisations like
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Museum and the
National Archives
- Stimulated developers to use open cultural
data at a national hackathon/app contest
- 13 such apps were made, the winner – Vistory – of
the app contest was based on open cultural data

6. How? 2012
- Stimulate growth of the network
- Organize a Masterclass Open Data for cultural
professionals
- Promote open cultural data at and contribute
to two national hackathons
- Award prizes for the best ‘cultural’ apps
- Reach out to developer communities
- Produce guidelines and reports

7. The Next Level
What can the ePSI Network contribute?
-Exchange with similar initiatives on an
international level
-Disseminate innovative outcomes from our
network
-Connect us to creative industries and
businesses interested in reuse of open cultural
data
-Help with proposing a feasible inclusion of
open cultural data within the PSI directive

8. http://www.opencultuurdata.nl
Twitter: @opencultuurdata
http://groups.google.com/group/opencultuurdata