Presentation at the National Digital Forum, New Zealand, 18 November 2019, delivered on my behalf by Sarah Powell. This presentation aims to give you a zoomed out look at how GLAMs around the world are adopting Open GLAM practices and touches on where New Zealand fits within this today. It is based on a global survey of open access in the cultural heritage sector undertaken by Dr. Andrea Wallace and myself over the past 18 months. This body of work informs where we are at with adopting Open GLAM practices on a global scale. Sarah and I met in Hamburg at ShareCareX - a conference dedicated to all things Open GLAM. For those that may not know, Open GLAM was created by the Open Knowledge Foundation in response to the need for clearer rights statements and licences for cultural heritage material found within galleries, libraries, archives and museum collections.

1. Insight from a global survey
of Open GLAM
Presentation by Victoria Leachman
on behalf of Douglas McCarthy
NDF 2019
19 November 2019
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2. Our session agenda
● Explore the global picture of
open access in cultural heritage
through the Open GLAM survey
● Inspire greater open access
policy and practice

3. The Open GLAM survey
‘Survey of GLAM open
access policy and
practice’ (2018-)
by Douglas McCarthy &
Dr. Andrea Wallace
bit.ly/OpenGLAMsurvey

4. Why did Douglas & Andrea start the survey?
● To address an information gap
○ Lack of comprehensive, up-to-date information
○ No ‘shared place’ to see/add relevant data
○ Perceived Anglophone/Western bias in Open GLAM
Motivation to discover & share the global picture
● To develop a resource for
○ GLAM people exploring open access policy & practice
○ People wanting to find & use open content or data

5. Let’s define open
‘Open means anyone can freely access, use, modify, and
share for any purpose.’ (The Open Definition)

6. Conformant licences & rights statements
● Public Domain Mark 1.0
● CC0 1.0 Universal
● Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
● Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
● No Known Copyright
● Open Data Commons Open Database Licence (ODbL)
● Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL)
● Open Data Commons Attribution Licence (ODC-BY)

7. “What about NC (non-commercial) or
ND (no derivative) policies?”
Sorry, that is not open access.

8. Free access = I can see
it
is not
Open access = I can use

9. Open GLAM survey scope
● Data that GLAMs make available on their websites and/or
external platforms such as Github, Europeana, German
Digital Library or Wikimedia Commons
● Focus on digital surrogates of objects in the public domain,
where any term of copyright for the material object has
expired or never existed in the first place

11. ● Institution name (original language), country and type
● Institution Wikidata (Q item)
● Links to open data incl. Githubs, APIs and Wiki Commons
● Licences/rights statements for digital surrogates and
metadata
● Links to Terms of Use and copyright policies
● Admission fee *new*
● Open Access Scope: ‘some’ or ‘all’ eligible data...
Survey data points

12. Open Access Scope
The survey records instances of open access by GLAMs:
These instances may be small in scale and exceptions to a
GLAM’s overall policy and practice.
Survey inclusion does not mean that a GLAM has a blanket
open access policy.
‘Open Access Scope’ indicates whether a GLAM releases
some or all of its eligible data on open access terms.

13. Survey method
Agile, organic and crowdsourced
● Information is gathered via desk research and outreach to
global GLAM community
● Anyone can suggest survey additions/corrections by
commenting in the Google Sheet, by contacting Andrea or
Douglas on Twitter, or completing a Google Form.

14. Survey growth
Today
640+ GLAMs
March 2018
30 GLAMs

15. Open GLAM today

17. Open licences and statements in use

18. Alexander Turnbull Library
Archives New Zealand
Auckland Art Gallery
Auckland Libraries - Heritage Images
Auckland War Memorial Museum
Canterbury Museum
Dunedin City Council Archives
Hutt City Council
Lincoln University
MTG Hawke's Bay
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
National Library of New Zealand
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
Palmerston North City Library
Sarjeant Gallery
Wellington City Archives
Open GLAM in New Zealand

19. All Open GLAM
instances are equal,
but some are more
equal than others.

20. Open Access Scope

21. Open Access Scope: ‘All eligible data’

23. Open Access Scope: ‘Some eligible data’

25. Communicating Open GLAM
The survey’s ‘Online Policy’ field links to the most relevant
rights policy and terms of use information that GLAMs
provide on their websites (when available)
BUT
- these pages are often generic and lacking in detail
- GLAM policy statements are often conflicting,
subject to change, do not expressly disclaim copyright
and inconsistent across web platforms

27. Communicating Open GLAM

28. Open GLAM: exceptional, not normal

29. #NOpenGLAM
IS
REAL

30. #NOpenGLAM
A True Story
"Why on earth should we have
the cost of production and let
you enjoy the product (or
anything) for free?
Honestly, do we live in a
capitalist world or not?"
"This is our property
and these images
cost money.”
1-time lecture use?
That will cost €75
Hmm, €75.
Seems a
lot...

31. ‘Under the false pretext
of opening to all the
freedom of access to the
images, it is in fact an
organized plunder of the
images of our patrimony
for purely private and
commercial uses that
will be put in place.’

32. Understanding the
Open GLAM landscape

33. Let’s continue this
journey together
Thank you.

34. Questions or comments?
Chat with @CultureDoug
on Twitter today!
#ndfnz