Presentation by Maarten Brinkerink of Sound and Vision Netherlands during the Open Belgium Conference 2015 in Namur.

1. OPEN CULTURE DATA:
Opening GLAM Data Bottum-Up
Open Belgium 2015
Maarten Brinkerink
Namur, February 23, 2015
t: @OpenCultuurData | #opencultuurdata

2. 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.
It aims to make culture accessible in new ways to
a broader public.

3. WHO
Open Cultuur Data is a joint
initiative of Kennisland, Open
State Foundation and the
Netherlands Institute for
Sound and Vision.

4. HOW
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

5. HOW
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

6. 1. Open Culture Data includes digital
representations of collection objects
and/or knowledge and information of
cultural institutions and initiatives
about their collections, activities and
organization
defining open culture data

7. 2. Everyone can consult, use, spread
and re-use Open Culture Data
(through an open license or by
making material available in the
Public Domain)
defining open culture data

8. 3. Open Culture Data is available in a
digital (standard) format that makes
re-use possible
defining open culture data

9. 4. The structure and possible
applications of Open Culture Data
are documented, for instance in a
data blog
defining open culture data

10. 5. The provider of the Open Culture
Data is prepared to answer
questions about the data from
interested parties and respects the
efforts that it costs that the open data
community invests in developing new
applications
defining open culture data

12. • 29 GLAMs (galleries, libraries,
archives and museums)
• 52 datasets
– 29,000,000 metadata records
– 1,300,000 media items
• 60 apps
• www.opencultuurdata.be
SOME RESULTS

13. • 17 participants in 2012, 20 in 2014
• Topics include IPR and open
licenses, Technology and Policy
• Reader (NL):
http://www.opencultuurdata.nl/wp-content/uploads/20
• Online course (EN):
https://p2pu.org/nl/groups/open-glam/
MASTERCLASS

14. CLASS of 2014 (CC-BY KENNISLAND)

15. • Central index for all NL open culture
datasets (proof-of-concept)
• Based on ElasticSearch open source
technology
• Front-end: search.opencultuurdata.nl
• Community project:
https://github.com/openstate/open-
cultuur-data
API

16. Culture Harvest (CC-BY-SA 4.0 Tom Kunzler)

17. • Not a competition, but an open call
• 19 submissions
• Jury with representatives from KLM,
Amsterdam Museum, Mobypicture
• 4 apps selected got funding and
coaching for further development and
investigating business opportunities
CHALLENGE

18. MUSEUM Detective (Wim de nood)

19. DE BLOZENDE ETS (SIETSE BROUWER)

20. VIRTUEEL MUSEUM (ERNST Dommershuijzen)

21. TAG ART (EUGENE TJOA & SIMON NOUWENS)

22. • Reporting on online activities is
becoming more important for GLAMs
• Current ‘evidence’ on the success of
GLAMs opening up still mostly
anecdotal
• But GLAMs are notoriously bad at
monitoring online and open
distribution is by definition dispersed
IMPACT ANALYSIS

23. • Institutional channels
• Wikimedia
• Open Cultuur Data API
• Flickr (The Commons)
• Europeana
• Apps
Selection of areas to (try and) measure

24. • 30 GLAMs responded to a broad survey,
14 reported being active on Wikimedia
• Currently tracking 20 NL GLAMs on
Wikimedia Commons
• 58,226,417 pageviews on Wikipedia
articles in December 2014
• 1,128,372,589 pageviews since they
have been tracked (between 2 and 54
FIRST RESULTS WIKIMEDIA (DEC 2014)

25. www.opencultuurdata.nl
search.opencultuurdata.nl
https://github.com/openstate/open-cultuur-data
mbrinkerink@beeldengeluid.nl
@mbrinkerink
@OpenCultuurData
#opencultuurdata
THANKS! QUESTIONS?