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open GLAM - building the digital commons
The document discusses the importance and benefits of open cultural data, emphasizing the role of organizations like the Open Knowledge Foundation in promoting openness and accessibility in knowledge sharing. It elaborates on various projects and tools aimed at making government and cultural institution data available for public use, facilitating transparency and community engagement. Challenges related to data misuse, legal uncertainties, and technical issues are acknowledged, with recommendations for cultural institutions to enhance data availability and usability.
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- 1. Building the DigitalCommons - an introduction Open Cultural Data
- 3. About the OKFN ! A not-for-profitorganisation, promoting openness in all its forms. ! "From sonnets to statistics, genes to geo-data” ! We build tools and communities to create, use and share open knowledge, content and data that everyone can use, share and build on.
- 4. Working Groups -‐ join today!
- 5. CKAN is anopen source data portal software that makes it easy to publish, share and find data. ! CKAN features dozens of governments' data portals including United Kingdom, Brazil, USA, Finland, Germany and ... www.ckan.org We build tools to share data
- 6. www.openspending.org ! ! ! Open Spending isan open source software to visualise and help citizens better understand how their tax-money is being spend. ! ! Open Spending features the budget and spending data from dozens of Governments from around the world to become more transparent. ! We build tools to work with data
- 7. We set the standards to open
- 8. census.okfn.org We help to open up data
- 9. We promote open data
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- 12. Open Knowledge Festival OkenKnowledge Conference Open Data Camp Open Data Day ... www.okfn.org/events/ We run events
- 13. 20k in prizesfor apps, ideas, data 430 entries from 24 EU Member States ! + 400 participants from + 40 countries + 6 Tracks + 40 sessions ! www.ogdcamp.org We run hackdays and compeAAons www.opendatachallenge.org
- 14. We build a global Network Chapters: UK, Germany,Austria, Belgium, Greece and Switzerland ! Local groups: Finland, Brazil, Spain, Czech Republic, Italy,Australia, Netherlands, India, South Africa, Bosnia and ... www.okfn.org/local/
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- 22. Too many silos ...butwhy is this?
- 23. Artificial scarcity While informationis becoming abundant, access remains limited.
- 24. Apple ≠ Knowledge ! IfI share an apple with you, both of us will have half an apple. If I share knowledge with you we will both have the same knowledge.
- 25. What are theCommons? “Resources accessible to all members of a society” - Wikipedia
- 26. Environmental Examples AirFishForrest Non Excludable NonExcludable Non Excludable Non Rivalrous
- 27. What is theDigital Commons? "An information and knowledge resources that are collectively created and owned or shared between or among a community and that is, be (generally freely) available to third parties.Thus, they are oriented to favor use and reuse, rather than to exchange as a commodity.”- Mayo Fuster Morell on Wikipedia
- 28. The premises ofthe Digital Commons Non Excludable Non Rivalrous Re-Usable Digital artifacts can be curated, remixed, annotated by anyone
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- 30. Open Data Open Datais a concept of openness (similar to open source, open content, open access, etc) applied to data. ! “A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.” ! - www. opendefinition.org
- 31. Open Government Data OpenGovernment Data has become a major trend in public administration. It’s a precondition for Open Government principles, such as: transparency, participation and collaboration.
- 32. Open Cultural Data Culturalinstitutions making digitized artifacts and metadata available on the internet, for everybody to reuse and build on it.
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- 34. Public Mission "Enable accessto everyone who wants to do research" - British Library, Our Mission and 2020Vision ! "Our core values are: accessibility, sustainability, innovation and cooperation." -National Library of the Netherlands, Our Mission andVision ! "To provide diverse audiences with the best quality experience and optimum access to our collections, physically and digitally." - theVictoria & Albert Museum, Mission and Objectives ! "The Federal Archives have the legal responsibility of permanently preserving the federal archival documents and making them available for use." - German Federal Archives - Responsibilities ! The National Gallery of Denmark is Denmark’s premier museum of art.Through Accessibility, education, and exhibition - Danish National Gallery - Mission
- 35. Why openness matters toCultural Institutions • Helping GLAMs fulfill their public mission • Larger audience • Allow the audiences to participate • Connect and contextualize collections • Keep memory institutions relevant in a Digital Age
- 36. Great! Let’s look asome examples...
- 37. Internet Archive • 2001 •Volunteers & Institutions • 9.000.000 media files • Content • Various Licenses
- 38. Wikimedia Commons • Volunteerdriven • Collaboration with GLAMs • 17.000.000 media files • Content • Clear licensing
- 39. Europeana • 2008 • ‘EuropeanIdentity’ • 28.000.000 records • 2600 Institutions • Metadata • Link to Institution
- 40. Digital Public Library ofAmerica • 2013 • 2.500.000 records • 200 Institutions • Metadata • Link to Institution
- 41. Summary... • 30.000.000 metadatarecords • 25.000.000 open media files • More is coming! Less than 10% digitized at the moment
- 42. Issues ! • Worries aboutthe misuse of data and content • Legal uncertainties: licensing, orphan works • Technical challenges: standards, tools • Concerns over lost revenue streams • Attraction of private schemes that lockdown heritage
- 43. Galleries, Libraries, Archivesand Museums = = Digital content or data that is free to use, re- use and re-distribute without technical or legal restriction
- 44. • A globalnetwork of organizations, institutions and people who work to get content and data from cultural heritage institutions openly available for anybody to access, re-use and enjoy
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- 48. Vistory - anexample
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- 50. What data arewe talking about? ! Digitized content and Metadata
- 51. Content! • Digitized artifacts •Scanned images • Imagery & Photography • Maps • Transcriptions • Annotations • Descriptions • OCR
- 52. ! • Name ofAuthor • Title • Date of Creation • Size of Painting • Transcription • Translation • Analysis of content • Further Reading Metadata
- 53. Step by step ! Howcan GLAM institutions make content available on the internet so it can be accessed and re-used?
- 54. 1. Digitalization ! Costs, technicalchallenges & longtime preservation
- 55. 2. Clear IPrights ! Clear intellectual property rights & apply an open license
- 56. 3. Make itaccessible ! Publish content on the internet
- 57. 4. Make itdiscoverable ! Enhance your content so it can be easily discovered: open standards, metadata, improved search, search engine optimization, specialized data catalog software, RDF standards, publish as Linked Open Data.
- 58. Oh no, it’scomplicated!
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- 60. What needs tobe done And who can do it.
- 61. Policy ! Top-down approaches toset rules and regulations.
- 62. Demand ! Citizens, civil societyorganizations, science and private sector can make a case by creating innovations build on freely available open cultural data.
- 63. Supply ! Pioneering GLAM institutionscan engage and demonstrate the benefits of opening up content to others through successful initiatives and best practice.
- 64. Collaboration ! Visitors and userscan actively contribute to aspects of GLAM collections: Curation, enrichment and improvement, or provide content for new collections.
- 65. Curating the Commons ! Usersand Experts work hand-in-hand to create & curate the Digital Commons.
- 66. 21st Century GLAM •It remains: • The key preserver of our shared cultural heritage • An authoritative source of information and expertise about their collections • Curate, contextualize and tell stories about their collections
- 67. 21st Century GLAM •It stands to gain: • An audience far beyond the wildest dreams of its first founders • Connections to other collections that contextualize stories about its objects • A closer connection to its audience (and the improvements to its digital collections that come with that)
- 68. Thanks! Open Knowledge Foundation,www.okfn.org Daniel Dietrich, daniel.dietrich@okfn.org @ddie open Glam, www.openglam.org, @OpenGLAM
- 69. Reading Topic Report: OpenData in Cultural Heritage Institutions http://epsiplatform.eu/content/topic-report-open-data-cultural- heritage-institutions