This document discusses the impact and benefits of open collections at cultural heritage institutions. It begins by quoting James Smithson about the importance of exchange and mutual assistance between naturalists to assemble collections. It then discusses how open access to scholarly articles on the internet has allowed unprecedented sharing of knowledge. Examples are given of how open collections at institutions like museums have led to increased use of collections, new funding opportunities, and greater engagement with the public. Challenges of openness like infrastructure demands and copyright issues are also addressed. The document advocates for making collections as openly accessible and useful as possible to support research, education, and creativity.
The many unexptected joys if being "out there": examples of user participatio...Johan Oomen
Contribution as part of the SXSW 2014 panel "100 Years of Oversharing: Tools for Time Travel" - http://schedule.sxsw.com/2014/events/event_IAP21645 @johanoomen
A typed journal from WWI passed on through generations fuels a young man's dreams of time travel and allows us to explore the power of personal stories and photos. Together with archival collections, these items take us through space and time, and the magical ability of cultural memory institutions to help individuals bring these incredibly compelling dreams to life. The World Wide Web provides the cultural, technological, and legal frameworks to open the doors to innovation and imagination, and also enables libraries, archives and museums the world over to play a critical role. We explore some of the diverse efforts to bring stories and memory to life in new ways, while also fostering open data and preservation, and the pros and cons at the intersection of public domain and private enterprise.
Preserving Interactive Media - SXSW 2017Johan Oomen
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2017/events/PP96792
Interactive documentaries are at the vanguard of current media technologies. Taking into account every framework imaginable, its makers challenge some of our assumptions about how these technologies can or cannot support bringing a non-fiction storyline to a audience. In over a decade of IDFA DocLab’s existence, web technologies have changed dramatically and many producers experience how complicated it can be to keep their creations accessible and ‘experienceable’.
In this panel, chair Johan Oomen from Sound and Vision, will outline the challenges to creating dynamic web archives. We will then take a deeper look at particular cases. NFB collaborated with Google on the re-making of Bear 71 - porting it from a Flash-based to a WebVR online experience. Megan Lindsay will present this collaboration on re-representing a modern classic. After the presentations, there will be room for questions.
Exploring Audiovisual Archives through Aligned Thesauri Victor de Boer
Slides for the presentation given at the MTSR 2016 conference in Gottingen, Germany for the paper "Exploring Audiovisual Archives through Aligned Thesauri" by Victor de Boer, Matthias Priem, Michiel Hildebrand, Nico Verplancke, Arjen de Vries, and Johan Oomen.
In this paper, we present a case study where partial
collections of two audiovisual archives (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and VIAA) are connected by aligning their thesauri. We report on the conversion of one of the thesauri to SKOS and on the subsequent application of an interactive alignment tool CultuurLINK. Finally, we introduce an cross-collection browser which uses the produced alignment to allow users to explore connections between the two collections.
Research and Development at Sound and Vision Victor de Boer
Slides for guest lecture about R&D at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision for the lecture series "Introduction to IMM" at VU Amsterdam.
With slides by Lotte Belice Baltussen, Maarten Brinkerink, Johan Oomen, Bouke Huurnink and Victor de Boer
The many unexptected joys if being "out there": examples of user participatio...Johan Oomen
Contribution as part of the SXSW 2014 panel "100 Years of Oversharing: Tools for Time Travel" - http://schedule.sxsw.com/2014/events/event_IAP21645 @johanoomen
A typed journal from WWI passed on through generations fuels a young man's dreams of time travel and allows us to explore the power of personal stories and photos. Together with archival collections, these items take us through space and time, and the magical ability of cultural memory institutions to help individuals bring these incredibly compelling dreams to life. The World Wide Web provides the cultural, technological, and legal frameworks to open the doors to innovation and imagination, and also enables libraries, archives and museums the world over to play a critical role. We explore some of the diverse efforts to bring stories and memory to life in new ways, while also fostering open data and preservation, and the pros and cons at the intersection of public domain and private enterprise.
Preserving Interactive Media - SXSW 2017Johan Oomen
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2017/events/PP96792
Interactive documentaries are at the vanguard of current media technologies. Taking into account every framework imaginable, its makers challenge some of our assumptions about how these technologies can or cannot support bringing a non-fiction storyline to a audience. In over a decade of IDFA DocLab’s existence, web technologies have changed dramatically and many producers experience how complicated it can be to keep their creations accessible and ‘experienceable’.
In this panel, chair Johan Oomen from Sound and Vision, will outline the challenges to creating dynamic web archives. We will then take a deeper look at particular cases. NFB collaborated with Google on the re-making of Bear 71 - porting it from a Flash-based to a WebVR online experience. Megan Lindsay will present this collaboration on re-representing a modern classic. After the presentations, there will be room for questions.
Exploring Audiovisual Archives through Aligned Thesauri Victor de Boer
Slides for the presentation given at the MTSR 2016 conference in Gottingen, Germany for the paper "Exploring Audiovisual Archives through Aligned Thesauri" by Victor de Boer, Matthias Priem, Michiel Hildebrand, Nico Verplancke, Arjen de Vries, and Johan Oomen.
In this paper, we present a case study where partial
collections of two audiovisual archives (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and VIAA) are connected by aligning their thesauri. We report on the conversion of one of the thesauri to SKOS and on the subsequent application of an interactive alignment tool CultuurLINK. Finally, we introduce an cross-collection browser which uses the produced alignment to allow users to explore connections between the two collections.
Research and Development at Sound and Vision Victor de Boer
Slides for guest lecture about R&D at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision for the lecture series "Introduction to IMM" at VU Amsterdam.
With slides by Lotte Belice Baltussen, Maarten Brinkerink, Johan Oomen, Bouke Huurnink and Victor de Boer
Sound Connections pilot @ Europeana Creative Culture Jam 2015, VIennaLizzy Komen
The Europeana Creative pilot 'Sound Connections', harnesses the Europeana API to integrate sound collections from Sound and Vision and the British Library and allow communities to engage with them. Presented at Europeana Creative Culture Jam 2015, Vienna
Presentation by Henk Vanstappen (PACKED) and Lotte Belice Baltussen (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision) about the Open Culture Data initiative. Given at the DISH 2013 conference in Rotterdam, 3 December 2013.
Joining forces with Wikipedia reasons, experiences and impact - Sharing is Ca...Olaf Janssen
In this talk Olaf Janssen explains how and why joining forces with Wikipedia fits in the bigger open data strategies of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Starting from a brief historic overview of its Wikipedian-in-Residence project in 2013-14, he not only explains how the KB has been collaborating with Wikipedia and its volunteer community over the last couple of years, but also which positive impacts it has had for the exposure, distribution and reuse of KB's collections.
Sharing is Caring – Brussels Extension: Opening up with Wikimedia took place on 20 June at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage in Brussels. This conference introduced the Belgian heritage sector to the possible applications of the various Wikimedia platforms for opening up digital collections. The conference showcased examples from museums, libraries and archives from Belgium and abroad. See
http://sharecare.nu/brussels-x-2017/
Sharing is Caring is a conference platform focused on collaboration and sharing in the cultural heritage sector, bringing together practitioners, researchers, and users of culture. See http://sharecare.nu/
This presentation is also available on Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joining_forces_with_Wikipedia_reasons,_experiences_and_impact_-_Sharing_is_Caring_BrusselX_-_20_June_2017.pdf
20170620 sam donvil_sharing_is_caring_bxl_masterSamuel Donvil
Introductory presentation for 'Sharing is Caring - Brussels Extension: Opening up with Wikimedia Belgium' conference organised by PACKED vzw and Wikimedia Belgium on 20/06/2017 at KIK IRPA. Additionnaly: slides panel conversation and conclusion of conference.
Features content from Merete Sanderhoff 2007 presentation: How starting small can change the world for Sharedcarex Hamburg conference.
Europeana & IIIF - what we have been doing with IIIF and whyDavid Haskiya
Slides supporting my presentation at the IIIF Outreach event at the Rijksmuseum, October 18 2016. The presentation covered why we at Europeana have chose to join the IIIF community and adopt the protocol in our own stack. It includes examples of what we have developed and also what we have in the development pipeline.
Europeana Publishing Framework (Concept) at Culture JamEuropeana
Presentation given by Paul Keller (kennisland) and Harry Verwayen (Europeana) at the culture jam conference, Vienna July 9 2015. It explains the concept of the new publishing framework that supports cultural institutions participating in Europeana to share their material more openly and in higher quality.
Fashion for the commons - Sandra Fauconnier (Wikimedia NL) & Dieter Suls (MoMu)PACKED vzw
Wikimedia NL and MoMu (fashion museum Antwerp) show how they have cooperated over the years to bring the fashion and Wikipedia communities together and open up fashion knowledge online.
At this online web conference, the Europeana Aggregators’ Forum will open their virtual doors to cultural heritage professionals and anyone with an interest in high quality, open cultural heritage content.
Through a new Audiovisual Think Tank, visionary experts in the AV cultural heritage sector are working together to map out our shared strategic priorities and put into place a research and action agenda to shape the coming decade. The AV Think Tank looks to represent major AV archives and digital cultural heritage professionals from across the globe and closely connects these key players to work collectively at the forefront of the sector in consultation with the wider community. Initiated and actively supported by Sound and Vision, the AV Think Tank aims to lay the groundwork for an AV archiving sector that enables more long-term use of, learning with, and education through AV materials.
Los alumnos de sexto grado “A” del Instituto Parroquial Monseñor Luis Kloster, realizaron una línea de tiempo de construcción colaborativa. Trabajaron sobre la plantilla entregada por la docente.
Autoevaluación.
Sound Connections pilot @ Europeana Creative Culture Jam 2015, VIennaLizzy Komen
The Europeana Creative pilot 'Sound Connections', harnesses the Europeana API to integrate sound collections from Sound and Vision and the British Library and allow communities to engage with them. Presented at Europeana Creative Culture Jam 2015, Vienna
Presentation by Henk Vanstappen (PACKED) and Lotte Belice Baltussen (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision) about the Open Culture Data initiative. Given at the DISH 2013 conference in Rotterdam, 3 December 2013.
Joining forces with Wikipedia reasons, experiences and impact - Sharing is Ca...Olaf Janssen
In this talk Olaf Janssen explains how and why joining forces with Wikipedia fits in the bigger open data strategies of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Starting from a brief historic overview of its Wikipedian-in-Residence project in 2013-14, he not only explains how the KB has been collaborating with Wikipedia and its volunteer community over the last couple of years, but also which positive impacts it has had for the exposure, distribution and reuse of KB's collections.
Sharing is Caring – Brussels Extension: Opening up with Wikimedia took place on 20 June at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage in Brussels. This conference introduced the Belgian heritage sector to the possible applications of the various Wikimedia platforms for opening up digital collections. The conference showcased examples from museums, libraries and archives from Belgium and abroad. See
http://sharecare.nu/brussels-x-2017/
Sharing is Caring is a conference platform focused on collaboration and sharing in the cultural heritage sector, bringing together practitioners, researchers, and users of culture. See http://sharecare.nu/
This presentation is also available on Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joining_forces_with_Wikipedia_reasons,_experiences_and_impact_-_Sharing_is_Caring_BrusselX_-_20_June_2017.pdf
20170620 sam donvil_sharing_is_caring_bxl_masterSamuel Donvil
Introductory presentation for 'Sharing is Caring - Brussels Extension: Opening up with Wikimedia Belgium' conference organised by PACKED vzw and Wikimedia Belgium on 20/06/2017 at KIK IRPA. Additionnaly: slides panel conversation and conclusion of conference.
Features content from Merete Sanderhoff 2007 presentation: How starting small can change the world for Sharedcarex Hamburg conference.
Europeana & IIIF - what we have been doing with IIIF and whyDavid Haskiya
Slides supporting my presentation at the IIIF Outreach event at the Rijksmuseum, October 18 2016. The presentation covered why we at Europeana have chose to join the IIIF community and adopt the protocol in our own stack. It includes examples of what we have developed and also what we have in the development pipeline.
Europeana Publishing Framework (Concept) at Culture JamEuropeana
Presentation given by Paul Keller (kennisland) and Harry Verwayen (Europeana) at the culture jam conference, Vienna July 9 2015. It explains the concept of the new publishing framework that supports cultural institutions participating in Europeana to share their material more openly and in higher quality.
Fashion for the commons - Sandra Fauconnier (Wikimedia NL) & Dieter Suls (MoMu)PACKED vzw
Wikimedia NL and MoMu (fashion museum Antwerp) show how they have cooperated over the years to bring the fashion and Wikipedia communities together and open up fashion knowledge online.
At this online web conference, the Europeana Aggregators’ Forum will open their virtual doors to cultural heritage professionals and anyone with an interest in high quality, open cultural heritage content.
Through a new Audiovisual Think Tank, visionary experts in the AV cultural heritage sector are working together to map out our shared strategic priorities and put into place a research and action agenda to shape the coming decade. The AV Think Tank looks to represent major AV archives and digital cultural heritage professionals from across the globe and closely connects these key players to work collectively at the forefront of the sector in consultation with the wider community. Initiated and actively supported by Sound and Vision, the AV Think Tank aims to lay the groundwork for an AV archiving sector that enables more long-term use of, learning with, and education through AV materials.
Los alumnos de sexto grado “A” del Instituto Parroquial Monseñor Luis Kloster, realizaron una línea de tiempo de construcción colaborativa. Trabajaron sobre la plantilla entregada por la docente.
Autoevaluación.
Keynote for #teema14
http://www.nba.fi/fi/museoalan_kehittaminen/teemapaivat/puheenvuorot
Museoalan Teemapäivät/Museum Theme Days 2014
11-12 September, Helsinki
Keynote for the Prague Platform on the Future of Cultural Heritage, convened by the European Commission, October 7-8, 2019. The Prague Platform talks about
“Enhanced digitally enabled cultural heritage participation for all citizens.”
But what do these words mean? And how might we approach them — as practitioners, communities, governments and institutions, and citizens?
Historically Speaking, Digital Humanities, EWallis July 2012Elycia Wallis
A presentation given at a Professional Historians Association, Historically Speaking session in Melbourne, Australia, July 2012.
The aim of this talk was to describe digital humanities to a group of professional historians who might have heard of the term, but not be active practitioners.
Super-Successful GLAMs (Text version with notes)Michael Edson
Opening remarks for The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums
Sponsored by the City University of New York Digital Humanities Initiative, November 28, 2012
Organized by Neal Stimler and Matt Gold, with Will Noel and Christina DePaolo.
http://cunydhi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/11/07/wednesday-november-28-the-commons-and-digital-humanities-in-museums/
Got Tech? How Small-town museums and historical sites can go digitalBluecadet
Community pillars and repositories of history and memory, many museums are struggling the face of an ever evolving technological landscape. Consultants for local museums have commented that small museums “lack all of the new technology platforms” and as a result these museums will “most likely fall further behind the industry and become less relevant to the intended audience.” By looking at recent digital initiatives from across the country, this panel will highlight ways in which museums can use this opportunity to not only jump on the digital bandwagon, but also reach a new and larger audience.
The Smithsonian Institution, the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities, and the Florida Humanities Council are a few of the national and statewide institutions that are partnering with small town museums and historic sites through new digital initiatives. We will discuss twenty-first century solutions for museums and historic sites by examining interactive experiences that explore how we can leverage current collections/resources and thus highlight the pivotal role these institutions can play within the larger community.
Museums without walls: Breaking across the borders of organizational structure and preparing the next generation of museum professionals in the digital age - Museums and the Web conference, 2017, Cleveland, Ohio - Presentation April 21, 2017
Boom: Openness and Sharing in the Cultural Heritage SectorMichael Edson
My essay for the book Sharing is Caring: Openness and sharing in the cultural sector, Merete Sanderhoff, editor, published by the National Gallery of Denmark, 2014.
Free download at http://sharingiscaring.smk.dk/en
"Michael opens this anthology by establishing why it is crucial for the cultural heritage sector to seize the opportunity offered by the Internet and digitization to reach global populations and make a difference in their lives. Through many years of pioneering efforts within the field of digital technologies, and generous sharing of expertise and advice, Michael has inspired institutions worldwide to dare working more openly and inclusively with the users’ knowledge and creativity."
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A Quick Guide to Gaming Teen Interest in HistoryEffie Kapsalis
A lightening talk presentation by Effie Kapsalis, Smithsonian Institution Archives, and Kellian Adams, Green Door Labs, on a live mystery game developed for the Smithsonian's Castle. Part scavenger hunt, part escape room, the Smithsonian worked with teens to co-design the game concept and storyline. The pilot game ran during Summer 2017 in Washington D.C. Here are some lessons learned.
In this session, we explored effective ways to create more inclusive dialog around American history regardless of whether or not an organization’s primary purpose is to capture the history of minority Americans. Speakers included Effie Kapsalis, Smithsonian Institution Archives, and Lanae Spruce, Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Metrics, Metrics, Everywhere: Choosing the Right Ones for Your Website and So...Effie Kapsalis
#MWXX Workshop
Brian Alpert, Smithsonian Institution, USA, Sarah Banks, Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, USA, Erin Marie Blasco, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, USA, Effie Kapsalis, Smithsonian Institution Archives, USA
From the web’s earliest days, digital professionals have been pressed to demonstrate that their online efforts were contributing to their organizations, whether by increased revenue, a more finely-honed brand identity, or the profound ability to enhance their mission via content delivery to anyone with a browser. Along comes social media, connecting millions in ways never before possible, disrupting the landscape and breathing new life into the questions: “Why is this important and how do we know it’s working?” Today’s landscape is a splintered collection of new channels, inscrutable metrics, and a dizzying array of tools offering a dizzying range of possibilities with which to answer the classic question, “What do I measure?” and its first cousin, “What does that have to do with our program?”
Join Smithsonian’s Brian Alpert, Sarah Banks, Erin Blasco and Effie Kapsalis as they work with participants to refine and articulate this conversation through a series of examples, case studies and recommendations. In addition to presenting a manageable, common sense approach to selecting metrics and extending the web analytics process to social media, examples will demonstrate how metrics served to support organizational goals and what tools proved most useful. Brian will present the process for measuring websites and social media in terms of your goals. He will also discuss the ongoing conversion to Google’s “Universal” code, the “User ID” feature, and discuss what changes are in store for ALL Google Analytics users. Effie and Erin will present case studies showing this process in action, illustrating how their approaches to social media, website and mobile measurement are mapped to specific goals. Erin will lead a group exercise that will bring participants closer to the actual process steps and definitions, and Sarah will talk about Google Analytics for mobile apps and show a framework she devised to help measure a museum’s impact through its social media outreach.
SXSW 2016 - Give It Away to Get Rich: Open Cultural HeritageEffie Kapsalis
A presentation by Effie Kapsalis, Shana Kimbal, & Shyam Oberoi at SXSW interactive. Open content, open access; what do these things mean? Over 50 galleries, libraries, archives, and museums have pursued open access with permissions to reuse over the last decade, to a varying degree, removing technical and copyright barriers to their public domain collections. With a decade of practice under the belts of these early adopters, we can better understand the impact of open initiatives on several fronts: Brand, Finances, Public engagement, Institutional Relevance, Mission, Organizational Culture, and Staffing.
Rethinking Evaluation Metrics in Light of Flickr Commons: The Smithsonian Ins...Effie Kapsalis
This presentation examined how several institutions on Flickr Commons – the Library of Congress, the Powerhouse Museum, the Smithsonian, New York Public Library, and Cornell University Library – are navigating the concept of evaluation in an emerging arena where compelling statistics are often qualitative, difficult to gather, and ever-changing. The joint presentation looked at how these different institutions managed metrics and evaluation in highly collaborative Web spaces.
Museum as Platform: Envisioning Visitors as Creators & ContributorsEffie Kapsalis
The session at the American Alliance of Museums in 2009 explored online museum projects that encourage visitors to be creators and contributors in the online museum exhibit. This presentation is about the Smithsonian Photography Initiative's project, click! photography changes everything (www.click.si.edu). Other presenters included:
Matthew Fisher, president Night Kitchen Interactive (www.whatscookin.com)
Danielle Rice, Executive Director, Delaware Art Museum, Art of Storytelling website (http://www.artofstorytelling.org/)
Bill Adair, Director of the Heritage Philadelphia Program for The Pew Charitable Trusts, Rosenbach Museum's 21st Century Abe project (www.21stcenturyabe.org/)
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Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
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This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
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Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
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What is the point of small housing associations.pptxPaul Smith
Given the small scale of housing associations and their relative high cost per home what is the point of them and how do we justify their continued existance
6. "IT IS ONLY BY EXCHANGE AND MUTUAL ASSISTANCE THAT
NATURALLISTS [SIC] CAN POSSIBLY EVER SUCCEED IN ASSEMBLING
TOGETHER A COLLECTION OF SUBJECTS OF THEIR STUDY, WHICH
NATURE HAS MADE SO NUMEROUS, AND DISSEMINATED IN SUCH
VARIOUS AND DISTANT PARTS OF THE WORLD,”
JAMES SMITHSON
@digitaleffie
10. 21ST CENTURY INCREASE
& DIFFUSION
@digitaleffie
“An old tradition and a new technology
have converged to make possible an
unprecedented public good. The old tradition
is the willingness of scientists and scholars to
publish the fruits of their research in scholarly
journals without payment, for the sake of
inquiry and knowledge. The new technology is
the internet.”
- Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2001
11. WE, THE WEB KIDS
1. We grew up with the Internet and on the Internet…
The ability to find information is to us something
as basic as the ability to find a railway station or a
post office in an unknown city is to you…
@digitaleffie
12. WE, THE WEB KIDS
2. People who will share their expertise with us not for
profit, but because of our shared belief that information
exists in motion, that it wants to be free, that we all
benefit from the exchange of information…
@digitaleffie
13. WE, THE WEB KIDS
3. What we value the most is freedom: freedom of
speech, freedom of access to information and to
culture. We feel that it is thanks to freedom that the
Web is what it is, and that it is our duty to protect
that freedom. We owe that to next generations, just as
much as we owe to protect the environment.
@digitaleffie
14. WE, THE WEB KIDS
One more thing: we do not want to pay
for our memories.
@digitaleffie
15. OPEN ACCESS
“…free availability on the public internet, permitting any
users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search,
or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for
indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them
for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or
technical barriers other than those inseparable from
gaining access to the internet itself.”
- Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2001
@digitaleffie
17. #OPENGLAM RESULTS
• New fundraising and brand licensing opportunities.
• More efficient image management and digitization processes.
• A realignment of staff with more mission-critical activities
• Furthering of research, educational and creative activities.
• Increases in use and awareness of an institution’s collections.
• Creation of a strengthened and more relevant brand.
• Increased goodwill leading to increased public engagement.
@digitaleffie
18. #OPENGLAM – MISSION
“Making the biodiversity heritage
literature online has accelerated the pace
of taxonomic science across the world.”
- Martin Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Libraries
@digitaleffie
19. #OPENGLAM – MISSION
“Open access increased the institution’s
appetite for risk-taking, and enabled
innovative research and experimentation
with the library’s collections.”
- Nora McGregor, British Libraries
@digitaleffie
20. #OPENGLAM – EMPLOYEE
SATISFACTION
Since releasing the museum’s collections
online without restrictions, staff members
have been spared from approving 14,000
image requests — and writing at least
28,000 emails.
- “Reusing Te Papa’s collections images, by the numbers,” Adrian Kingston, digital
collections analyst, Te Papa Museum of New Zealand
@digitaleffie
21. #OPENGLAM – INCREASED
FUNDING LANDSCAPE
“We lost all our income on direct sales of
images, but we gained a lot of new
friends, sponsors, and new funding
streams…more than we lost in revenue.”
- Lizzy Jongma, formerly Rijksmuseum, Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen
@digitaleffie
22. #OPENGLAM – IMPROVED BRAND
Six months after launch, NYPL had received over 100
press mentions and was approached by a major New
York retailer asking about brand licensing
opportunities.
@digitaleffie
23. RISKS TO OPEN
ACCESS
• Increased demand on technical infrastructure.
• Potential increase in staff workload if media delivery is not self-
service.
• Loss of rights and reproduction income….however doesn’t
actually cover costs of doing that business.
• Staff worries over loss of intellectual control and potential for
abuse of collections; however, studies show that nothing of
negative consequence results.
@digitaleffie
24. RISKS TO CLOSED
• Decreased funding opportunities as funders move to requiring
open access.
• Reduced opportunities for collaboration with other knowledge
organizations, open government initiatives, cultural heritage
aggregators, Wikipedia, and digital humanities projects.
• Reduced mission-impact.
• Reduced marketing opportunities/irrelevant brand.
• Potential reduction in activity from digital volunteers due to
perception that their work is not supporting an open effort.
• Large amounts of staff time spent on non-mission-critical tasks.
@digitaleffie
30. “…when you’re invisible people assume
you’ve done nothing.”
- Edith P. Mayo, Curator Emeritus, Smithsonian National Museum of American
History
@digitaleffie
32. @digitaleffie
Screenshot of African American Contributions to the Smithsonian: Challenges and Achievements
https://siarchives.si.edu/history/exhibits/african-americans
IS OUR HISTORY
INCLUSIVE?
35. OPENNESS + ACCESSIBILITY
“Accessibility is something that’s never
really done. It’s not like, ‘Oh, we checked
that box. We finished that work.’ It’s
really about an almost philosophical
approach and a practice of engagement,
and it’s something that we are continually
working to improve here.”
- Danielle Linzer, Warhol Museum's curator of education and interpretation
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Editor's Notes
Top of class in chemistry at University of Athens, no job opportunities, came to U.S. in 1962. Liquid Scintillation Spectrometer uses light emissions to determine elements in a compound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhX4EER5BBk
He married an American, had two children.
As he liked to call it, “the full catastrophe”
Love letter to archives. They systematically record the history of people, organizations, and countries. They may seem dry on the surface, however, when examined, they provide important clues about who we are today.
Speaking of another chemist who saw opportunity in far lands: James Smithson (born 1765, un-acknowledged son of the first Duke of Northumberland. He was a chemist when chemistry was a new science = the original Smithsonian Hipster. He believed that the pursuit of science and knowledge was the key to happiness and prosperity for all of society. He saw scientists as benefactors of all mankind, and thought that they should be considered “citizens of the world.” Smithson was interested in studying almost everything: the venom of snakes, the chemistry of volcanoes, the constituents of a lady’s tear, and even the fundamental nature of electricity. He published twenty-seven papers in his lifetime, ranging from an improved method of making coffee, to an analysis of the mineral calamine, critical in the manufacture of brass…)
His personal archives and collections were lost in a Castle fire that took place in 1865 in the dead of winter. “Historic re-enactment” of Castle Fire. What we do know was pieced together in archives across Europe.
Toward the end of his life in 1826, under a clause in his will, he left his fortune to the United States, a place he had never visited, to found in Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, “an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” Smithson died in Genoa, Italy, on June 27, 1829. Now, what would motivate someone who had never set foot in the United States to donate his entire fortune with such open terms? Smithson likely saw democratization of knowledge in the United States, something that was more restricted to a certain segment of society in Europe.
A free and open web is something that would be close to his heart, I'd guess. (Smithson = pro net neutrality!!). I asked Smithson’s biographer, Heather Ewing, what he would think of the open sharing and collections movements in the cultural heritage world. To support this hypothesis, she cited the example of Smithson tried to use instruments that were made with readily available and inexpensive materials (in stark contrast to the French), so that anybody could replicate his experiments, participate, challenge him, etc.
To support this hypothesis, she cited the example of Smithson tried to use instruments that were made with readily available and inexpensive materials (in stark contrast to the French), so that anybody could replicate his experiments, participate, challenge him, etc.
What is the 21st century version of the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men?
Definition of Budapest Open Access Initiative.
Includes technology
Piotr Czerski is a Polish writer and commentator, 2012
Piotr Czerski is a Polish writer and commentator, 2012, http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/we-the-web-kids/253382/
Piotr Czerski is a Polish writer and commentator, 2012
Over a dozen international GLAM institutions. MK&G Tanner, Simon, “Reproduction charging models & rights policy for digital images in American art museums.” An Andrew W. Mellon Foundation study. King’s Digital Consultancy Services, August 2004. http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/pubs/USMuseum_SimonTanner.pdf, accessed 7/8/2015.
Kelly, Kristin, “Images of Works of Art in Museum Collections: The Experience of Open Access, a Study of 11 Museums,” p. 24. Prepared for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Council on Library and Information Resources, June 2013. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub157/pub157.pdf, accessed 7/8/2015.
This hit home at my daughters school. Local African American residents were not getting to the Smithsonian, a large complex of FREE museums less than 3 miles from home. Part relevance, part resources.
This hit home at my daughters school. Local African American residents were not getting to the Smithsonian, a large complex of FREE museums less than 3 miles from home. Part relevance, part resources.
As a woman and 1st generation American on my father’s side, I barely see myself in the archives.
Pulling out little-documented women scientists. From campaign, to wikipedia edit-a-thons…
We need to document and create more diverse histories even if it’s not our main mission.
We need to involve more diverse producers of history. Though 28 percent of museum staffs are from underrepresented minorities, the great majority of these workers are concentrated in security, facilities, finance, and human resources jobs. Among museum curators, conservators, educators, and leaders, only four percent are African American and just three percent Hispanic.
- The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey, https://mellon.org/resources/news/articles/Diversity-American-Art-Museums/
“Two recent studies paint a stark picture of the lack of ethnic and racial diversity among top museum staff in the US. While people of colour represent 38% of the country’s population, they make up only 9% of museum boards and 16% of the administrators, curators, conservators and educators who make decisions about what is exhibited and preserved as culturally important.” the Art Newspaper We need to pay our interns. Low income young people can’t afford unpaid internships.