The document outlines the achievements and activities of the OpenGLAM initiative from July to December 2014, emphasizing the strengthening of networks around Europeana, increasing community engagement, and supporting open cultural data practices. It details events, workshops, and contests aimed at enhancing contributions to Europeana, along with metrics reflecting growth in community involvement. Additionally, it highlights the establishment of local Openglam groups and the start of a benchmark survey to assess the state of open cultural data worldwide.

1. co-funded by the European Union
Work Package 4
Results July-December 2014
12 December 2014
Lieke Ploeger, Open Knowledge

2. Objectives
• Catalyze active community around Europeana: strengthen
existing networks and engaging new stakeholders
• Support a network of open metadata evangelists (OpenGLAM)
for raising awareness of legal and technical best practises
around open cultural data
• Enable content holders to contribute new material to Europeana
(workshops, documentation)
• Facilitate collaboration between technologists in the Europeana
community and end users
(events, online activities, contest)
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3. Tasks & deliverables
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Deliverables Due
D4.2 Workshop Programme
D4.6 Contest Award Fund
M36
M36
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4. 15 July 2014: Starting the OpenGLAM local group for Germany
Open Data in Cultural Heritage Workshop: OpenGLAM in Germany
(Wikimedia, Berlin, Open Knowledge festival fringe event)

5. 18 September 2014: Pundit community session
DARIAH-EU VCC General meeting
(Rome, Italy)

6. 18 November 2014: DM2E showcase event at ONB
Putting Linked Library Data to Work: the DM2E Showcase
(Vienna, Austria)

7. Open Humanities Hack: 28 November 2014, London, UK
Jointly organised by

8. Workshop at SWIB 2014 conference, 1-3 December, Bonn

9. Promotes and furthers free and open access to digital cultural
heritage, by:
➔ Actively maintaining an overview of Open Collections
➔ Providing documentation on the process and benefits of
opening up cultural data
➔ Publishing regular news and blog items
➔ Facilitating the OpenGLAM Working Group and Advisory
Board
➔ Organising events
OpenGLAM community
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10. • Working Group going global: now 17 members, including New
Zealand, India and Brazil
• OpenGLAM local: 4 local groups running
Switzerland, Austria, Finland, Germany
• OpenGLAM benchmark survey started
Measuring the state of advancement in open cultural data in
countries around the world (November 2014 - April 2015)
• Working on new functionality and content for the Open
Collections page
• Increased focus on case studies from different size institutions
Main updates this period
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11. Continued growth
Metric 1st
Feb 2013 1st
Feb 2014 1st
Dec 2014
Twitter handle 906 2,106 3,240
Public mailing list 250 604 720
Unique visitors to
site
19,101 60,408 95,267
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12. Contest Awards – round 2
Second round: 2014
– Open track: SEA CHANGE,
Early Modern European Peace Treaties Online
– DM2E track: FinderApp WITTfind
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13. Contest Awards – round 2 blogging
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14. DM2E dissemination stats
*12/6/2014
Number of presentations given:
- in Year 2
- Year 3 – so far
19
17
Number of Slideshare presentations uploaded:
- in Year 2
- Year 3 – so far
20
29
Number of blogs posts (across whole web platform):
- in Year 2
- Year 3 – so far
95
96
Number of academic papers published:
- in Year 2
- Year 3 – so far
8
5
DM2E Twitter followers
- end of Year 2
- Year 3 – so far
400
631

15. Increased partner blogging
★ NTU Athens: ‘MINT - Metadata Interoperability
Platform’
★ Humboldt University: ‘Mapping the
Polytechnisches Journal to DM2E’
★ EAJC / University of Mannheim: ‘JudaicaLink’
★ Still planned: ...
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16. DM2E web statistics
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➔ on average between 1000-1200 sessions per
month (previously around 500-700)
➔ increased blogging, effect of awards & events

17. Presentations / publications
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18. Newsletters
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19. Final work
• Winners of Open Humanities Awards round 2 finish
their work and publish results
• Final updates to community documentation (wiki)
• Publications and presentations overview updated
• Blogging on final results
• Final newsletter
• Write-up of deliverables on events and awards
• Adding all deliverables to the website
… continuation of OpenGLAM
*12/12/2014