Open Cultuur DataePSI Trailblazers

Maarten Brinkerinkmbrinkerink@beeldengeluid.nl

Netherlands Institute for Sound and VisionInnovators Netwerk Erfgoedsector

Why?

More and more cultural institutions make their collections and information digitally accessible. This creates many new opportunities to use this information to create new applications, allowing everybody to participate in arts and culture in new ways. However, this data is often very difficult to access for others.

Who?

Open Cultuur Data (Open Cultural Data) is a network of cultural professionals, developers, designers, copyright specialists and open data experts, that opens cultural data and encourages the development of valuable cultural applications. This makes culture accessible in new ways to a broader public.

What?

Open Cultural Data is knowledge and information from cultural institutions, organisations or initiatives about their collections and/or works that everyone can consult, use, spread and re-use

- Openly licensed- Digitally available and accessible- Documented- Institutional support

How? 2011

- Organized workshops to build the network- Collected and contributed open cultural data

sources and helpt write data blogs- 8 datasets in total, from organisations like

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Museum and the National Archives

- Stimulated developers to use open cultural data at a national hackathon/app contest- 13 such apps were made, the winner – Vistory – of the

app contest was based on open cultural data

How? 2012

- Stimulate growth of the network- Organize a Masterclass Open Data for cultural

professionals- Promote open cultural data at and contribute

to two national hackathons- Award prizes for the best ‘cultural’ apps- Reach out to developer communities- Produce guidelines and reports

The Next Level

What can the ePSI Network contribute?-Exchange with similar initiatives on an international level-Disseminate innovative outcomes from our network-Connect us to creative industries and businesses interested in reuse of open cultural data-Help with proposing a feasible inclusion of open cultural data within the PSI directive

http://www.opencultuurdata.nl

Twitter: @opencultuurdata

http://groups.google.com/group/opencultuurdata