openglam minerva 15/11/2012

Joris Pekel 14/11/2012

Minerva Conference@jpekel

1Sunday 18 November 2012(w)

What does Open mean?

Digital content or data is open that is free to use, re-‐use and re-‐distribute without technical or legal restric8on (see h2p://opendefini7on.org)

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http://opendefinition.org

http://opendefinition.org

Open Licenses

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5 Stars of Open Data

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What is GLAM?

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What is GLAM?

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Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums ✔


What we do• We are an ini7a7ve of the Open

Knowledge Founda7on• Supported by a network of

organisa7ons working to open up content and data held by GLAMs which includes the likes of Europeana, the Digital Public Library of America, Crea7ve Commons and Wikimedia

• A provider of exper7se to GLAMs on open issues

• A provider of open source tools for working with the cultural heritage content and data

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Explore out-of-copyright works from digital collections across the web through our online journal.Want an unusual collection from your institution to be featured? Get in touch!


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Different layers of data

• Metadata -‐ e.g. author, provenance, date• Digi7sed Objects -‐ e.g. book scans, digital photos

• User generated content


The Digital Dream

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The Digital Dream• A world in which our shared cultural heritage, the map of humanity, is open to all regardless of their background

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The Digital Dream• A world in which our shared cultural heritage, the map of humanity, is open to all regardless of their background• A world in which people are no longer passive consumers of cultural content created by an elite, but contribute, par8cipate, create and share

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Why Open?

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Why Open?1.Helping GLAMs fulfill their public mission

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Why Open?1.Helping GLAMs fulfill their public mission2.Larger audience

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Why Open?1.Helping GLAMs fulfill their public mission2.Larger audience3.Allow your audiences to par7cipate

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Why Open?1.Helping GLAMs fulfill their public mission2.Larger audience3.Allow your audiences to par7cipate4.Connect and contextualise collec7ons

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Why Open?1.Helping GLAMs fulfill their public mission2.Larger audience3.Allow your audiences to par7cipate4.Connect and contextualise collec7ons5.Keep memory ins7tu7ons relevant in a Digital Age

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Public Mission"Enable access to everyone who wants to do research"

-‐ Bri$sh Library, Our Mission and 2020 Vision

"Our core values are: accessibility, sustainability, innova7on and coopera7on."

-‐Na$onal Library of the Netherlands, Our Mission and Vision

"To provide diverse audiences with the best quality experience and op7mum access to our collec7ons, physically and digitally."

-‐ the Victoria & Albert Museum, Mission and Objec$ves

"The Federal Archives have the legal responsibility of permanently preserving the federal archival documents and making them available for use."

-‐ German Federal Archives -‐ Responsibili7es

The Na7onal Gallery of Denmark is Denmark’s premier museum of art. Through Accessibility, educa7on, and exhibi7on

-‐ Danish Na$onal Gallery -‐ Mission

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http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/2020vision/themes/index.html

http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/2020vision/themes/index.html

http://www.kb.nl/en/organization-and-policy/our-mission-and-vision

http://www.kb.nl/en/organization-and-policy/our-mission-and-vision

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/v/v-and-a-mission-and-objectives/

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/v/v-and-a-mission-and-objectives/

http://www.bundesarchiv.de/bundesarchiv/aufgaben/index.html.en

http://www.bundesarchiv.de/bundesarchiv/aufgaben/index.html.en

http://www.smk.dk/en/about-smk/organization/

http://www.smk.dk/en/about-smk/organization/

Public Mission

The Na7onal Library of Israel was established by law to "collect, preserve, cul7vate and endow the treasures of knowledge, heritage and culture in general, with an emphasis on the Land of Israel, the State of Israel and the Jewish people in par7cular."

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“We are delighted by the growing number of friends of the Israel Museum who have become 'virtual' visitors to our website. However, when our 'virtual' friends become real visitors to us in Jerusalem, we know that our website has served its true purpose.”


Global Audience

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• Le Louvre about 8.8 million visits a year1

• The poten7al audience when your collec7ons are on the web:o 2.27 billion -‐ 34.3% of the world's popula7on

• Growing body of evidence that the more open your collec7ons are the more hits they a2ract• Find audience for unusual collec7ons

1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/8993072/The-Louvre-attracts-record-visitor-numbers.html2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM#Quantitative


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/8993072/The-Louvre-attracts-record-visitor-numbers.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/8993072/The-Louvre-attracts-record-visitor-numbers.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM%23Quantitative

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM%23Quantitative

The Open Images Project

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Study by the Open Images projects in the Netherlands -‐ 2.5 million views a month1

1. http://www.slideshare.net/DM2E/open-cultuur-data-14469640.

1500 items on Wikimedia commons about Dutch history. Being used in 500 articles in the NetherlandsMore than 700 times in 63 different languagesAverage article views per month: more than 2,5 million


Wikimedia Commons

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• A database of 14,810,554 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.

• Images being reused on Wikipedia• Wikipedia is the 6th largest website in the world1 with the English Wikipedia receiving 551 million views a day 2

1. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page#2. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm


http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Welcome

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Welcome

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page%23

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page%23

Wikimedia Commons

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• A database of 14,810,554 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.

• Images being reused on Wikipedia• Wikipedia is the 6th largest website in the world1 with the English Wikipedia receiving 551 million views a day 2

1. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page#2. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm

The Israel Museum has joined the Google Art project and they are ‘happy’ that users can not download the images from there. Not realising, that many of these images can already be found on Wikimedia Commons, in full resolution.


Connect and contextualise

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Connect and contextualise• Connect collec7on with a vast and expanding network of cultural collec7ons

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http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/visualizations/europeana-jewish-images-per-countr





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Par8cipa8on• Visitors and users can ac7vely contribute to aspects of your collec7ons:

o Cura7ono Enrichment and improvemento Provide content for new collec7ons

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HistoryPin• Allows users to submit their photographs, videos and audio clips that can be placed on a map and 7meline

• Collabora7ng with over 200 cultural ins7tu7ons worldwide

• Let's communi7es tell their stories about their history

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Danish Mobile PlaKorm

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Merete Sanderhoff at the OKFestival in Helsinki 2012Merete Sanderhoff at the OKFestival 2012 in Helsinki


The 21st Century GLAM

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The 21st Century GLAMIt remains:

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• The key preserver of our shared cultural heritage

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• The key preserver of our shared cultural heritage• An authorita7ve source of informa7on and exper7se about your collec7ons

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• The key preserver of our shared cultural heritage• An authorita7ve source of informa7on and exper7se about your collec7ons

• You curate, contextualise and tells stories about your collec7ons

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The 21st Century GLAM

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The 21st Century GLAMIt stands to gain:

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• An audience far beyond the wildest dreams of its first founders

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• Connec7ons to other collec7ons that contextualise stories about its objects

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• Connec7ons to other collec7ons that contextualise stories about its objects

• A closer to connec7on to its audience (and the improvements to its digital collec7ons that come with that)

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Challenges

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Challenges• Concerns over lost revenue streams

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Challenges• Concerns over lost revenue streams• A2rac7on of private schemes that lockdown heritage

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Challenges• Concerns over lost revenue streams• A2rac7on of private schemes that lockdown heritage• Worries about the misuse of data and content

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Challenges• Concerns over lost revenue streams• A2rac7on of private schemes that lockdown heritage• Worries about the misuse of data and content• Legal uncertain7es: licensing, orphan works

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Challenges• Concerns over lost revenue streams• A2rac7on of private schemes that lockdown heritage• Worries about the misuse of data and content• Legal uncertain7es: licensing, orphan works• Technical challenges: standards, tools

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