Luxemburg April 10 2013: MSEG on Digitisation and Digital Preservation

The National Heritage Board

•Since 1630

•Agency – Ministry of Culture

•Heritage and historic environment issues (overall level and monitoring)

The Agency Online

• 800 000 monuments sites

• 80 000 protected buildings

• 100 000 images

SOCH(Swedish Open Cultural Heritage)

• +20 museums

• 4.4 mio objects

• SOCH API - 10 apps • Europeana aggregator – 2.2 mio

New best practices 

•Licensing & respect PD•Linked open data•Tools for crowdsourcing•Focus on infrastructure & distribution (API)•(Less on ”portals”)

What is ?• Cross search • Mashup • Platform for UGC

• Lab for LOD

WikimediaWikimedia

Wikipedia (UGC)Wikipedia (UGC)

Google mapsStreet viewPanoramio

Google mapsStreet viewPanoramio

Royal Armory Museum (SOCH)

Royal Armory Museum (SOCH)

Wikimedia (UGC)Wikimedia (UGC)

LOD via SOCHAgentsEvents

etc

LOD via SOCHAgentsEvents

etc

Query resultsQuery results

www.kringla.nu [Linneaus]

Make it easy for the users!

Why?

Institution comes second!

Information comes first!

"If your content is not interoperable, it's not findable. If it's not findable, who cares about it?"

From analog to digital“It’s a good thing that data is being used a lot” “We don’t need to be involved when data it is being used” “Paywalls and complicated terms of use are efficient obstacles” 

“Claiming © over stuff in PD does not promote use and reuse”

http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/kringla

slideshare.net/surikat

@arkland_swe

Photos: Lars Lundqvist CC-BY-NC-SA

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K-SAMSÖK WebService

XML

API

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Google

Tidsresan/Time Mash

UGC

AP

IFornfynd IOS

Wikipedia

Libris?