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Open Culture Data:Opening GLAM Data Bottom-Up
Johan Oomen | Manager R&D |
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
t: @johanoomen
MW2013 | Portland OR, 20 April 2013
t: @OpenCultuurData | #opencultuurdata
Lotte Belice Baltussen Maarten Zijnstra
Nikki Timmermans
Co-authors
Maarten Brinkerink
http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/open-culture-data-opening-glam-data-bottom-up/
link to the paper!
1. Open Culture Data NL
2. Lessons learned
3. Stuff you can do today!
source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/8477565056/
Outline
STIMULATING COLLABORATION AND CREATIVITY“No matter who you are,
most of the smartest people work for someone else.” Joy’s Law
The “WHY” of open data in GLAMS
PUBLIC MISSION“For [GLAM] content to be truly accessible, it needs to be where the users
are, embedded in their daily networked lives.” Waibel and Erway, 2009
Neelie Kroes - Vice President for the Digital Agenda of the European Commission
“I urge cultural institutions to open up control of their data…there is a wonderful opportunity to show how cultural material can contribute to
innovation, how it can become a driver of new developments. Museums, archives and libraries should not miss it.”
The “WHY” of open data
http://www.digibis.com/dpla-europeana/
http://bit.ly/14AmIkolong list with 70+ entries:
Verwayen, H., Arnoldus, M., & Kaufman, P. B. (2011). The Problem of the Yellow Milkmaid. A Business Model Perspective on Open Metadata.
JAM/Europeana. CC BY
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• September to December 2011• Guidelines• 8 datasets• 1 hackathon (as part of Apps4NL)
Phase 1 - setting up the network
Open Culture Data guidelines(apologies there’s so much text below)
1. Open Culture Data is (1) knowledge and information of GLAMS about their collections and/or (2) digitised objects from collections
2. Everyone can consult, use, spread, and reuse Open Culture Data (through an open license or by making material available in the public domain)
3. Open Culture Data is available in a digital (standard) format that makes reuse possible
4. The structure and possible applications of Open Culture Data are documented in a data blog
5. The provider of the Open Culture Data is prepared to answer questions about the data from interested parties and respects the efforts that the open data community invests in developing new applications
Related work here: http://openglam.org/principles/
http://www.flickr.com/people/cartercomics/
Watch online:http://www.amara.org/nl/videos/9TKW2zyxThkN/info/
video nugget
Apps4NL contest
Photos: Breyten Ernsting - CC BY
Hackahon - November 2011
• 13 ideas executed, 8 submitted (out of 46 total)• First prize for Vistory (based on Open Images)
Source: Glimworm IT
Apps4NL contest
Source: Collection Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Set of De Taal van de Machine (VPRO) d.d. 13 November 1958 - CC BY--SA
Phase 2. Community and competition
Built on some key notions:•Innovators pave the way•Create pratical examples•Multidisciplinarity is key
• April 2012: start masterclasses
• June 2012: start competition / hackathon 1
• October/November 2012: hackathon 2
• January 2013: awards ceremony
Activities in 2012
Masterclasses
17 GLAMs participated
Topics:#1: Introduction to copyright#2: Technology and en tools#3: Reuse and apps#4: Benefits and risks#5: Hackathon / evaluation
Defining the ‘app challenge’
…make an app:•that expands audience reach (online, offline, on site)•in which the audience is reached in novel ways•that utilises and connects different datasets
HackatonsJune, October and December 2012
HackersNL
Photo: Olaf Janssen. CC BY-SA
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27 Apps were submitted
(note: this is a huge number)
www.opencultuurdata.nl/apps-2012
TIJDBALK.NL ARJAN DEN BOER
National Archives prize
SIMMUSEUMHAY KRANENBronze prize
HISTAGRAMRICHARD JONG
Silver prize
MUSE APPJELLE EN FEMKE VAN DER STER, PETER HENKES
Gold prize
http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiousjohn/
Watch online:http://www.amara.org/nl/videos/CUJ2FtbtNHgZ/info/
video nugget
Some lessons learned
• Have access to expertise on the dimensions of collection
• Buy-in from the senior management is essential => focus on value add
• Necessity to invest in engagement with third parties• Face to face meetups are extremely valuable
(masterclasses f.i.)• Start with something sweet and small• On hackatons • It doesn’t just happen – lots and lots of effort
• Search for sustainability• Not all data is equally popular
Future Work
• GLAMetrics• Improve API search• Executive track• Focussed challenges (education etc.)
• OpenCultuurData.be
2. Create something amazing:http://datahub.io/group/open-glam
1. Join the conversation:http://openglam.org/
stuff you can do!
3. follow a course:https://p2pu.org/en/groups/open-glam/
stuff you can do!
4. Share data and share experiences => meetup!
“if it doesn’t spread, it’s dead”(Jenkins 2013)
www.opencultuurdata.nl/en
@opencultuurdata @johanoomen
L. B. Baltussen, M.Brinkerink, N.Timmermans, M. Zeinstra, J. Oomen.Open Culture Data: Opening GLAM Data Bottom-up. Museums and the Web 2013.http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/open-culture-data-opening-glam-data-bottom-up/