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

www.openimages.euopen video repository

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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35 datasets

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/