6. =
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Digital content or data that is free to use, re-use and re-distribute
without technical or legal restriction
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7. Galleries Libraries, Archives and Museums
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Digital content or data that is free to use, re-use and re-distribute
without technical or legal restriction
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8. Galleries Libraries, Archives and Museums
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Digital content or data that is free to use, re-use and re-distribute
without technical or legal restriction
http://opendefinition.org
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16. What is the Digital Commons?
"An information and knowledge resources that are collectively created and
owned or shared between or among a community and that is, be (generally
freely) available to third parties. Thus, they are oriented to favor use and reuse,
rather than to exchange as a commodity.”
- Mayo Fuster Morell - OKFN
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18. The promise of the Digital
Commons
Non Excludable
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19. The promise of the Digital
Commons
Non Excludable Non Rivalrous
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20. The promise of the Digital
Commons
Non Excludable Non Rivalrous
Re-Usable
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21. The promise of the Digital
Commons
Non Excludable Non Rivalrous
Re-Usable
Digital artifacts can be curated,
remixed, annotated by anyone
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22. Types of Data
• Content data
• Metadata
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27. Metadata
• Name of Author
• Title
• Date of Creation
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28. Metadata
• Name of Author
• Title
• Date of Creation
• Size of Painting
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29. Metadata
• Name of Author
• Title
• Date of Creation
• Size of Painting
• Transcription
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30. Metadata
• Name of Author
• Title
• Date of Creation
• Size of Painting
• Transcription
• Translation
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31. Metadata
• Name of Author
• Title
• Date of Creation
• Size of Painting
• Transcription
• Translation
• Analysis of content
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32. Metadata
• Name of Author
• Title
• Date of Creation
• Size of Painting
• Transcription
• Translation
• Analysis of content
• Further Reading
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35. Why Open?
• Helping GLAMs fulfill their public mission
• Larger audience
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36. Why Open?
• Helping GLAMs fulfill their public mission
• Larger audience
• Allow your audiences to participate
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37. Why Open?
• Helping GLAMs fulfill their public mission
• Larger audience
• Allow your audiences to participate
• Connect and contextualise collections
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38. Why Open?
• Helping GLAMs fulfill their public mission
• Larger audience
• Allow your audiences to participate
• Connect and contextualise collections
• Keep memory institutions relevant in a Digital Age
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39. Public Mission
"Enable access to everyone who wants to do research"
- British Library, Our Mission and 2020 Vision
"Our core values are: accessibility, sustainability, innovation and cooperation."
-National Library of the Netherlands, Our Mission and Vision
"To provide diverse audiences with the best quality experience and optimum access
to our collections, physically and digitally."
- the Victoria & Albert Museum, Mission and Objectives
"The Federal Archives have the legal responsibility of permanently preserving the
federal archival documents and making them available for use."
- German Federal Archives - Responsibilities
The National Gallery of Denmark is Denmark’s premier museum of art. Through
Accessibility, education, and exhibition
- Danish National Gallery - Mission
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40. Global Audience
Open Images project in the Netherlands
• 1500 items on Wikimedia commons about
Dutch history.
• Being used in 500 articles in the
Netherlands
• More than 700 times in 63 different
languages
• Average article views per month: more than
2,5 million
http://www.openimages.eu/blog/2013/02/20/impact-metrics-increase-in-reach-and-reuse-of-open-images/
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41. Global Audience
Open Images project in the Netherlands
• 1500 items on Wikimedia commons about
Dutch history.
• Being used in 500 articles in the
Netherlands
• More than 700 times in 63 different
languages
• Average article views per month: more than
2,5 million
http://www.openimages.eu/blog/2013/02/20/impact-metrics-increase-in-reach-and-reuse-of-open-images/
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42. Global Audience
Open Images project in the Netherlands
• 1500 items on Wikimedia commons about
Dutch history.
• Being used in 500 articles in the
Netherlands
• More than 700 times in 63 different
languages
• Average article views per month: more than
2,5 million
0.015% of their Collection
http://www.openimages.eu/blog/2013/02/20/impact-metrics-increase-in-reach-and-reuse-of-open-images/
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43. Participation
• Visitors and users can actively contribute to aspects of your
collections:
o Curation
o Enrichment and improvement
o Provide content for new collections
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44. Connect and
Contextualise
The Neue Pinakothek, München
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_128.jpg
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vincent_Van_Gogh_0010.jpg
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47. Issues
• Concerns over lost revenue streams
• Attraction of private schemes that lockdown heritage
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48. Issues
• Concerns over lost revenue streams
• Attraction of private schemes that lockdown heritage
• Worries about the misuse of data and content
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49. Issues
• Concerns over lost revenue streams
• Attraction of private schemes that lockdown heritage
• Worries about the misuse of data and content
• Legal uncertainties: licensing, orphan works
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50. Issues
• Concerns over lost revenue streams
• Attraction of private schemes that lockdown heritage
• Worries about the misuse of data and content
• Legal uncertainties: licensing, orphan works
• Technical challenges: standards, tools
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85. Summary...
• 30.000.000 metadata records
• 25.000.000 open media files
• More is coming! Less than 10% digitised at the
moment
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86. Summary...
• 30.000.000 metadata records
• 25.000.000 open media files
• More is coming! Less than 10% digitised at the
moment
?
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107. The 21st Century GLAM
• It remains:
• The key preserver of our shared cultural heritage
• An authoritative source of information and expertise about
your collections
• You curate, contextualise and tells stories about your collections
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108. The 21st Century GLAM
• It stands to gain:
• An audience far beyond the wildest dreams of its first founders
• Connections to other collections that contextualise stories about
its objects
• A closer connection to its audience (and the improvements to its
digital collections that come with that)
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