By invitation of the Center for Public Innovation in Bucharest, Romania, made possible by the Dutch embassy in Romania on the occasion of the Culture Hack program, a presentation to see what Romania and The Netherlands can collaborate upon in the context of European Digital Culture with a focus on open data.

1. Opening up digital cultural content.
Dutch approach.
Marco Streefkerk
DEN Foundation
Culture Hack
Bucharest, 3 March 2018

2. Agenda
1.Status of digitization in The Netherlands
2.Dutch approach
3.Open culture data
4.Examples
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3. 1. Status of digitisation

4. The Dutch Cultural Collection
Museum collection: ± 74 million objects
Archival collections: ± 845 km (= ± 6 billion pages)
Academic libraries: ± 9 million items
Audio visual collections: 1,500,000 hours
Building history: 75.000 buildings
Archaeology: 1.500 sites
Cultural productions (future heritage): ???
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5. Present status in The Netherlands
Yes
81%
No
19%
Digital collections
(N=140)
Yes No
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Yes
50%
No
50%
Born digital (N=131)
Yes No

6. Dutch progress of digitization
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26
35
35
46
26
11
43
46
52
45
67
42
31
19
13
9
7
46
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Mediaan
Totaal gem. (n=127)
Overig (n=13)
Musea (n=77)
Bibliotheken (n=5)
Archieven (n=32)
Stand van zaken digitalisering in NL (2017) (n=127)
% collectie gedigitaliseerd % collectie nog te digitaliseren % collectie niet digitaliseren

7. Digital Strategy
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58%
56%
75%
54%
60%
81%
72%
93%
97%
100%
Gemiddeld
Musea (n=81)
Overig (n=14)
Archieven (n=35)
Bibliotheken (n=5)
Aanwezigheid digitale collectie vs.
digitale strategie (n=140)
Collectie Strategie

8. 2. Dutch approach

9. National policy
There are two sides to Dutch national policy regarding
digitisation of cultural heritage:
Decentralised approach:
• Strengthening local activities and innovation
• Promoting creation of institutional ICT policies
• Investing in staff training
• Funding on national, provincial and local level
Strengthening the national infrastructure (in EU-context):
• “Digital Collection Netherlands”
• Infrastructure for preservation and access
• Legal framework / copyright
• Quality assurance based on self regulation
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10. What is DEN?
The DEN Foundation is the Dutch knowledge institute for digital
culture.
DEN supported good digitisation practices at archives, museums and
other cultural heritage institutions since 1999.
As of 2017 DEN start to help cultural producers: theatre, music,
audiovisual, architecture, design, etc.
DEN is sponsored by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Cultural Affairs
and Science for 5,7 fte
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11. Published in March 2015.
Roadmap to establish
crossdomain shared services for
digital heritage at the national
level.
Collaborative effort of Ministry
of Culture, National Institutions
and supporting organisations.
Not an official governmental
document.
National Strategy
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13. 3. Open Cultural Data

14. Value of (digital) cultural content
Information
Truth finding
Entertainment
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15. New value propositions
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Source:http://www.den.nl/art/uploads/files/Publicaties/BusModIn_eng_final.pdf

16. Characteristics
Encompass digital (representations of) cultural objects and/or
information about collections, activities or actors
Anybody is entitled to access, disseminate or reuse open cultural
data through licences or as public domain
Open cultural data is available in a standard usable format
Structure and application of open cultural data is readable
documented
Offering actor can be called upon and respects efforts of others to
develop new applications
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Source:https://www.opencultuurdata.nl

17. Copyright
Ownership versus right holders
Public domain, under copyright, orphan works
In house, online, in the network
THE BASICS for IPR management
(non)commercial
Licencing
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18. Technology
THE BASICS for findability
Identification (PID)
Accessibility
Machine readable
Reusable
Real-time?
Linked Open Data
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19. INSPIRING EXAMPLES?
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20. Rijksstudio
Rijksmuseum, National Museum
Open building, open collection
Power of the image
Democratising art
New audiences
Deeper engagement
Branding
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21. Re-use
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22. Europeana
Transform the world with culture
+ 50M cultural objects, +20M open
3500 providers
1700 professionals
Impact Framework
Rightsstatements.org
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23. IMPACT
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25. Wikimedia
Universal knowledge
Exposure
Global
Co-creation
Costless
Neutral
Multi-platform
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Source:https://www.slideshare.net/maartenbrinkerink

27. Share your knowledge about digitisation!
www.den.nl
e: marco.streefkerk@den.nl
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