OKFest 2014, Berlin. Workshop regarding the OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey.

1. Getting Ready for the OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey
17 July 2014 – OKFest, Berlin
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2. ▶ Introduction to the OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey project
Beat Estermann
▶ Getting a maximum out of the survey
• The Netherlands
Joris Pekel
• Finland
Laura Sillanpää
• India
Subhasish Panigrahi
▶ Discussion and Questions & Answers
Moderation: Lieke Ploeger
Welcome!

3. Introduction to the OpenGLAM Benchmark
Survey Project

4. ▶ Online survey conducted among heritage institutions throughout the
world in the second half of 2014.
▶ Focusing on questions related to
digitization, exchange of metadata,
open data/open content, semantic web,
social media, crowdsourcing
▶ Inspired by an earlier pilot survey,
carried out in Switzerland in 2012
▶ Organized in a federative manner, which
means that the organization depends on
volunteers and partners in each country
What is the OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey about?

5. ▶ Measure the state of advancement of OpenGLAM in the participating
countries
▶ Inform the GLAM community about the latest developments in the area of
OpenGLAM
▶ Identify potential partners for open data and/or crowdsourcing projects
▶ Use the study report as a communication instrument to promote
OpenGLAM
▶ Use the study report as an instrument for lobbying activities in favour of
OpenGLAM and the advancement of free knowledge
▶ Provide international comparisons:
• Allowing each country to see where it stands compared to other countries.
• Provide the international OpenGLAM community with a tool that helps it better
understand the particularities of each country
What do we want to achieve?

6. Overview of participating countries
Further countries are welcome to join!
Overview: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/OpenGLAM_Benchmark_Survey/Participating_countries
Participation status (as of 17 July 2014)
Green: committed
Yellow: awaiting confirmation
Underlying graphic file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BlankMap-World-v2.png Roke et al. (CC-by-sa)

7. ▶ Join one of the national teams or set-up your own!
▶ Main tasks at the national level:
• Ensure the translation of the questionnaire into your national
language(s)
• Gather e-mail contacts of the heritage institutions in your country
• Answer questions during the adminstration of the questionnaire
▶ Optional:
• Promote the survey results in your country
• Carry out country-specific analyses of the survey data
• Promote OpenGLAM in your country
How can you contribute?

8. Getting a maximum out of the survey
• The Netherlands
• Finland
• India

9. The Netherlands
George Hendrik Breitner - De Singelbrug bij de Paleisstraat. Rijksmuseum (Public Domain)

10. ▶ OpenCultuurData.nl
▶ NL Wikimedia chapter has (payed) GLAMwiki coordinator
▶ Largest provider of open images in Europeana
▶ Number of international key players such as the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands
Institute for Sound and Vision and the National Library
▶ Open culture initiatives get some funding from the ministry of culture
▶ Very often one department very active, the other one not at all.
▶ Smaller and mid-size institutions getting more interest in opening their
collections, lots of questions about how to best do this
OpenGLAM in the Netherlands

11. ▶ What do we want to get out of this survey?
▶ Data!
▶ Mapping the sector
▶ Encourage institutions to think about their digital strategy
▶ Go beyond „The usual suspects“
▶ What we have done so far:
▶ Help develop the survey questions
▶ Pre-test with a number of institutions
▶ People contacted very enthousiastic
▶ Difficulty with getting contact details. Mostly our own networks
Implementing the OpenGLAM Survey in the
Netherlands

12. ▶ How to reach the people that are not in some way thinking about opening up
their colllections already, should we?
▶ What to do if the museum associations etc. are not willing to share their
contacts/the survey?
▶ What would be a minimum number of respondents to make it useful?
Questions

13. ▶ The Finnish context:
▶ Digitisation of cultural objects increased substantially after 2008: The
Ministry of Education and Culture’s discretionary funding
▶ Finland still behind many European countries in terms of open cultural data
and related aspects of openness
▶ Open cultural data master course in 2014 by Open Knowledge Finland
▶ Local objectives for OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey
▶ Help spread awareness of open culture and cultural data in general
▶ Map the actual situation in relation to open cultural data & learn what is
needed
▶ Compare the Finnish situation with those of other countries and learn from
good practices
Finland
http://avoinglam.fi https://twitter.com/avoinglam https://www.flickr.com/avoinglam

14. India
आदिवासी कलाकारों द्वारा नृत्य प्रिर्शन.jpg by User:Anilbhardwajnoida/Wikimedia Commons. CC-BY-SA 3.0

15. India
▶ Wikimedia India chapter and WMF's India program worked together for
India's first GLAM project
▶ Good traction of image contribution during the Wiki Loves Monument photo
contest
▶ Mass communication and other media institutions slowly taking interst in
open audio library
▶ OpenGLAM initiatives related to digitization could get support from the
government as digitization is a priority across departments
▶ Majority of GLAM institutions lack knowledge about open culture, need for
outreach
▶ Relicensing and book digitization have gained public interest

16. ▶ What do we want to get out of this survey?
▶ Data!
▶ Mapping the sector
▶ Encourage institutions to think about their digital strategy
▶ Show institutions "what is there for them“
▶ What we have done so far:
▶ Started filing Right to Information (RT) asking the state government
departments for lists of institutions
▶ Reached out to WMIN seeking help for creating a list
▶ Difficulty with getting people and contact details
Implementing the OpenGLAM Survey in India

17. ▶ What to do if the museum associations etc. are not willing to share their
contacts/the survey?
▶ What would be a minimum number of respondents to make it useful?
Questions

18. Discussion
Questions & Answers

19. ▶ Contact Details:
• Beat Estermann
E-mail: beat.estermann@bfh.ch
Phone: +41 31 848 34 38
• Lieke Ploeger
E-mail: lieke.ploeger@okfn.org
▶ Project Portal:
• http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/OpenGLAM_Benchmark_Survey
Thank you for your participation!