1. The Digital Museum as Platform
Jacob R. Wang, DR Byen, Dec 2012
#sharecare12 // @jacob_wang
2. “Let’s get real!”
Concrete cases on opening up and collaborating with the public!
Challenges engaging with people we don't normally reach?
How do vision and reality interact?
What are the keys to success?
Biggest barriers when letting go of control over “our” assets?
3. The National Museum of Denmark
Established 1807
550 employees | 1 million hours | 35 million Euro
4. MISSION
The National Museum embody and develop the prerequisites for
everyone to be able to gain insight into cultural history
17. WHAT’S IN THE CRYSTAL BALL?
Relevant trends and disruptive tools
Further SoLoMo, Semantic Web, Natural interfaces, Image
recognition, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence
18. WHAT CAN WE DO NOW?
Pick principles and tactics + do stuff
Government 2.0, Linked Open Data, Copyright
Policy, Infrastructure development, Digitisation, Metadata
production, Devops, Lean Startup methodologies
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22. PREPARATION
4 institutions
½ year easy + 2 weeks amok
20.000 kr (+ 10.000 M$)
Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Mail, G+ Hangouts, Google Docs
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24. #hack4dk kickoff
October 2012 – 8 Ignite talks on open data/culture/source
Videocamera = Youtube ;)
33. First contact
With developer communities in DK
Great fun
Everybody had a blast!
Cool prototypes
Ideas and perspectives from “outsiders”
Great media-coverage
“Hack-a-what?! Sounds interesting!”
34. ”This hackathon is a good example that (…)
cultural institutions have embraced the digital
challenge.
In my view, culture has great potential to
become a much larger force in the Danish
society, and free access to culture data is a
big step in the right direction.“
- Uffe Elbæk, Minister of Culture
35. OUTCOMES “for us”
Deployment of Natmus API (beta)
Documentation of Royal Library API
Deplyment of CPH City Archive API (alpha)
Real-world application of DK Heritage Agency API
Raised awareness of the value of open data
36. #HACK4DK 2013
MORE DATA, MORE TIME, MORE FOCUS
NEW PARTICIPANTS MORE THEMES
NEW PARTICIPANTS
Institutions MORE THEMES
Gaming
Developers
Institutions Culture
Gaming
Designers (GFX, UX, UI)
Developers Turism
Culture
Concept designers UI)
Designers (GFX, UX, ”Borgerservice”
Turism
Storytellers
Concept designers ”Borgerservice”
Education
Teachers
Storytellers Education
Editors
Teachers
Editors
37. MISSION
The National Museum embody and develop the prerequisites for
everyone to be able to gain insight into cultural history
38. Creating mashable content
MISSION
The National Museum embody and develop the prerequisites for
everyone to be able to gain insight into cultural history
Via 3rd party mashups
41. THE DIGITAL NATIONAL MUSEUM
Openness, Accessibility, Transparency
Digital workspace development
Digital literacy
We’re putting the pedal to the metal!
42. THE DIGITAL NATIONAL MUSEUM
Full digitisation and accessibility
Massive representation in Europeana
Infrastructure development
Collection crowdsourcing
Open Source Tools
...and many other things!
43. WE CAN’T DO THIS ALONE!
Collaboration with DK museums
Collaboration with
”regular people”
heritage enthusiasts
audiences and communities
education and learning institutions
start-ups and commercial businesses
The museum is more than 200 years old and holds collections of millions of objects and images – and huge amounts of data.Significant amounts of resources are spent here as well.
And all our efforts are guide by this statement:Our mission: to embody and develop the prerequisites for everyone to be able to gain insight into cultural heritage.It might seem a little clunky, but that’s my poor translation.