Open Images as an Open Culture Data case study at the MAI Tagung conference in Bonn - 23 May 2013.

2. • Biggest AV-archive in the Netherlands, with
– 800,000h of audiovisual heritage
– 2M pictures
– 20K objects
– ....much more
• Safeguards collections of public broadcasters,
organisations and private persons.
• Makes its holdings available to media professionals,
educational users and the general public.
ABOUT SOUND AND VISION

4. • 17 people
• Research with ICT component
– Focus: annotation and access
– demand-driven
• Collaboration with external parties (knowledge
organisations, SMEs, other heritage
organisations)
• Strategic research agenda
1. Networked heritage
2. New role of end users
3. Technique as a new intermediary

5. • Driven by large-scale digitisation programme Images for
the Future, we started two open content projects in 2008.
Open CONTENT at Sound and vision
12,000 pictures and counting1,800 videos and counting

6. • Driven by large-scale digitisation programme Images for
the Future, we started two open content projects in 2008.
Open CONTENT at Sound and vision
12,000 pictures and counting1,800 videos and counting
Today’s focusToday’s focus

7. Open Images is an open media platform
that offers online access to audiovisual
archive material to stimulate creative
reuse.
Built by Sound and Vision & Knowledgeland but
designed for participation by others.

11. • Open source (MMBase, FFmpeg, LAMP)
• Open media formats (Ogg Theora, WebM)
• Open standards (Dublin Core, CC-REL, HTML 5)
• Open API (OAI-PMH, CC-0)
• Open content (CC-licenses, PD)
OPEN, OPEN, OPEN!
Photographer: Justin Cormack. (User:Justinc on WIkimedia Commons). Title: Neon sign Open 2005 (see
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neon_Open_green.jpg). License: CC BY-SA- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

12. • Creative Commons BY-SA as preferable
license
• Goal: 3,000 items (now over 1,800)
• Available in‘internet quality’
OPEN CONTENT

15. PERSPECTIVES
•Length of entire S&V archive: 800,000h∼
•Length of ‘our’ newsreel collection: 500h∼
•Length of material in Open Images: 110h∼
24-05-13

16. PERSPECTIVES
•Length of entire S&V archive: 800,000h∼
•Length of ‘our’ newsreel collection: 500h∼
•Length of material in Open Images: 110h∼
i.e.:
⇒ 22% of ‘our’ newsreel collection available through
Open Images,

17. PERSPECTIVES
•Length of entire S&V archive: 800,000h∼
•Length of ‘our’ newsreel collection: 500h∼
•Length of material in Open Images: 110h∼
i.e.:
⇒ 22% of ‘our’ newsreel collection available through
Open Images,
⇒ which is 0.014% of our entire archive.

18. PERSPECTIVES
0.014%
0.014%

19. 24-05-13
IMPACT THROUGH OPENIMAGES.EU: reuse in
apps

20. Available content items
~1,600 (2011)
>1,800 (2012)
Visits
>66,000 (2011)
>105,000 (2012)
Unique visitors
>53,000 (2011)
~89,000 (2012)
IMPACT THROUGH OPENIMAGES.EU: PORTAL
USE

21. IMPACT THROUGH OPENIMAGES.EU: PORTAL
USE
Pageviews
~207,000 (2011)
~280,000 (2012)
Plays
~11,000 (2011)
>16,000 (2012)
API calls
~170,000 (2012)
Downloads
~2,400 (tracked since July 2012)

22. Biggest numbers: Wikimedia Commons | Wikipedia

26. Available content items
~1,600 (2011)
~1,600 (2012)
Number of Wikipedia articles with Open Images items
~1,000, in 59 languages (2011)
~1,600, in 65 languages (2012)
Pageviews of those articles
~19,000,000 (2011)
~40,000,000 (2012)
IMPACT THROUGH OPENIMAGES.EU: WIKIPEDIA

27. Wikipedia pages with Open Images items:
Page views March 2010

28. Wikipedia pages with Open Images items:
Page views March 2012

29. Wikipedia pages with Open Images items:
Page views March 2013

30. • Maarten Brinkerink (Sound and Vision)
• Johan Oomen (Sound and Vision)
• Maarten Zeinstra (Kennisland)
Shout-out

31. www.openimages.eu
lbbaltussen@beeldengeluid.nl
@lottebelice |@OpenImages | @BengLabs
THANKS! QUESTIONS?