The document discusses open data and cultural heritage. It describes how making cultural works open through initiatives like Creative Commons can provide benefits to institutions by increasing awareness, engagement, and potential customers. Specific examples are provided of open data projects involving digitizing manuscripts at the Matenadaran museum and improving Wikipedia articles about World Heritage sites in Malaysia and Malta. The document also outlines various activities museums can engage in with communities like editathons and tours to encourage collaboration and sharing of open cultural works.
1. DigiSILK, July 2015 Roma
“Open Data and cultural heritage”
Liam Wyatt / @Wittylama
2. Preston Stone (CC-By-SA) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GLAM_logo,_square,_transparent.png
3. A piece of data or content is open if
anyone is free to use, reuse,
and redistribute it — subject
only, at most, to the requirement
to attribute and/or share-alike
http://openglam.org/
http://glamwiki.org/
13. Direct value for the GLAM
Better quality online, leads to…
More distribution, which leads to…
14. Direct value for the GLAM
Better quality online, leads to…
More distribution, which leads to…
More engagement, which leads to…
15. Direct value for the GLAM
Better quality online, leads to…
More distribution, which leads to…
More engagement, which leads to…
More inbound links, which leads to…
16. Direct value for the GLAM
Better quality online, leads to…
More distribution, which leads to…
More engagement, which leads to…
More inbound links, which leads to…
More inbound clicks, which leads to…
17. Direct value for the GLAM
Better quality online, leads to…
More distribution, which leads to…
More engagement, which leads to…
More inbound links, which leads to…
More inbound clicks, which leads to…
More awareness, which leads to…
18. Direct value for the GLAM
Better quality online, leads to…
More distribution, which leads to…
More engagement, which leads to…
More inbound links, which leads to…
More inbound clicks, which leads to…
More awareness, which leads to…
Larger quantity of customers.
19. Direct value for the GLAM
Better quality online, leads to…
More distribution, which leads to…
More engagement, which leads to…
More inbound links, which leads to…
More inbound clicks, which leads to…
More awareness, which leads to…
Larger quantity of customers.
20. What we are NOT talking about
• SEO
• Social Media
• Branding
• Undermining the authority of
the expertise, the institution,
or the collection.
25. Speicific example 3: The specific item
“…The Matenadaran houses a collection of medieval
manuscripts containing patristic and other
Armenian translations (5th century) from Greek or
Syriac, the originals of which have disappeared:
they include Six hundred questions and answers
about the Book of Genesis by Philo of Alexandria,
works by Hermes Trismegistos or Basil of Cesarea
and even the Chronicon by Eusebius of Cesarea
which is a vital source for the history of the first
three centuries of Christianity…”
35. An array of GLAMWIKI activities
Feature Article challenge
1-to-1 collaboration
Backstage pass tour
Editathons
Article creation challenge
QRpedia
People are STILL updating the project:
BabelStone (CC-0) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
File:British_Museum_Royal_Gold_Cup.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Wikipedia:GLAM/
British_Museum
