building the global cultural commons

Building the GlobalCultural Commons

Jonathan Gray (@jwyg)Director of Policy and Ideasjonathan.gray@okfn.org

US OpenGLAM Launch23th March 2013

Berkeley School of InformationUniversity of California

Who are theOpen Knowledge Foundation?

We are a global movement to open up knowledge around the world and see it used and useful.

We bring together a diverse community, building a network of individuals and organisations, founded on key principles.

We create change by educating, empowering, evangelising and making.

We promote open access, open content, and open data, and the public domain.

1. Opening up knowledge2. Seeing it used and useful

1. Opening up knowledge2. Seeing it used and useful

What do we mean by open?

“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 sharealike.” - OpenDefinition.org

How do we promote openness?

Principles, policies and practises

People

Big network of evangelists, hackers, makers, civil servants, civil society organisations, scientists, students, journalists, researchers, curators, lawyers, librarians, archivists, activists, artists, analysts, designers, educators, etc.

Working Groups in different domains.

Local Groups in countries and cities around the world.

Events

Documentation

1. Opening up knowledge2. Seeing it used and useful

How do we promote reuse?

Skills and training

Awards and competitions

Tools and projects

What is OpenGLAM?

We want to build a strong global coalition of people and organisations

who are working to open up the world’s cultural heritage.

1. Open metadata about works from catalogues,

and databases.

2. Open digital copies of works which have

entered the public domain.

How?

OpenGLAM network

OpenGLAM principles

OpenGLAM workshops

OpenGLAM handbook

OpenGLAM _________

Culture Labs

The dream

A vibrant cultural commons that everyone is free to use and enjoy

Freely reusable copy of every public domain work in the world

An open database of the world’s heritage

Every work by creator X

Every work from period Y

Every work related to place Z

Collaborating around the commons

Adding value to the commons

Curation, transcription, description, identification, geolocation, annotation,

translation, interpretation, context

No barriers to usage

More creativity and innovation,greater awareness, more uptake

The world’s culture for everyone

A shared vision

Working together to make it happen

Jonathan Grayjonathan.gray@okfn.org | @jwyg

Director of Policy and IdeasThe Open Knowledge Foundation

http://okfn.org | @okfn