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OpenGLAM: Building a Cultural Commons - Together

Reasons, obstacles and how we try to overcome themWarsaw, 12-10/2013@jpekel

Saturday 12 October 2013(w)

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à About Europeana and the OpenGLAM initiativeà Why Open?à What are the obstacles?à How are we trying to solve this?

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Europeana’s vision and mission

à Europeana is a catalyst for change in the world of cultural heritage.

à Our mission: The Europeana Foundation and its Network create new ways for people to engage with their cultural history, whether it’s for work, learning or pleasure.

à Our vision: We believe in making cultural heritage openly accessible in a digital way, to promote the exchange of ideas and information. This helps us all to understand our cultural diversity better and contributes to a thriving knowledge economy.

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à 29m records from 2,200 European galleries, museums, archives and libraries

à Books, newspapers, journals, letters, diaries, archival papers

à Paintings, maps, drawings, photographs

à Music, spoken word, radio broadcasts

à Film, newsreels, television

à Curated exhibitionsà 31 languages

Europe’s cultural heritage portal

OpenGLAM initiative

An initiative of the Open Knowledge FoundationSupported by a network of organisations and local initiatives working to open up content and data held by GLAMs which includes the likes of Europeana, the Digital Public Library of America, Creative Commons and WikimediaA provider of expertise to GLAMs on open issuesA growing network of open culture evangelists in various countries

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OpenGLAM initiative

Open Definition

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“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.”

Why Open?

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à Public Missionà Larger Audienceà Connect and contextualise collectionsà The digital dream

Why Open?

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Public Mission

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"Enable access to everyone who wants to do research" - British Library, Our Mission and 2020 Vision

"Our core values are: accessibility, sustainability, innovation and cooperation." -National Library of the Netherlands, Our Mission and Vision

"To provide diverse audiences with the best quality experience and optimum access to our collections, physically and digitally." - the Victoria & Albert Museum, Mission and Objectives

"The Federal Archives have the legal responsibility of permanently preserving the federal archival documents and making them available for use." - German Federal Archives - Responsibilities

The National Gallery of Denmark is Denmark’s premier museum of art. Through Accessibility, education, and exhibition - Danish National Gallery - Mission

Why Open?

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Larger Audience

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à Put your material where the users are

Why Open?

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Connect and Contextualise

Why Open?

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The Digital Dream

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A world in which our shared cultural heritage, the map of humanity, is open to all regardless of their background A world in which people are no longer passive consumers of cultural content created by an elite, but contribute, participate, create and share

What are the obstacles? And how are we trying to overcome them?

Obstacles

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à Concerns over lost revenue streamà Worries about misuse of data and contentà Technical challenges: Standards and toolsà Legal uncertainties

Obstacles

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Loss of revenue

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Obstacles

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Fear of loss of control

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à Linking always back to your original fileà Europeana as trusted source for cultural dataà ‘Problem of the Yellow Milkmaid’

(http://pro.europeana.eu/documents/858566/2cbf1f78-e036-4088-af25-94684ff90dc5)à Expertise much requested online

What makes up a Europeana record?

Thumbnail/preview

Metadata

Obstacles

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Technical standards and tools

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à The Europeana Data Model (EDM)

  Compatibility with different levels of description

1.  Allow different levels of granularity

2.  Allow the specification of domain-specific application profiles

3.  Enable the re-use of existing standards

Obstacles

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à Concerns over lost revenue streamà Worries about misuse of data and contentà Technical challengesà Legal uncertainties

Looking for content to reuse!

Refining content by types of reuse allowed!

How can you reuse this object?!

What does �Rights Reserved …� mean?!

How do I access that great poster?!

Rights Statements

Layer #1: Digital objects (on the site of the provider)!

Layer #2: Previews (lower quality versions of #1) !

Layer #3: Metadata (descriptive object information)!

EDM:rights!

Preview & Digital Objects are licensed as described in �EDM: rights�!

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Twelve Rights Statements available for EDM: rights!

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Europeana want more of these…!

… and less of these…!

The data providers experience

Rights Statements & Issues!

•  We have our own licensing policy

•  Our collection is very complex

•  Europeana Rights Statements don�t apply to our collection

•  We don�t need to provide a Rights Statement, that information

is clear from our website

•  We don�t know which Rights Statements applies

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Rights Statements & Solutions!

•  Europeana have clearly defined Rights Statements;

•  Published at www.europeana.eu/portal/rights/terms-and-policies

•  Europeana provide tools for determining the Rights Statement;

•  Public Domain Calculator

•  EDM Rights Selection Tool

•  Europeana deliver workshops and bespoke advice

•  Europeana advocate via publications such as The Public Domain Charter

•  Europeana monitor the usage and appropriateness of the Rights

Statements

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Conclusion

The 21st century GLAM

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It remains:

The key preserver of our shared cultural heritageAn authoritative source of information and expertise about your collectionsYou curate, contextualise and tell stories about your collections

The 21st century GLAM

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It stands to gain:

An audience far beyond the wildest dreams of its first foundersConnections to other collections that contextualise stories about its objectsA closer connection to its audience (and the improvements to its digital collections that come with that)

Thank you

Joris Pekel

Joris.pekel@kb.nl@jpekel

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