beyond open access: creating culture by, with, and for the public

Beyond Open Access Creating Culture By, With,

and For the Public

CC BY-SA 4.0 Ida Tietgen Høyrup

Museum Computer NetworkNew Orleans, 3 November 2016

Merete SanderhoffCurator / Senior Advisorslideshare.net/meretesanderhoff@msanderhoff

https://twitter.com/PUBDOMAINHULK

Reality of digital

The Other Nefertiti

http://boingboing.net/2016/02/23/scanning-artists-de-loot-stole.html

“…there are ways where we don’t even need any topdown effort from institutions or museums, but where the people can reclaim the museums as their public space through alternative virtual realities, fiction, or captivating the objects like we did.”Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles

http://hyperallergic.com/274635/artists-covertly-scan-bust-of-nefertiti-and-release-the-data-for-free-online/

Copyright is “a little coral reef of private right jutting up from the ocean of Public Domain.”

Paul Torremans, Copyright law: a handbook of contemporary research, 2007

Adam Olearius, "Oftt begehrte Beschreibung Der Newen Orienthalischen Reise [...]", Schleswig 1647, KKSgb10873/28, SMK. Public Domain

Works that are in the Public Domain in analogue form continue to be in the Public Domain once they have been digitised.

http://pro.europeana.eu/files/Europeana_Professional/Publications/Public%20Domain%20Charter%20-%20EN.pdf

Who are we to judge what people do with public domain content?

@luscofusco on instagram, feat Cornelisz van Haarlem from SMK

“If they want to have a Vermeer on their toilet paper, I’d rather have a very high-quality image of Vermeer on toilet paper than a very bad reproduction.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/arts/design/museums-mull-public-use-of-online-art-images.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Taco DibbitsDirector, Rijksmuseum

Loss of control

Regaining controlby sharing

“Our primary mission is to ‘tell the truth’. We put as much quality in our work as possible. That is why we share the best quality we have. If people google ‘The Milkmaid’ by Vermeer then we want them to find our good quality image, not all the bad and deformed versions of this beautiful painting.”

Lizzy Jongma Former data manager, Rijksmuseum

SMK’s first digital strategy, 2009

We want to be a catalyst for

users’ creativity

Requires facilitation

http://jeannelking.com/services/graphic-facilitation/

Two examples

Remix exhibition May 2015

13 artists and designers were

invited to mix upSMK’s collections

The artists got to hack the museum for a weekend

CC BY-SA 4.0 Merete Sanderhoff


Their remixes ranged from lasercut installations…

Neea Laakso, Free?


…over tapestries, fashion clothes, collages…

Signe Emdal, Astrids Rose

Harald Slott-Møller, Danish landscape, 1891

Product of Public Domain


Jamie Seaboch, Collage

Filip Vest, 22 Skies


…to a projection of 22 golden age skies


…and a pop-up version of Hammershøiwith motorized moving light


Kati Hyyppä, As light goes by


Offered fresh perspectiveson the classic collection

Feedback from artists/designers


”It is a giant toolbox with a fantastic amount of materials to work with.”


“It was a very strong symbiotic experience to be in so close dialogue with the original work. It added a fresh dimension to the permanent collections.”



“It was a very strong symbiotic experience to be in so close dialogue with the original work. It added a fresh dimension to the permanent collections.”

“I have been creating collages using international museum collections for 20-25 years (...) But I have only been able to share them with my friends and family, knowing that if I were to present them publicly I would face legal retribution. Now I am, for the first time, allowed to share my perspective.”


Jamie Seaboch/EyeQ InnovationsCC BY-SA 4.0

Amazing things can happenwhen you let go of control

and let people play


Wiki Labs

- collaborating with Wikipedians,art historians and amateurs

to enrich art historical entries

Wikipedia needs open content

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing

Monthly meetups

- utilize open images- learn how to edit

- artist of the month- editathons

Artist of the month - before

Artist of the month - after

Museum professionals must abide by Wikipedia rules like everyone else.

The impact is worth it

SMK images got 20 million page views on Wikipedia in 2015

“Prioritize Web and New Media programs in proportion to their impact on the mission.”

Michael Edson, Smithsonian Web and New Media Strategy, Version 1.0, 2009http://www.si.edu/content/pdf/about/web-new-media-strategy_v1.0.pdf

Michael Edson /VanGoYourself

”I wish we would measure cultural heritage on learning and happiness.”

https://charlotteshj.dk/2016/05/26/gid-vi-maalte-kulturarv-paa-laering-og-lykke/

Charlotte S H JensenState Arhives/National Museum

”With our digitised collections, we can support people in being reflective, creative human beings. But the precondition is that cultural heritage is common property, and that each and every one of us can use it for exactly what we dream of.”

Mikkel Bogh Director, SMK

http://bit.ly/1dMX0BJ

Thank you.


Museum Computer NetworkNew Orleans, 3 November 2016

Merete SanderhoffCurator / Senior Advisorslideshare.net/meretesanderhoff@msanderhoff

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