OpenGLAM Poland: Building a Cultural Commons togeter

OpenGLAM: Building a Cultural
Commons - Together
Reasons, obstacles and how we try to overcome them
@jpekel
Saturday 12 October 2013(w)

Warsaw, 12-10/2013

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About Europeana and the OpenGLAM initiative
Why Open?
What are the obstacles?
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
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world of cultural heritage.
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.
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.

Europe’s cultural heritage portal
à 29m records from 2,200

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European galleries,
museums, archives and
libraries
Books, newspapers,
journals, letters, diaries,
archival papers
Paintings, maps,
drawings, photographs
Music, spoken word,
radio broadcasts
Film, newsreels,
television
Curated exhibitions
31 languages

OpenGLAM initiative

An initiative of the Open Knowledge
Foundation
Supported 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 Wikimedia
A provider of expertise to GLAMs on open
issues
A growing network of open culture
evangelists in various countries
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OpenGLAM initiative


Open Definition

“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.”

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Why Open?


Why Open?
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Public Mission
Larger Audience
Connect and contextualise collections
The digital dream

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Why Open?
à Public Mission
à Larger Audience
à Connect and contextualise collections
à The digital dream

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Public Mission
"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

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Larger Audience
à Put your material where the users are

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Connect and Contextualise


The Digital Dream
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

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


Obstacles
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Concerns over lost revenue stream
Worries about misuse of data and content
Technical challenges: Standards and tools
Legal uncertainties

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Obstacles
à Concerns over lost revenue stream
à Worries about misuse of data and content
à Technical challenges: Standards and tools
à Legal uncertainties

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Loss of revenue

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Fear of loss of control
à Linking always back to your original file
à Europeana as trusted source for cultural data
à ‘Problem of the Yellow Milkmaid’
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(http://pro.europeana.eu/documents/858566/2cbf1f78-e036-4088-af25-94684ff90dc5)
Expertise much requested online

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What makes up a Europeana record?



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Metadata


Technical standards and tools

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

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Obstacles
à Concerns over lost revenue stream
à Worries about misuse of data and content
à Technical challenges
à Legal uncertainties

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Looking for content to reuse

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Refining content by types of reuse allowed

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How can you reuse this object?

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What does Rights Reserved … mean?

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How do I access that great poster?

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Rights Statements


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

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Layer #3: Metadata (descriptive object information)

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

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

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Twelve Rights Statements available for
EDM: rights
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Europeana want more of these…

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… and less of these…

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The data providers experience


Rights Statements & Issues

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•  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

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•  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
It remains:
The key preserver of our shared cultural heritage
An authoritative source of information and expertise about your
collections
You curate, contextualise and tell stories about your collections

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The 21st century GLAM
It stands to gain:
An audience far beyond the wildest dreams of its first founders
Connections to other collections that contextualise stories about
its objects
A closer connection to its audience (and the improvements to its
digital collections that come with that)

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Thank you
Joris Pekel
@jpekel

Joris.pekel@kb.nl

OpenGLAM Poland: Building a Cultural Commons togeter

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