Presentation to GLAM Wiki 2018 Conference, 5 November 2018, in Tel Aviv, Israel, by Douglas McCarthy and Andrea Wallace. Started in March 2018, the Open GLAM survey examines how GLAMs make open access data – whether digital objects, metadata or text – available for re-use. It is an informal, crowdsourced and ongoing initiative developed through outreach to GLAM professionals, cultural organisations and people online. It highlights the need for common practice and consistency in communicating open access effectively to users online.

1. Open GLAM around the world:
developing a global survey of open access
policy and practice in the GLAM sector
bit.ly/OpenGLAMsurvey
Andrea Wallace & Douglas McCarthy
5 November 2018, GLAMWiki Conference, Tel Aviv

2. Agenda
● About the survey
● Definition of open access
● Scope, method & structure
● Visualisations and insights
● Next steps
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

3. The Open GLAM survey examines how GLAMs make
open access data – whether digital objects,
metadata or text – available for re-use.
● Started in March 2018
● Informal and crowdsourced initiative
● Ongoing and growing:
30 GLAMs in March 2018 370+ GLAMs today
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

4. Survey authors
Douglas McCarthy @CultureDougAndrea Wallace @AndeeWallace
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

5. Why we started the survey
● Information gap
○ Lack of up-to-date information on this topic
○ No ‘shared place’ to see/add relevant data
○ Perceived European & North American bias in the field;
we are motivated to discover the global picture
● To develop a resource for
○ people who want to find & use open content or data
○ GLAMs exploring open access data & policy
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

6. Definition of open access
‘Open means anyone can freely access, use, modify, and
share for any purpose.’ (The Open Definition)
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

7. Conformant licences & rights statements
● Public Domain Mark
● CC0
● CC BY
● CC BY-SA
● No Known Copyright
and equivalents
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

8. Scope
● The survey covers data that GLAMs make available on their
websites and/or external platforms such as Github,
Europeana, German Digital Library or Wikimedia Commons
● The survey only covers digital surrogates of objects in the
public domain, where any term of copyright for the material
object has expired or never existed in the first place
● Only open access data is eligible (no NC or ND licences)
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

9. Method
● Information gathered via outreach to GLAMs, Wikipedians,
cultural bodies and interested people around the world
● Survey data is published in a ‘comment only’ Google Sheet:
http://bit.ly/OpenGLAMsurvey
● Anyone can suggest survey additions/amendments in the
Sheet directly, or contact Andrea or Douglas on Twitter
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

10. Survey structure
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

11. Survey structure
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

12. Survey structure
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

13. Open GLAM by country: global
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

14. Open GLAM by country: regional
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

15. Licence types in use
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

16. Open access scope
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

17. Open access scope
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

18. Open access scope
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

19. Open access scope
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

20. Some survey stats
Of the 372 GLAMs in the survey today:
293 have a stated licence for metadata
65 lack a Wikidata entity
45 have Githubs
201 make data accessible via Europeana & 16 DDB APIs
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

21. Policy vs practice
● The survey’s ‘Online Policy’ field links to the most relevant
rights policy and terms of use information that GLAMs
provide on their websites (when available),
BUT
- these pages are often generic and lacking in detail
- GLAM policy statements are often conflicting,
subject to change and do not expressly disclaim copyright
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

22. https://medium.com/berkman-klein-center/communicating-use-and-reuse-in-the-digital
-collection-interface-434d970c4d38
Recommended
reading on this topic
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

23. What’s next?
Continue to grow survey via global outreach
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

24. What’s next?
Model and map survey data to Wikidata
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY

25. Any questions?
Contact us
@AndeeWallace
@CultureDoug
bit.ly/OpenGLAMsurvey
Open GLAM around the world: developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector
Andrea Wallace and Douglas McCarthy, CC BY
John Jennings Esq., his brother-in-law and his wife, 1769
Alexander Roslin
Nationalmuseum, Public Domain