Presentation for the INSIGHT launch event, Brussels - 9/11/2017

1. INSIGHT project - Launch event
MIM Brussels - 9 November 2017
Saskia Scheltjens
Head of the Research Services Department
DATA
OPEN
Challenges & Opportunities
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2. OUTLINE
• Rijksmuseum
• Rijksmuseum data
• Open Rijksmuseum data

3. National Museum of Art and History
Mission: Connect People with Art and History
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4. Research Services Department
Mission: Connect People with Art and History through data
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A LOT OF DATA

5. small HISTORY OF
DATA & COLLECTION
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

6. Facts and Figures
History
1800 - ‘Nationale Kunstgalerij’
1808 – Koninklijk Museum
1815 – Rijks Museum (+ Print Room)
1875 – Design by PJH Cuypers
1885 – Opening Rijksmuseum building
2004 – Start renovation & restoration
2013 – Reopening
Physical Collection (2017)
- Collection of ~1,200,000 objects
-> Prints & Drawings ~700.000 objects
- Library collection ~450.000 volumes
- Current artworks on display 8.526 (7%)
Debedreigdezwaan,JanAsselijn,ca.1650http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.5829

7. Library as THE 19th century place for art and research

8. The world of connaisseurs
Reading Room (Cuypers Library Hall), 1928 Study Room (Prints & Drawings), 1928

9. PROFESSIONALISATION
Formal collection registration & policies for
library & object collection cataloging
1981 Standardized library cataloging (ISBD)
1988 Implementation of MARDOC rules for
collection registration (-> SPECTRUM)

10. Ben Strik – 2013 - https://www.facebook.com/vpro/videos/10156926675263986
The Challenges of Metadata

11. ORGANISATIONAL
pre-2007
Integrated responsabilities
within curatorial
departments
regarding information /
data management

12. ORGANISATIONAL
Separated responsabilities
between curatorial &
supporting departments
2007 Collection Management
Conservation
2016 Research Services

13. AUTOMATION & REGISTRATION
1980 First computer in the museum
1989 First modem, terminal & automated
library system (TinLib)
1990 Collection registration in automated
collection management systems
(Quixis 1990-1998; Adlib 1998-now)

14. Geert-Jan Koot with first modem & terminal Rijksmuseum (1989)
Olivetti M24 (1989)

15. REGISTRATION & DIGITIZATION
2007 - Mass digitization complete RMA collection
(Print Room/Collection) Online Project

16. Registration through acquisition

17. SCALING UP - NETWORK POWER
1999 First Rijksmuseum website
2002 First online library catalogue (OPAC)
+ first open data exports via Z39.50 > SRU
2005 CHIP project NWO/CATCH – reseach program
(personalization using semantic data)

18. Part of the CHIP data model

19. Museum renovation/restoration, closed 2003-2013

20. Re-opening of the museum (2013)

21. AND DURING THAT TIME
THE INTERNET
HAPPENED
EXPLODED

22. The Yellow Milkmaid Syndrome

23. Regaining control
by sharing

24. Knowledge needs to be shared
Taco Dibbits
General Director Rijksmuseum
Core of current de facto Open Data Policy

25. SCALING UP - NETWORK POWER
Open collection data policy
Collection
Rijksstudio - discovery interface (2013)
API’s -> Europeana (2013), …
Library
SRU -> AdamNet (2003); VKK (2004);
WORLDCAT (2012); ADGC (2014)

26. CC BY (Attribution only)
https://creativecommons.org/
licenses/by/4.0
CC0 Waiver
https://creativecommons.org/
publicdomain/zero/1.0
EVOLUTION OPEN DATA POLICIES RMA
2011
2013

29. Collection discovery interface (Q42/Fabrique)
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search

30. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/api

31. API Key -> controlled access

32. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/api/rijksmuseum-
oai-api-instructions-for-use - data format: DC

33. http://rijksmuseum.github.io/ (documentation)
https://github.com/Rijksmuseum (code)

34. JSON
Elements
• Collection: The complete online collection of
the Rijksmuseum with all public data
• Content pages: Static pages as used on the
website.
• Usersets: Sets from Rijksstudio users.
• Calendar: Calendar and availability of
expositions, tours, etc.

35. https://datahub.io/nl/dataset/rijksmuseum
http://accurator.nl
COMMIT SealincMedia Project (2015-2016)
+ first tests with triple store RMA

36. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/vogelen
Photo by Romaine – CC0 1.0 -
COMMIT SealincMedia Project (2015-2016)
+ first public crowd-sourcing events

37. Floor Koeleman (C2DH)
RMA data visualization project (2017)

38. RESEARCH SERVICES CHALLENGES
To name but a few ….
• Overcome ‘death by silo’
• Interdisciplinary co-operation
• New additional information services
• Renewed sustainable data architecture
• Extended open data strategy
• Interoperable, networked (semantic), open

39. From a closed library to an open collection data space
Rijksmuseum Library (2013)Rijksmuseum Library (2004) – cop. Candida Höfer

40. Contact information
QUESTIONS?
Saskia Scheltjens
s.scheltjens@rijksmuseum.nl
http://www.slideshare.net/saschel/presentations
@saschel
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41. THANK YOU
Parts of this presentation are based upon
work of and talks with
Taco Dibbits
Geert-Jan Koot
Trilce Navarete
Lora Aroyo
Lizzy Jongma
Chris Dijkshoorn
and many more