Analysis pro’s and con’s Open Data

Pro’s (arguments in favor of implementing Open Data):

1Agree 2 Neutral 3Disagree

Open data is in line with public mission of museums O O O

Open data increases channels to end users O O O

Open data increases relevance O O O

Open data will lead to data enrichment O O O

Open data will add to brand value O O O

Open data will lead to specific funding opportunities O O O

Open data will lead to desired spillover effects O O O

e.g. new ways to earn money, increase audiences etc.

Open data will lead to new customers O O O

Open data will help building/gaining expertise O O O

Other arguments: …….

Which arguments are relevant for your institution? ……..

Con’s (arguments againstimplementing Open Data):

1 Agree 2 Neutral 3 Disagree

Open data will lead to loss of income/potential income O O O

Open data will lead to a loss of (online-) visitors O O O

Unwanted spillover effects O O O

e.g. someone else will earn money with your collection

Loss of attribution O O O

e.g. People don’t know that the real object is in your museum

Loss of (control of) quality O O O

Other arguments: …….

Which arguments are relevant for your institution? ……..

Question marks (questions you need to answer before you can make an argument about Open

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Checklist Implementation Open Data

Institutional Policies

1. Do you have policies implemented for Open Data and/or sharing digital (meta-) data?

o Yes

o Yes, we share under the following conditions…

o No

2. Do you have a (potential) business model with regard to selling digital (meta-) data?

o Yes, we sell digital (meta-)data

o No, but we think we can make money selling our (meta-)data

o No

3. How can Open Data help achieve the goals of your museum?

…

Copyright

4. Are you facing copyright issues with regard to opening your(meta-) data?

o Yes

o Partially

o No

5. Do you have policiesimplemented for clearing copyright?

o Yes, we conduct searches to the right holder

o Yes, we have signed an agreement with a representative organisation

o No, we only open (meta-)data that is free of rights

o No

6. Do you have licensing policies implemented?

o Yes, our (meta-) data is licensed as following…

o No, we still need to figure out a licensing model

o No, we don’t want to license our (meta-)data

Technique

7. Do you have structured, digital data resources?

o Yes, we have one or more databases

o No, we have digital resources but not in a structured format

o No

8. Is your digital (meta-)data in an Open Data format?

o Yes, in (e.g. Dublin Core, LIDO) …

o No

o I don’t know

9. Are you able to connect your resources to the internet?

o Yes, we have an API or OAI-PMH implemented

o Yes, we made our resources available on another platform

o No, not yet but we are going to

o No, it is impossible for us

Managing, maintaining and promoting your Open Data

10. Do you have systems implemented, or will you implement systems to manage and

maintain your open data set(s)?

o Yes, because we want developer registration

o Yes, because we have different datasets

o Yes, because …

o No

11. How many users do you expect?

o 1-100

o 101-1001

o …

12. What results do you expect?

…

13. How do you promote your API?

o We have a marketing plan

o We use social media

o We participate in competitions

o We have a webpage about our API

o We don’t do any promotion

o …