re:publica - building and curating the commons

“Building a Cultural Commons”

Joris Pekel@jpekel

Re:Publica06/05/2013

Monday 6 May 2013(w)

Overview

The Commons

Why (not) Open?

Open Projects

Curating the Commons


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Digital content or data that is free to use, re-use and re-distribute without technical or legal restriction


Galleries Libraries, Archives and Museums

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Galleries Libraries, Archives and Museums

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http://opendefinition.org




What is the Commons?


What is the Commons?

“resources accessible to all members of a society”

- Wikipedia


Environmental Examples

AirFishForrest

http://www.flickr.com/photos/flannol/6864112329/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/monkeyatlarge/16645379/http://www.flickr.com/photos/uberculture/4694130032/


http://www.flickr.com/photos/flannol/6864112329/


http://www.flickr.com/photos/monkeyatlarge/16645379/


http://www.flickr.com/photos/uberculture/4694130032/



AirFishForrest


Non Excludable









AirFishForrest


Non Excludable

Non Excludable









AirFishForrest


Non Excludable

Non Excludable

Non Excludable









AirFishForrest


Non Excludable

Non Excludable

Non Excludable

Non Rivalrous








What is the Digital Commons?

"An information and knowledge resources that are collectively created and owned or shared between or among a community and that is, be (generally freely) available to third parties. Thus, they are oriented to favor use and reuse, rather than to exchange as a commodity.”

- Mayo Fuster Morell - OKFN


The promise of the Digital Commons



Non Excludable



Non Excludable Non Rivalrous




Re-Usable




Re-Usable

Digital artifacts can be curated, remixed, annotated by anyone


Types of Data

• Content data

• Metadata


Digitised Content

• (images)


Metadata


Metadata

• Name of Author


Metadata

• Name of Author

• Title


Metadata

• Name of Author

• Title

• Date of Creation


Metadata

• Name of Author

• Title


• Size of Painting


Metadata

• Name of Author

• Title



• Transcription


Metadata

• Name of Author

• Title



• Transcription

• Translation


Metadata

• Name of Author

• Title



• Transcription

• Translation

• Analysis of content


Metadata

• Name of Author

• Title



• Transcription

• Translation

• Analysis of content

• Further Reading


Why Open?


Why Open?

• Helping GLAMs fulfill their public mission


Why Open?

• Helping GLAMs fulfill their public mission• Larger audience


Why Open?

• Helping GLAMs fulfill their public mission• Larger audience• Allow your audiences to participate


Why Open?

• Helping GLAMs fulfill their public mission• Larger audience• Allow your audiences to participate• Connect and contextualise collections


Why Open?

• Helping GLAMs fulfill their public mission• Larger audience• Allow your audiences to participate• Connect and contextualise collections• Keep memory institutions relevant in a Digital Age


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


http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/2020vision/themes/index.html

http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/2020vision/themes/index.html

http://www.kb.nl/en/organization-and-policy/our-mission-and-vision

http://www.kb.nl/en/organization-and-policy/our-mission-and-vision

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/v/v-and-a-mission-and-objectives/

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/v/v-and-a-mission-and-objectives/

http://www.bundesarchiv.de/bundesarchiv/aufgaben/index.html.en

http://www.bundesarchiv.de/bundesarchiv/aufgaben/index.html.en

http://www.smk.dk/en/about-smk/organization/

http://www.smk.dk/en/about-smk/organization/

Global AudienceOpen Images project in the Netherlands

• 1500 items on Wikimedia commons about Dutch history.

• Being used in 500 articles in the Netherlands

• More than 700 times in 63 different languages

• Average article views per month: more than 2,5 million

http://www.openimages.eu/blog/2013/02/20/impact-metrics-increase-in-reach-and-reuse-of-open-images/Monday 6 May 2013(w)

http://www.openimages.eu/blog/2013/02/20/impact-metrics-increase-in-reach-and-reuse-of-open-images/


Global AudienceOpen Images project in the Netherlands

• 1500 items on Wikimedia commons about Dutch history.

• Being used in 500 articles in the Netherlands

• More than 700 times in 63 different languages

• Average article views per month: more than 2,5 million

0.015% of their Collection

http://www.openimages.eu/blog/2013/02/20/impact-metrics-increase-in-reach-and-reuse-of-open-images/Monday 6 May 2013(w)



Participation

• Visitors and users can actively contribute to aspects of your collections:

o Curationo Enrichment and improvemento Provide content for new collections


Connect and Contextualise

The Neue Pinakothek, München

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_128.jpg

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vincent_Van_Gogh_0010.jpg






Issues


Issues

• Concerns over lost revenue streams


Issues

• Concerns over lost revenue streams• Attraction of private schemes that lockdown heritage


Issues

• Concerns over lost revenue streams• Attraction of private schemes that lockdown heritage• Worries about the misuse of data and content


Issues

• Concerns over lost revenue streams• Attraction of private schemes that lockdown heritage• Worries about the misuse of data and content• Legal uncertainties: licensing, orphan works


Issues

• Concerns over lost revenue streams• Attraction of private schemes that lockdown heritage• Worries about the misuse of data and content• Legal uncertainties: licensing, orphan works• Technical challenges: standards, tools


‘Open’ Projects


‘Open’ Projects

• 2008


‘Open’ Projects

• 2008

• ‘European Identity’


‘Open’ Projects

• 2008


• 28.000.000 records


‘Open’ Projects

• 2008


• 28.000.000 records

• 2600 Institutions


‘Open’ Projects

• 2008


• 28.000.000 records


• Metadata


‘Open’ Projects

• 2008


• 28.000.000 records


• Metadata

• Link to Institution



http://marijerooze.nl/projects/Europeana/



‘Open’ Projects


‘Open’ Projects

• 2013


‘Open’ Projects

• 2013

• 2.500.000 records


‘Open’ Projects

• 2013

• 2.500.000 records


• Metadata


‘Open’ Projects

• 2013

• 2.500.000 records


• Metadata

• Link to Institution


‘Open’ Projects


‘Open’ Projects

• Volunteer driven


‘Open’ Projects


• Collaboration with GLAMs


‘Open’ Projects



• 17.000.000 media files


‘Open’ Projects




• ?? Institutions


‘Open’ Projects




• ?? Institutions

• Content


‘Open’ Projects




• ?? Institutions

• Content

• Clear licensing


‘Open’ Projects


‘Open’ Projects

• 2001


‘Open’ Projects

• 2001

• Volunteers+Institutions


‘Open’ Projects

• 2001




‘Open’ Projects

• 2001



• Content


‘Open’ Projects

• 2001



• Content

• Various Licenses


Summary...


Summary...

• 30.000.000 metadata records


Summary...


• 25.000.000 open media files


Summary...



• More is coming! Less than 10% digitised at the moment


Summary...



• More is coming! Less than 10% digitised at the moment ?



• Open ‘Packages’ of data




• Find relevant links




• Find relevant links

• Tools


We should allow people to:



• Collect



• Collect

• Visualise



• Collect

• Visualise

• Annotate



• Collect

• Visualise

• Annotate

• Mashup



• Collect

• Visualise

• Annotate

• Mashup

• And much more..



Users vs. Experts



Users

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Users

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Experts



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Tools


Tools

• Timeliner

timeliner.okfnlabs.orgMonday 6 May 2013(w)

Curation


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 tells stories about your collections


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)


Thanks!

• http://openglam.org

• @OpenGLAM


Http://openglam.org

Http://openglam.org

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