A few metrics about Open Data in the cultural sector
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The document discusses the importance of open data and the role of Europeana as a platform for cultural heritage. Europeana aims to make cultural heritage accessible online, featuring 29 million records from various cultural institutions across Europe. Key points include the significance of high-quality metadata and open licensing to enhance discoverability and outreach for cultural institutions.
A few metrics about Open Data in the cultural sector
- 1. A few metrics about Open Data 16-09-2013, OKCon Geneva
- 2. Content Open Metadata • Licensing • Quality Open Content • Licensing • Case Study: The Science Museum in London Conclusion
- 4. Europeana’s vision and mission Europeana is a catalyst for change in the 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.
- 5. Europe’s cultural heritage portal 29m records from 2,400 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
- 7. Metadata in Europeana Description Open – CC0 Quality Image title
- 8. Metadata Quality: It’s not this…
- 9. Metadata Quality: It’s not this…
- 13. Creative Commons Zero Waiver (CC0) http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
- 15. Open Content
- 18. Science museum London 50 Images 20.000 views Per Day (!!!) Europeana gets 50.000 hits per day http://www.flickr.com/photos/sciencemuseum/sets/72157635 363091572/with/9660575567/
- 19. GLAMwiki Toolset Make batch upload to Wikimedia Commons as easy as possible Include good metadata Metrics http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAMToolset_ project
- 20. Conclusion
- 21. Conclusion Provide good quality metadata to get your material to be found Openly license to make the use of it as easy as possible Open Content can massively increase your institutions outreach – which can lead to other benefits, such as funding.
- 22. Get in touch! Joris Pekel Joris.pekel@kb.nl @jpekel
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