Getting Ready for the OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey17 July 2014 – OKFest, Berlin

▶ Bern University of Applied Sciences | E-Government Institute || Open Knowledge | OpenGLAM Working Group

Alte Nationalgalerie (Berlin), Wikimedia Commons, Thomas Wolf, CC-by-sa

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▶ Introduction to the OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey project Beat Estermann

▶ Getting a maximum out of the survey• The Netherlands

Joris Pekel• Finland

Laura Sillanpää• India

Subhasish Panigrahi

▶ Discussion and Questions & AnswersModeration: Lieke Ploeger

Welcome!

Introduction to the OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey Project

▶ Online survey conducted among heritage institutions throughout the world in the second half of 2014.

▶ Focusing on questions related to digitization, exchange of metadata, open data/open content, semantic web, social media, crowdsourcing

▶ Inspired by an earlier pilot survey, carried out in Switzerland in 2012

▶ Organized in a federative manner, which means that the organization depends on volunteers and partners in each country

What is the OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey about?

▶ Measure the state of advancement of OpenGLAM in the participating countries

▶ Inform the GLAM community about the latest developments in the area of OpenGLAM

▶ Identify potential partners for open data and/or crowdsourcing projects

▶ Use the study report as a communication instrument to promote OpenGLAM

▶ Use the study report as an instrument for lobbying activities in favour of OpenGLAM and the advancement of free knowledge

▶ Provide international comparisons:• Allowing each country to see where it stands compared to other

countries. • Provide the international OpenGLAM community with a tool that helps it

better understand the particularities of each country

What do we want to achieve?

Overview of participating countries

Further countries are welcome to join!

Overview: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/OpenGLAM_Benchmark_Survey/Participating_countries

Participation status (as of 17 July 2014)Green: committedYellow: awaiting confirmation

Underlying graphic file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BlankMap-World-v2.png Roke et al. (CC-by-sa)

▶ Join one of the national teams or set-up your own!

▶ Main tasks at the national level:• Ensure the translation of the questionnaire into your national

language(s)• Gather e-mail contacts of the heritage institutions in your

country• Answer questions during the adminstration of the questionnaire

▶ Optional:• Promote the survey results in your country• Carry out country-specific analyses of the survey data• Promote OpenGLAM in your country

How can you contribute?

Getting a maximum out of the survey• The Netherlands• Finland• India

The Netherlands

George Hendrik Breitner - De Singelbrug bij de Paleisstraat. Rijksmuseum (Public Domain)

▶ OpenCultuurData.nl▶ NL Wikimedia chapter has (payed) GLAMwiki coordinator▶ Largest provider of open images in Europeana▶ Number of international key players such as the Rijksmuseum,

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and the National Library▶ Open culture initiatives get some funding from the ministry of

culture▶ Very often one department very active, the other one not at all. ▶ Smaller and mid-size institutions getting more interest in opening

their collections, lots of questions about how to best do this

OpenGLAM in the Netherlands

▶ What do we want to get out of this survey?▶ Data! ▶ Mapping the sector▶ Encourage institutions to think about their digital strategy▶ Go beyond „The usual suspects“

▶ What we have done so far:▶ Help develop the survey questions▶ Pre-test with a number of institutions▶ People contacted very enthousiastic▶ Difficulty with getting contact details. Mostly our own networks

Implementing the OpenGLAM Survey in the Netherlands

▶ How to reach the people that are not in some way thinking about opening up their colllections already, should we?

▶ What to do if the museum associations etc. are not willing to share their contacts/the survey?

▶ What would be a minimum number of respondents to make it useful?

Questions

▶ The Finnish context:▶ Digitisation of cultural objects increased substantially after 2008:

The Ministry of Education and Culture’s discretionary funding▶ Finland still behind many European countries in terms of open

cultural data and related aspects of openness

▶ Open cultural data master course in 2014 by Open Knowledge Finland

▶ Local objectives for OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey▶ Help spread awareness of open culture and cultural data in general▶ Map the actual situation in relation to open cultural data & learn

what is needed▶ Compare the Finnish situation with those of other countries and

learn from good practices

Finland

http://avoinglam.fi https://twitter.com/avoinglam https://www.flickr.com/avoinglam

India

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India

▶ Wikimedia India chapter and WMF's India program worked together for India's first GLAM project

▶ Good traction of image contribution during the Wiki Loves Monument photo contest

▶ Mass communication and other media institutions slowly taking interst in open audio library

▶ OpenGLAM initiatives related to digitization could get support from the government as digitization is a priority across departments

▶ Majority of GLAM institutions lack knowledge about open culture, need for outreach

▶ Relicensing and book digitization have gained public interest

▶ What do we want to get out of this survey?▶ Data!▶ Mapping the sector▶ Encourage institutions to think about their digital strategy▶ Show institutions "what is there for them“

▶ What we have done so far:▶ Started filing Right to Information (RT) asking the state

government departments for lists of institutions▶ Reached out to WMIN seeking help for creating a list▶ Difficulty with getting people and contact details

Implementing the OpenGLAM Survey in India

▶ What to do if the museum associations etc. are not willing to share their contacts/the survey?

▶ What would be a minimum number of respondents to make it useful?

Questions

DiscussionQuestions & Answers

▶ Contact Details:• Beat Estermann

E-mail: beat.estermann@bfh.chPhone: +41 31 848 34 38

• Lieke PloegerE-mail: lieke.ploeger@okfn.org

▶ Project Portal:• http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/

OpenGLAM_Benchmark_Survey

Thank you for your participation!