[open-heritage] Open data from cultural heritage organisations?

Sat Nov 20 17:05:29 UTC 2010

Heya Jonathan...

Deffo up for helping out assemble the list... Mia is the person to ask
on the museums API front, and I'll happily do a spot on the open mic
next friday asking for datasets and/or opinions.

One of the things thats always interested me a bit (We should do a
conf call again soon :)) is the OKFN's obsession with big data files.
CultureGrid is entirely downloadable, just not as massive data files,
providing an OAI interface instead. There seems to be some resistance
in OKFN to anything other than data files as a means for distributing
content? I've been minded to write an OAI -> Datafile service, but it
feels a bit icky somehow. Is there a resistance to OAI or is it just
not well enough understood?

In terms of the license - It's difficult because the data belongs to
the providers not the aggregator. I think Nick Poole was taking an
interest in the licensing issue, it's something we should re-visit.

Ian.

On 20 November 2010 16:53, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm wondering if anyone can point me to:
>
>  (i) any fully open (as in opendefinition.org) datasets from cultural
> heritage organisations?
>  (ii) any people who are interested in (i)?
>
> Regarding (i), I'd be grateful if anyone could either email links to
> this thread or add things to CKAN, e.g. tagged 'culturalheritage' [1].
>
> Regarding (ii), I'd be grateful for any suggestions or introductions
> off list, so that I can try and invite people here. (Ian: perhaps
> you'd be up for helping me to do this?) E.g. does anyone know folks
> from:
>
> http://museum3.org/group/linkeddata
> http://museum-api.pbworks.com/
>
> I've just been looking at the Culture Grid data [2], but I'm still not
> clear whether there is currently any data available for download in
> bulk and whether *anything* there is available under an open license
> [3]. If there is anything under an open license, I'd be very
> interested in seeing if we can mirror/extract this open segment and
> make it available for download in bulk.
>
> [1] http://ckan.net/tag/culturalheritage
> [2] http://ckan.net/package/culturegrid
> [3] E.g. http://www.collectionstrust.org.uk/copy-stat
>
>
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