[open-heritage] Building the Cultural Commons Meeting Notes & Actions

Thu Oct 4 17:21:52 UTC 2012

Hi Maarten,

Pardon the top posting, and thanks for updating us. Is this metrics 
project going to be focused strictly on Europe?

Just wanting to double check before I add any US examples to the list.

Thanks,

Sarah

On 10/3/12 11:40 PM, Maarten Brinkerink wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Thanks again to Sam for the great summary of actions. In this mail I 
> want to update you on one of mine:
>
>>> It's great to see that so much of what was discussed has been taken 
>>> to the list. Here is a brief summary of action points that we agred 
>>> would take to this list following the meeting:
>>>
>>>   * Maarten Briknerink to gather contributions and ideas of metrics
>>>     to measure success of open initiatives at cultural heritage
>>>     insitutions - pad for collecting ideas
>>>     <http://openglam.okfnpad.org/openheritagemetrics>[4]
>>>
>>> [4] http://openglam.okfnpad.org/openheritagemetrics
>
> I've been a bit quiet about the actions I've promised to lead (I was 
> moving to another city right after OKfest). But now I can tell you a 
> bit about how I will proceed with gathering evidence based figures and 
> developing metrics to measure the success of open initiatives in the 
> cultural heritage sector.
>
> First I will process all the comment I've gotten in the pad, thank you 
> all so much for your contributions! Then I will convert the list of 
> questions to a spreadsheet format (as on of the contributors suggested 
> in the pad). I will keep you posted on this process and will ask for 
> your feedback again at a later stage.
>
> In the meantime I would like to invite you all to keep contributing 
> potential projects and initiatives to analyze (preferably If you are 
> connected in a way that will increase the likelihood that we can 
> actually convince them to make public the required information and 
> numbers) to the above mentioned pad.
> In the Netherlands we will also organize a workshop in mid October 
> with cultural heritage professionals from the Open Cultuur Data 
> network at an upcoming hackathon to further refine the model and get 
> some people to sign up to actually measuring their 
> projects/initiatives and making these figures public.
>
> Looking forward to your input and responses!
>
> Best,
>
> Maarten
>
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