[OpenGLAM] Open Gallery by Google

Thu Dec 12 18:08:04 UTC 2013

This all hearkens back to a thread awhile ago about calling out (using a
term I can't remember, like 'openwashing') projects which weren't Open Def
compliant or even open Def friendly.

My suggestion at the time was to institute a kind of regular award or
certification specifically to be given, with as much press as could be
mustered, to projects that did.  I.e., not wasting too much time on the
negative cases, but richly calling attention to and rewarding (however
possible) the best cases.

So yes, I definitely meant rewarding projects which were actually in fact
strengthening the meaning of 'open' (or Libre, as many prefer) rather than
weakening it as this Google project (potentially) could.

An organization as large as the OKF could really become a leader in such an
effort.  But, all I can do here is rabble-rouse...  :)  Er, advocate.  :)

- Heath

On Thursday, December 12, 2013, Sebastiaan ter Burg wrote:

> That would be great Ben.
> Dorota and Joris: thank you sharing the links.
>
> I'll be following this from the sideline...
>
> Best,
>
> Sebastiaan
>
>
> 2013/12/12 Ben Laurie <ben at links.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'ben at links.org');>>
>
>> On 11 December 2013 13:23, Joris Pekel <jpekel at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'jpekel at gmail.com');>>
>> wrote:
>> > Yeah it is a question that is on my mind as well. Last week there was in
>> > interview in the Guardian with Amid Sood, head of the Google cultural
>> > institute. A very hyping article and they addressed the rights in a
>> > paragraph saying:
>> >
>> > "The final thing was the rights. Essentially, who owns the rights? We
>> worked
>> > really hard with our legal teams and the museums so that we could say to
>> > them: you will always own the rights and you have the right to take down
>> > content at any time. Once you cross those perceptual, legal barriers,
>> that's
>> > when it gets interesting; that's when the excitement begins."
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2013/dec/03/amit-sood-google-cultural-institute-art-project
>> >
>> > Would be good to have a more in depth chat with him about this :)
>> Anybody
>> > happens to have his contact details?
>>
>> I work for Google. I could ask if he'd like to chat, if you want. In
>> fact, I'm doing so now.
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