[OpenGLAM] Fwd: Smithsonian data available for National Day of Civic Hacking!

Wed Jun 4 08:48:10 UTC 2014

Hi Joris,

The first point I was trying to make was that the directory should be editable by people who have collections to add so we can crowdsource that task.
At present, it seems not to be working, as the people having access to the document are actually not making the effort to add new stuff as it comes up.

The second point I was trying to make was that the directory should be machine-readable for anyone out there on the Internet (publish it as open data).

And in the longer run we should think about how the directory fits into the larger landscape of open data / open content platforms. Some GLAMs already publish their datasets on a national CKAN-instance. – Ideally, the metadata for these datasets would be harvested and not copied-pasted manually. I am also not sure to what extent we are doubling the efforts of Europeana here. I guess we could think of the OpenGLAM directory of open collections as the pipeline for ingestion into Europeana and Wikimedia Commons.

Apart from that, it would be a useful tool for the preparation of Open Cultural Data Hackathons, and the added value compared to Europeana, Wikimedia Commons or existing open data platforms would be that we could also link to applications that have been developed to make use of that data.

The USP of the directory could be that:

-       it has the ambition to list all open GLAM collections worldwide

-       it provides information about applications making use of these open GLAM collections

-       it provides a tracking system showing which collections are also available within Wikimedia Commons and/or Europeana, DPLA, or similar

Furthermore, we could think about how further to support Open Cultural Data Hackathons at an international level.

My 2 cents,

Beat

From: joris.pekel at gmail.com [mailto:joris.pekel at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Joris Pekel
Sent: Mittwoch, 4. Juni 2014 10:04
To: Sarah Stierch
Cc: Estermann Beat; open-glam at lists.okfn.org
Subject: Re: [OpenGLAM] Fwd: Smithsonian data available for National Day of Civic Hacking!

I am also not a great fan of a wiki. We are using Lisitify at the moment which nicely displays information directly from a spreadsheet. See: http://openglam.org/open-collections/

With the list growing it gets a bit messy though. I can have a look how to display this more nicely.

Perhaps a nice Whit Monday exercise? :)

Cheers,

Joris

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch at gmail.com<mailto:sarah.stierch at gmail.com>> wrote:
I suggest we avoid a "wiki" to display it though.

I would rather see a nice easily discoverable non-wiki webpage.

I thought we already had a page for this via openglam? Or perhaps I am just that out of it due to having been out of the scene for a year :)

Sarah

On Jun 3, 2014, at 12:15 AM, Estermann Beat <beat.estermann at bfh.ch<mailto:beat.estermann at bfh.ch>> wrote:
Hi, Joris.

You are absolutely right, there have been many announcements about newly opened collections over the past months.

I like the idea of having a hub where all the Open Collections are listed. However, I think, it would be good to have an editable list (maybe on a wiki, based on a template, in order for it to be machine-readable).

Maybe in cooperation with the Wikimedia Commons community? – The following pages could be starting points for this, although I guess we should give it some extra thought how best to present the open collections:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Free_media_resources
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Batch_uploading

Cheers,
Beat

From: open-glam [mailto:open-glam-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Joris Pekel

Sent: Montag, 2. Juni 2014 09:41
To: open-glam at lists.okfn.org<mailto:open-glam at lists.okfn.org>
Subject: Re: [OpenGLAM] Fwd: Smithsonian data available for National Day of Civic Hacking!

Cool! Thanks for sharing.
I've recently seen quite some sets being made available openly. We should probably do an update on the Open Collections page on the OpenGLAM.org<http://OpenGLAM.org> website. http://openglam.org/open-collections/
Is anybody interested in helping out? Adding the sets is really easy using the listify tool, just add the info to a spreadsheet.
Let me know and we can set a time/date.

Cheers,

Joris

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Sarah Stierch <sarah at sarahstierch.com<mailto:sarah at sarahstierch.com>> wrote:
Please see below!

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From: Vicki Portway <portwayv at gmail.com<mailto:portwayv at gmail.com>>
Subject: Smithsonian data available for National Day of Civic Hacking!

Posting on behalf of Diego Mayer-Cantu, Smithsonian Presidential Innovation
Fellow

Dear Smithsonian Data aficionados,

I am pleased to announce the Cooper-Hewitt, Freer-Sackler, and SI Archives
have made their already-public collections metadata available for the
National Day of Civic Hacking -- a nationwide hackathon with thousands of
participants, and hundreds of events -- happening this weekend. We're
inviting our technologically-inclined enthusiasts to help us think about
some of the Smithsonian's most pressing digital challenges, and maybe even
prototype some interesting, open-source solutions!

More information on the National Day of Civic Hacking:
http://hackforchange.org
Twitter: @civichackingday
Hashtag: #hackforchange

A nice article on the NDoCH:
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/may/29/white-house-and-nasa-gear-up-for-national-day-of-civic-hacking

Thanks,
-- Diego

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