[OpenGLAM] Restyling the Open Collections area on the GLAM site

Wed Nov 5 14:11:21 UTC 2014

Dear All,

My name is Marieke Guy I'm a Project Co-ordinator at Open Knowledge. 
Over the next few months I will be working with Lieke on a few pieces of 
GLAM work.

One area that I'm looking in to is restyling the Open Collections area 
<http://openglam.org/open-collections/> on the GLAM site. The current 
page is too long, difficult to navigate and lacking in content.

*We'd like to see an Open Collections page with the ambition of listing 
all open GLAM collections worldwide! It should allow people to browse 
content, find what they are looking for and should concentrate on 
/really open content/. It would also be maintained by the community to 
ensure it stays current and relevant.*

After considering previous discussion on the GLAM list we've identified 
the following necessary features:

  * *Visualising the content*
      o Content needs to be displayed in an easy to navigate, visual way
        (think tag clusters!)
      o Content will tagged and there will a need for filtering and
        search options (possible tags: title, date created, date added,
        url, country, licence, data availability, content type, subject
        area etc.)
      o It would be helpful if the content could be held externally -
        e.g. in a Google spreadsheet, or at least could be batch
        uploaded (this will allow us to use current content)
  * *Extending the content*
      o There should be opportunities to include different types of
        content apart from the collections themselves e.g. lists of
        collections, blog posts about collections, information on use of
        collections
      o The community should be able to add content dependent on an
        approval process (that allows us to check content is relevant
        and open)
  * *Enhancing the content*
      o Content could be subject to a ranking system indicating levels
        of openness

Are there any key specification items missing? We have a fuller 
specification 
<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/1fj1PIU1Z9OpYNVKsDJtX7QWkDcIyYsNRNZ6n-7udKT4/edit#heading=h.g2vtga1rqaeb> 
for those interested in contributing ideas. Just add text or comments.

Can you recommend any tools that could fit the bill? We'd prefer open 
source tools that are easy to implement and can be embedded in Wordpress 
in some way.

Any suggestions people make would be hugely helpful - we'd really like 
to get the ball rolling on this!

Thanks

Marieke
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