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

Thu Nov 6 09:23:57 UTC 2014

Dear Marieke,

I would suggest adding all datasets listed here: http://www.opencultuurdata.nl/datasets/ <http://www.opencultuurdata.nl/datasets/>

Best,

Maarten

> Op 5 nov. 2014, om 15:11 heeft Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> 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
> Content needs to be displayed in an easy to navigate, visual way (think tag clusters!)
> 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.)
> 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
> 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
> 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
> 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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