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

Mon Nov 10 10:23:55 UTC 2014

Hi everybody,

Really nice to see this is taken forward, and well needed.
What I think is good to keep in mind is that we are basically discussion
two types of 'Open Collections'.
One is an institution that offers their own collection under an open
license or PD mark. The other is 'aggregators' of open collections such as
Open Cultuur Data, the PD review, Europeana Labs, and perhaps even entire
Europeana can be considered an Open Collection if you use the right
filters.

Before we go into software, I think we should discuss some of these basics
and how we want to deal with it. I for example do not think it is feasible
and useful if we go into these aggregators and pick out the open
collections to copy to the OpenGLAM site. Sounds like duplication of work
which is too much for a volunteer led effort (but maybe I am wrong here).

To go forward with this, shall we schedule a Skype/Hangout meeting with the
people interested? Perhaps we can dedicate the next OpenGLAM members call
at the end of the month to this topic?

Cheers,

Joris

2014-11-06 10:48 GMT+01:00 Adam Green <adam.green at publicdomainreview.org>:

> Hi,
>
> I think this looks like a great plan! In terms of finding extra GLAMs you
> might find this "Sources" page at The Public Domain Review useful - though
> I actually also need to badly update this myself!
> http://publicdomainreview.org/sources/ There's lots of newly opened
> collection not listed on there such as Harvard, Qatar Digital LIbrary and
> more...
>
>
>
>
>
> All the best,
>
>
> Adam.
>
>
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> On 6 November 2014 09:36, Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>>  Thanks for the dataset ideas Barbara and Maarten. If anyone else has any
>> more suggestions for resources that should be included then just add them
>> in - I've added a separate heading in the document
>> <https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/1fj1PIU1Z9OpYNVKsDJtX7QWkDcIyYsNRNZ6n-7udKT4/edit#heading=h.ol2im0qlwtut>
>> .
>>
>> Also possible tools for us to look at would be much appreciated!!
>>
>> Marieke
>>
>> On 06/11/2014 09:27, Barbara Dierickx wrote:
>>
>> Hi Marieke,
>>
>>  And also its Flemish counterpart http://opencultuurdata.be/datasets/
>>
>>
>>  Thanks!
>> b.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2014-11-06 10:23 GMT+01:00 Maarten Brinkerink <
>> mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl>:
>>
>>> Dear Marieke,
>>>
>>>  I would suggest adding all datasets listed here:
>>> 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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