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

Mon Nov 10 14:34:03 UTC 2014

Great stuff, then let's pick a date.
I have set up a Doodle to fill in. Everybody on this list who is interested
in joining the discussion, feel free to do so!

http://doodle.com/cwrgfzrmxd7fz3py

All the best,

Joris

2014-11-10 15:00 GMT+01:00 Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org>:

>  This is an amazing list Maarten and just the type of thing we'd like to
> have included somehow on the Open Collections page. Be great to talk in the
> meeting about ways to do this.
>
> Thanks
>
> Marieke
>
>
>
>
> On 10/11/2014 13:09, Maarten Zeinstra wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>  I always like to play with the Europeana API when I see these kinds of
> questions.
>
>  I made a simple overview of all collections on Europeana that are
> completely open (where all objects are either PDM, CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA),
> there are exactly 100 of the 746 data providers on Europeana that qualify
> for this. You can find them in an overview here:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10c8JT1-lQbuMFwRs61-q3TQUJOdi-jyQWOMuHJFCMs0/edit?usp=sharing
>
>  When you want to check out a collection simply copy the content of a
> cell in the first column and replace <REPLACE ME> in the URL:
> http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=DATA_PROVIDER%3A%22<REPLACE
> ME>%22
>
>  Good promoting all these collections!
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Maarten Zeinstra
>
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>  On 10 Nov 2014, at 11:57 , Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org> wrote:
>
> Thanks Joris,
>
> Good point! I would see the aggregators indicated through tags - so people
> can filter to see only the collections themselves or see aggregators or
> even all resources available. i.e. the top level of an aggregator would be
> just another item in the database. But maybe other people have different
> ideas on how we could do this? Possibly through harvesting APIs? My
> technical skills let me down here!
>
> So while I say the page would have the *ambition of listing all open GLAM
> collections worldwide*, in reality this would be through links, rather
> than through replication of work.
>
> Dedicating the next OpenGLAM members call at the end of the month to this
> topic would be great if people are OK with that. Yes please!!
>
> As for tools, I plan to take a look at any suggested just so I can get an
> idea of what is possible using currently available tools. Developing
> something new is likely to be out of scope but if we use open source we may
> be able to build on existing software.
>
> Marieke
>
>  On 10/11/2014 10:23, Joris Pekel wrote:
>
> 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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