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

Tue Nov 11 15:26:26 UTC 2014

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Maarten Zeinstra <mz at kl.nl> wrote:

>
> 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
>

Cool!

> 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
>

That sounds like the kind of menial task that computers are good at, so I
added a column to the spreadsheet with the URL in it:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nA2-fEU_BQ41Kuq59oAPxm6H6mOpOMHhi3zvRalR8d0/edit?usp=sharing

It's worth reviewing the actual numbers and collections rather than just
depending on the color coding because the top three non-green entries have
only one or two non-free works each and would be in the top ten free
collections without that work.

Europeana 1914-1918
<http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=DATA_PROVIDER%3A%22Europeana+1914-1918%22>
has
145,000 free digital objects, but for some reason decided to reserve rights
to four paragraphs describing the overall exhibit.
Riksantikvarieämbetet
<http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=DATA_PROVIDER%3A%22Riksantikvarie%C3%A4mbetet%22>
has
130,000 free digital objects and the single CC-BY-ND listing
<http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/91622/raa_kmb_16000200132729.html?start=1&query=DATA_PROVIDER%3A%22Riksantikvarie%C3%A4mbetet%22&startPage=1&qf=RIGHTS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fcreativecommons.org%2Flicenses%2Fby-nd%2F*&rows=24>
in Europeana is apparently an error, because when you click through to the
original it's marked PD
<http://kmb.raa.se/cocoon/bild/show-image.html?id=16000200132729>
Rijksmuseum
<http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=DATA_PROVIDER%3A%22Rijksmuseum%22>
has
180,000 free digital objects and the two

Even institutions with larger numbers of non-free works are worth a look.
Although BNF has over 45,000 works with rights reserved, it has *more than
2 million* public domain works.  Do we really want to ignore those two
million works or criticize them for only achieving 98% freedom for their
collection?

I sorted my copy of the spreadsheet by total number of free works to give
slightly different view of who's doing the most good (but both percentages
and absolute numbers are useful metrics).

Tom
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