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

Wed Nov 12 16:24:17 UTC 2014

Hi all,

Really cool to see this.
Quickly wanted to make note about the 2M PD objects from the BNF. Although
they label them as such, they are actually restricted from some form of
re-use. Their terms of use mention: "Commercial re-use of this content is
not free and is subject to a license. Is heard by commercial reuse resale
of content in the form of processed products or service delivery."

See:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/html/conditions-dutilisation-des-contenus-de-gallica

They use a law from the 70's to achieve that. So where they say it is
'open', this collection would definitely not fit the criteria to become an
open collection - unfortunately. Would be great if we could find a way to
convince them to drop this restriction!

Cheers,

Joris

On 11 November 2014 16:26, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

>   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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