[OpenGLAM] CC0 metadata from American art museums [was: Minneapolis Institute of Arts release metadata CC0]

Wed Oct 22 13:59:20 UTC 2014

Hi Sarah,

The Yale Center for British Art (2,200 paintings, 200 sculptures, 50,000 works on paper, 35,000 rare books & manuscripts, and 30,000 reference library and archive materials) is another example of museums releasing their metadata for global dissemination.  

While we have not specified a particular license, the Center is committed to Open Access and has been making its collection information available since 2013 as well.  

This is the page describing how we are using technology to advance the study of our collections by allowing unrestricted access to our entire holdings online to as broad a public as possible: http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-collections/online-collections.  

Our metadata is available as LIDO XML and CIDOC-CRM RDF individual files (at the end of each record) or as the entire collection data set from our OAI-PMH data provider: http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-collections/technology/harvest-xml-data and from our SPARQL endpoint: http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-collections/technology/linked-open-data

Best,

Emmanuelle

Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass
Collections Data Manager
Collections Information & Access Department
Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
203-410-4069

-----Original Message-----
From: open-glam [mailto:open-glam-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Rob Lancefield on lists
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2014 2:45 PM
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Subject: Re: [OpenGLAM] CC0 metadata from American art museums [was: Minneapolis Institute of Arts release metadata CC0]

Hi Sarah and all,

I can guess why it passed by you: we never really announced it! It's been in kind of a soft-launch mode until, well, today. This OpenGLAM thread seemed like a good place to start spreading word more actively.

I should also mention that while our policies have been in place for a while now, much of our implementation of DAC Collection Search and LIDO metadata will remain in iterative public beta for some time; so if and as anyone here tries them out and bumps into any issues, please do let me know offlist (rlancefield[at]wesleyan.edu). I'm always grateful to learn about things I need to add to my to-fix lists for both resources.

cheers,
Rob

Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu  |  tel. 860.685.2965

On 10/20/14 2:29 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote:
> Awesome! Great to hear - not sure how this passed by me and I am sorry 
> I did not know thank you for sharing this!
>
> Sarah
>
> On Oct 20, 2014 10:09 AM, "Rob Lancefield on lists"
> <lists at lancefield.net <mailto:lists at lancefield.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Sarah and all,
>
>     As a small-museum example, metadata from the Davison Art Center at
>     Wesleyan University has been CC0 since 10/2/2013. The DAC collection
>     consists chiefly of 18,000 prints and 6,000 photographs, with
>     strongest holdings in European and American prints. So, hey: CC0
>     "back" in 2013 from a U.S. art museum, albeit a tiny one nested
>     within a university. ...
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