[OpenGLAM] Renewed Open Collections page

Fri Jun 12 12:48:24 UTC 2015

HI Lieke, 

nice initiative. one remark: one of the collections you are featuring is Europeana which can hardly be called an open collection according to the criteria in your mail. More than half of all objects available via Europeana are not available under open licenses, so i don't think that Europeana should be featured on this list. (my colleagues at Europeana will probably hate me for this).

I think by calling Europeana an open collection you are disincentivising organizations who make their non open collections available to go open as they can simply claim that they are doing the open thing since they are part of Europeana which is an open collection. I think a much better approach would be to highlight those collections in europeana that are open as individual collections. Europeana's filtering tools make it easy to identify collections that meet the criteria of en open collection. 

best, Paul 

> On 12 Jun 2015, at 14:18, Lieke Ploeger <lieke.ploeger at okfn.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> We are happy to now widely share and announce our renewed Open Collections page on the OpenGLAM blog at http://openglam.org/2015/06/11/openglam-open-collections.
> 
> Our OpenGLAM Open Collections page, we provide a global and curated overview of open cultural content online. Over the last months, we have completed a restyle of the page: it is now delivered through the wonderful Omeka software platform. This means you easily search, locate collections on a map, comment on or tag collections. Searching by tag allows you to quickly look for material that fits your purpose. You can either visit the page through the OpenGLAM site at http://openglam.org/open-collections/, or directly through http://open-collections.okfn.org/.
> 
> When we call these collections open, we mean they are licensed in a way that is compliant with the Open Definition. Popular ones for data include CC-0 and for content CC-BY or CC-BY-SA are often used. A part of the collections fully meet our OpenGLAM principles, for example by keeping works for which copyright has expired in the public domain by not adding new rights to them. These collections have been awarded the OpenGLAM Badge of Approval (see http://open-collections.okfn.org/exhibits/show/open/badge).
> 
> Currently we have 53 open collections and 9 lists of open collections in our database. We’re quite sure that there is a lot more open collections out there, and we would love to add them with your help. If you know of an open collection that should be in here, you can sign up for our Omeka platform through this link, and then fill in the form on the Contribute page for your open collection to be added. Many thanks for your help!
> 
> Best regards, 
> 
> Lieke Ploeger.
> 
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