[OpenGLAM] Renewed Open Collections page

Fri Jun 12 12:58:12 UTC 2015

Hi Lieke (and thanks for clarifying this PaulŠ)

We have listed some nice open collections on Europeana on our Labs pages:
http://labs.europeana.eu/data/

Cheers, 
Harry

On 12/06/2015 14:48, "Paul Keller" <pk at kl.nl> wrote:

>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 
>
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>> 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. We¹re 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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