[Openglam_members] Open Collections call

Fri Nov 28 02:39:30 UTC 2014

Hi all

Great to hear about the development of the open collections page.

I have a partial page of New Zealand and international collections started here: http://digitalnz.org/schools/createremix/reusable-content. This is in desperate need of an update though, but I'm happy to refine this and contribute the NZ collections to the collections page as it develops.

I was also wondering if it would be helpful for us to have a licensing glossary of some kind? The term 'public domain' isn't used very much in NZ, particularly amongst government departments, due to legal reasons and the directives of NZGOAL<https://ict.govt.nz/guidance-and-resources/open-government/new-zealand-government-open-access-and-licensing-nzgoal-framework/>, our government's open access policy. Government departments most often use 'no know copyright restrictions'. I wonder if some resource as part of the open collections page to explain these terms would be useful?

As an aside, I've just emerged this week from our National Digital Forum<http://www.ndf.org.nz/> conference, where a number of issues related to OpenGLAM were discussed. In particular, two sessions, one from Te Papa (our national museum) about their image release earlier this year (slide deck here<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MG4NNK5erzYJ9q5QD_qpZsDAlmRmyGG_XNV3CQFyhWQ/edit?pli=1#slide=id.p>), and one cross-institutional panel discussion, 'Open GLAM progress in New Zealand'. The videos of every session are being released over the next couple of weeks, follow @NDFNZ<https://twitter.com/NDFNZ> for updates. I'll also send them around the Open GLAM list when they come up too.

Thanks
Thomasin

From: openglam_members [mailto:openglam_members-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Marieke Guy
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Enjoyed the discussion - lots to take on board. One thing I'm picking up is that there is a real need to surface open collections and related case studies beyond Wikicommons.

I'll note this as +1 for the OpenGLAM open collections area. I'll share my Omeka progress with you soon.

Thanks

Marieke

On 25/11/2014 20:02, Sarah Stierch wrote:
Gah..just realizing the first GLAMcamp was in 2011. So not quite five years yet.

I still want to do a camp though :)

-Sar

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch at gmail.com<mailto:sarah.stierch at gmail.com>> wrote:
Yes! Just a basic non-formal survey shows this too on my end - I don't get buy-in from Executive Directors, board members (here in the US non-profits are basically ran by the board) and tough-to-persuade curators/archivists/etc without formal evaluations. And yes, it's not an open collection list - we just need to think of how we can persuade people to do it and make it easy for them.. .

I'll park it in the parking lot for something to work on in the future. GLAMcamp would celebrate the 5th anniversary of the first GLAMcamp in NYC. I'd love to have it in the USA (despite how much I love visiting ya'll in Europe) as the USA desperately needs more events and programs, and it would bring together the original crew and a mix of newish folks (like you) to talk, hack, celebrate and share amongst ourselves and the public. The first GLAMcamp changed my life :)

I need to start brainstorming that... it would be in late spring early summer.

-Sarah

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Dorota Laura Kawęcka <laura.cof at gmail.com<mailto:laura.cof at gmail.com>> wrote:
I would love to get (or give) a case study toolbox! Our research shows (do I already sound like an American scientist?) that glams really crave for case studies more than for manuals. But this is of course something else than open collections list (I think).
GLAMcamp sounds great!

D.

2014-11-25 19:32 GMT+01:00 Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch at gmail.com<mailto:sarah.stierch at gmail.com>>:
Thank you Dorota for the notes! I really appreciate that. I'll take a look at them.

I'm a case study fanatic. As one of the few Wikimedians (or, American Wikimedians) who actually writes them. I have been lucky to use the OpenGLAM blog as a platform to share them, specifically the Walters Art Museum case study. I'm excited to say I'm working on updating it with Walters staff, so we can explore things further.[1]

Those of us involved in the GLAM-Wiki community have done our best to make the GLAM-Wiki portal somewhat digestible for non-Wiki people, but it's challenging given the limitations in the platform for design. You can see the case studies developed (even though the majority aren't complete or "proper" case studies) here:

https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Case_studies

I desperately want to see more case studies and find ways to surface this information and weed out the "faux case studies" and incomplete efforts. I wish there was a case study toolbox, where we could provide institutions and those involved in their programs the tools and tips on how to develop a case study. But, I can only do so much :) (But, this is why I want to plan a GLAMcamp for 2015 so we can all hack out these things..)

More accessibility = more buy-in! :)

Sarah

[1] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Case_studies/Walters_Art_Museum

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Dorota Laura Kawęcka <laura.cof at gmail.com<mailto:laura.cof at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Sarah,

you will find notes from today's call here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yCJUVrTsbnSenuQA0tGQ0rugEwitlyiwATJbIrJpQEs/edit?usp=drive_web

I agree that it's hard to find something if you don't know where to look (not sure how wiki commons rank in google results). From our research project on openness in culture sector we also know that people don't know about wiki commons or creative commons case studies sites and this is why a neat, simple presentation of open collections is something we need. As an open glam advocate in Poland I would find it very very useful.

best,

Dorota

2014-11-25 19:11 GMT+01:00 Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch at gmail.com<mailto:sarah.stierch at gmail.com>>:
Hi all -

It was 6 AM my time when the call happened, so alas, I had to miss out.

Regardless, yes! These collections absolutely fall under the Open Collections and it would be great to see them featured someplace other than Commons - as many of us know, content usually gets buried in the wasteland of searching and wikiness on Commons and are rarely seen outside their wild Commons habitat.

So any way to expose those collections would be great!

-Sarah

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Estermann Beat <beat.estermann at bfh.ch<mailto:beat.estermann at bfh.ch>> wrote:
Dear all,

Regarding today's discussion about Wikimedia Commons.

Here is a list of content partnerships:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Partnerships
These collections would probably all qualify for inclusion on the Open Collections Page, right?

And here is the list of (partly upcoming) uploads to Commons using the GLAM-Wiki Toolset:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GWToolset_users
Once they are uploaded, these collections would probably also qualify for inclusion on the Open Collections Page.

As mentioned during our call, I think we should keep track which of the Open Collections on display on the OpenGLAM Open Collections Page have already been uploaded to Commons (and probably also vice versa).

Cheers,
Beat

From: openglam_members [mailto:openglam_members-bounces at lists.okfn.org<mailto:openglam_members-bounces at lists.okfn.org>] On Behalf Of Joris Pekel
Sent: Dienstag, 25. November 2014 15:27
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Subject: Re: [Openglam_members] Open Collections call

Hi everyone,

Here is the link. Speak to you in a sec.
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/g6why7onjohmzlvk2kd6vlrbuma

Cheers,

Joris

2014-11-24 16:37 GMT+01:00 Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch at gmail.com<mailto:sarah.stierch at gmail.com>>:

Sadly I will still be sleeping! Ah well.

Sarah
On Nov 24, 2014 12:30 AM, "Joris Pekel" <jpekel at gmail.com<mailto:jpekel at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi all,

Thanks for filling in the Doodle.
Tomorrow at 15:00 CET seems to work for most people. Is that still the case?

If so, looking forward speaking to you tomorrow about the Open Collections! I'll send around the hangout link 5 minutes beforehand.

Cheers,

Joris

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