[Openglam_members] OpenGLAM working group (+ job at Europeana)

Tue Mar 21 14:12:53 UTC 2017

Thanks a lot Beat, that makes sense.

Before go offline for a while, is there maybe somebody interested in
running the OpenGLAM twitter account? It still attracts a lot of following,
but me and Lieke have not been very active using it recently. Let me know
and I can send you the login details.

Cheers, and speak soon!

Joris

2017-03-04 15:43 GMT+01:00 Estermann Beat <beat.estermann at bfh.ch>:

> Dear Joris, dear all,
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> Thanks for raising these questions, Joris.
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> I see several areas, where international coordination and/or exchange is
> or has been useful:
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> 1)      The OpenGLAM Principles: The OpenGLAM principles are an important
> reference for the propagation of OpenGLAM. In the medium term, we should
> start thinking about how the OpenGLAM principles should evolve in the
> future. For this, we need some kind of international OpenGLAM community.
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> 2)      Exchange of best practices with regard to outreach to heritage
> institutions and promotion of OpenGLAM: Personally, I have found that very
> useful in the build-up phase of activities in my own country. Right now, I
> would probably rather be on the “giving” end, but if there is no one on the
> “receiving” end, there is not much use to the exchange. Also, I think if we
> want to further grow the international OpenGLAM community to include
> further countries, we would need to organize meet-ups with face-to-face
> encounters. Thus, we would require funding, both for the organization of
> the meet-ups (possibly not that much if it can be organized in connection
> with an existing conference or hackathon) and to cover travel expenses of
> volunteers. – I guess, the impulse for such international propagation of
> OpenGLAM would need to come from one of the existing organizations (Open
> Knowledge, Europeana, Wikimedia, CreativeCommons, …) – so far, I haven’t
> seen this happening and I don’t see how this will change in the near future
> unless one of us takes the initiative and looks for funding.
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> 3)      OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey: After the initial phase where many
> countries joined within a short period of time, right now I’m adding about
> one country per year to the survey. This means that it makes sense to bring
> this first phase of the survey to a close. Maybe I will try to look for
> funding options for a second phase (either the same survey for more
> countries, but with a central funding mechanism, or a follow-up survey,
> possibly with a different questionnaire). But here again, without
> substantial funding, this is not going to happen.
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> 4)      Exchange of best practices in the area of GLAM-Wiki cooperation:
> This happens through Wikimedia-channels and events.
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> 5)      Exchange of best practices and common development of data models
> in the area of linked data: For this, there is the LODLAM community and the
> LODLAM summit. All major international umbrella organizations (ICOM, IFLA,
> ICA) and Europeana are engaged in this area.
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> 6)      Creation of an international database of heritage data in the
> context of Wikidata (also available as linked data through a SPARQL
> endpoint). I’ve started to focus energy on this area in the course of the
> last year, and I think it is an area that we will see evolving quite a lot
> over the next couple of years (see for example: Wikidata:WikiProject
> Heritage institutions
> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Heritage_institutions>).
> From my point of view, the topic of Wikidata+GLAM is strongly related to
> 4) and 5) and can eventually be dealt with within the corresponding
> communities.
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> Regarding your second question: As long as there is someone to administer
> and moderate the mailing lists and as long as there is a contact person for
> enquiries from the outside (e.g. new members who want to join the
> international working group), we can leave everything as it is now. Don’t
> worry too much if the community is slowly dying; if someone sees a need to
> revive it, it won’t be too hard to do it.
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> Cheers,
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> Beat
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> *From:* openglam_members [mailto:openglam_members-bounces at lists.okfn.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Joris Pekel
> *Sent:* Freitag, 3. März 2017 08:56
> *To:* <openglam_members at lists.okfn.org>
> *Subject:* [Openglam_members] OpenGLAM working group (+ job at Europeana)
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> Hi all,
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> Hope you are all doing great.
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> We haven't really spoken for a while which is too bad, but I am sure we
> all have been active doing important stuff :). The reason I am contacting
> you again is because I'd like to discuss the future of the OpenGLAM working
> group with you. The group has been largely dormant for the past year and
> even though many OpenGLAM activities have been set up and organised, it has
> been without this particular group.
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> Direct reason for contacting you is because from the 1st of April I will
> be leaving Europeana to travel the world for a bit. I expect to be gone for
> about a year, but who knows. I was therefore wondering what you as some of
> the founding members think we should do with the group? I am also asking
> this because the OKFN no longer has GLAM as a priority. Lieke was able to
> do some (paid) work on GLAM stuff last year but that is now over and I
> don't think there are any other GLAM related projects running at the moment
> (correct me if I'm wrong). The last blogpost on OpenGLAM.org is from over a
> year ago.
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> At the same time there is a mailing list with a couple of hundred people
> interested in OpenGLAM and a twitter account with nearly 5000 followers.
> And as said before a lot of people talk about OpenGLAM stuff, but just not
> on the OpenGLAM.org channels.
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> So my questions basically are:
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> - Do you think it is still worth it to keep the OpenGLAM working group, if
> so, how should it go forward?
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> - Does it make sense to keep the working group within the OKFN? Is there
> an organisation where it would better sit, or is it not really a relevant
> question as the website is currently hosted there and it is fine like that?
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> Looking forward hearing your thoughts.
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> And also, my job at Europeana is now available and I think you guys fit
> the description quite nicely. If you are interested in it have a look at:
> http://pro.europeana.eu/job/collections-editor. You can of course contact
> me if you have questions about the job.
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> Cheers,
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> Joris
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