a few metrics about open data in the cultural sector

A few metrics about Open Data

16-09-2013, OKCon Geneva

Content

Open Metadata

• Licensing

• Quality

Open Content

• Licensing

• Case Study: The Science Museum in London

Conclusion

What is Europeana?

Europeana’s vision and mission

Europeana is a catalyst for change in the world of cultural heritage.

Our mission: The Europeana Foundation and its Network create new ways for people to engage with their cultural history, whether it’s for work, learning or pleasure.

Our vision: We believe in making cultural heritage openly accessible in a digital way, to promote the exchange of ideas and information. This helps us all to understand our cultural diversity better and contributes to a thriving knowledge economy.

29m records from 2,400 European galleries, museums, archives and libraries

Books, newspapers, journals, letters, diaries, archival papers

Paintings, maps, drawings, photographs

Music, spoken word, radio broadcasts

Film, newsreels, television

Curated exhibitions

31 languages

Europe’s cultural heritage portal

Open Metadata

Metadata in Europeana

Image title

Description

Open – CC0

Quality

Metadata Quality: It’s not this…

Metadata Quality: It’s not this…

Metadata Quality: The results..

Metadata qualityIt’s this

http://europeana.eu/portal/record/90402/18B27E0B0BE485841E31A57093650D3431F36444.html?start=3&query=melkmeisje+vermeer&startPage=1&rows=12

Metadata Quality: The results..

Creative Commons Zero Waiver (CC0)

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Rights Labeling

http://pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana-awareness/outcomes/-/document_library_display/5Qtl/view/982551

Open Content

Science museum London

Science museum London

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage

Science museum London

50 Images

20.000 views Per Day (!!!)

Europeana gets 50.000 hits per day

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sciencemuseum/sets/72157635363091572/with/9660575567/

GLAMwiki Toolset

Make batch upload to Wikimedia Commons as easy as possible

Include good metadata

Metrics

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAMToolset_project

Conclusion

Conclusion

Provide good quality metadata to get your material to be found

Openly license to make the use of it as easy as possible

Open Content can massively increase your institutions outreach – which can lead to other benefits, such as funding.

Get in touch!

Joris Pekel

Joris.pekel@kb.nl

@jpekel