building the global cultural commons
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Slides for US OpenGLAM Launch, 23th March 2013, Berkeley School of Information, University of California.TRANSCRIPT
Building the GlobalCultural Commons
Jonathan Gray (@jwyg)Director of Policy and [email protected]
US OpenGLAM Launch23th March 2013
Berkeley School of InformationUniversity of California
Who are theOpen Knowledge Foundation?
We are a global movement to open up knowledge around the world and see it used and useful.
We bring together a diverse community, building a network of individuals and organisations, founded on key principles.
We create change by educating, empowering, evangelising and making.
We promote open access, open content, and open data, and the public domain.
1. Opening up knowledge2. Seeing it used and useful
1. Opening up knowledge2. Seeing it used and useful
What do we mean by open?
“A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or sharealike.” - OpenDefinition.org
How do we promote openness?
Principles, policies and practises
People
Big network of evangelists, hackers, makers, civil servants, civil society organisations, scientists, students, journalists, researchers, curators, lawyers, librarians, archivists, activists, artists, analysts, designers, educators, etc.
Working Groups in different domains.
Local Groups in countries and cities around the world.
Events
Documentation
1. Opening up knowledge2. Seeing it used and useful
How do we promote reuse?
Skills and training
Awards and competitions
Tools and projects
What is OpenGLAM?
We want to build a strong global coalition of people and organisations
who are working to open up the world’s cultural heritage.
1. Open metadata about works from catalogues,
and databases.
2. Open digital copies of works which have
entered the public domain.
How?
OpenGLAM network
OpenGLAM principles
OpenGLAM workshops
OpenGLAM handbook
OpenGLAM _________
Culture Labs
The dream
A vibrant cultural commons that everyone is free to use and enjoy
Freely reusable copy of every public domain work in the world
An open database of the world’s heritage
Every work by creator X
Every work from period Y
Every work related to place Z
Collaborating around the commons
Adding value to the commons
Curation, transcription, description, identification, geolocation, annotation,
translation, interpretation, context
No barriers to usage
More creativity and innovation,greater awareness, more uptake
The world’s culture for everyone
A shared vision
Working together to make it happen
Jonathan [email protected] | @jwyg
Director of Policy and IdeasThe Open Knowledge Foundation
http://okfn.org | @okfn