open rijksmuseum data : challenges and opportunities
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INSIGHT project - Launch eventMIM Brussels - 9 November 2017
Saskia ScheltjensHead of the Research Services Department
DATA
OPEN
Challenges & Opportunities
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OUTLINE
• Rijksmuseum
• Rijksmuseum data
• Open Rijksmuseum data
National Museum of Art and HistoryMission: Connect People with Art and History
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Research Services DepartmentMission: Connect People with Art and History through data
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A LOT OF DATA
small HISTORY OF DATA & COLLECTION
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Facts and Figures
History1800 - ‘Nationale Kunstgalerij’1808 – Koninklijk Museum1815 – Rijks Museum (+ Print Room) 1875 – Design by PJH Cuypers1885 – Opening Rijksmuseum building2004 – Start renovation & restoration2013 – Reopening
Physical Collection (2017)- Collection of ~1,200,000 objects
-> Prints & Drawings ~700.000 objects- Library collection ~450.000 volumes- Current artworks on display 8.526 (7%)
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Library as THE 19th century place for art and research
The world of connaisseurs
Reading Room (Cuypers Library Hall), 1928 Study Room (Prints & Drawings), 1928
PROFESSIONALISATION
Formal collection registration & policies for library & object collection cataloging
1981 Standardized library cataloging (ISBD)
1988 Implementation of MARDOC rules for collection registration (-> SPECTRUM)
Ben Strik – 2013 - https://www.facebook.com/vpro/videos/10156926675263986
The Challenges of Metadata
ORGANISATIONAL
pre-2007
Integrated responsabilitieswithin curatorial departmentsregarding information / data management
ORGANISATIONAL
Separated responsabilitiesbetween curatorial & supporting departments
2007 Collection Management
Conservation
2016 Research Services
AUTOMATION & REGISTRATION
1980 First computer in the museum
1989 First modem, terminal & automated
library system (TinLib)
1990 Collection registration in automatedcollection management systems (Quixis 1990-1998; Adlib 1998-now)
Geert-Jan Koot with first modem & terminal Rijksmuseum (1989)
Olivetti M24 (1989)
REGISTRATION & DIGITIZATION
2007 - Mass digitization complete RMA collection
(Print Room/Collection) Online Project
Registration through acquisition
SCALING UP - NETWORK POWER
1999 First Rijksmuseum website
2002 First online library catalogue (OPAC) + first open data exports via Z39.50 > SRU
2005 CHIP project NWO/CATCH – reseach program(personalization using semantic data)
Part of the CHIP data model
Museum renovation/restoration, closed 2003-2013
Re-opening of the museum (2013)
AND DURING THAT TIMETHE INTERNET
HAPPENEDEXPLODED
The Yellow Milkmaid Syndrome
Regaining controlby sharing
Knowledge needs to be shared
Taco Dibbits
General Director Rijksmuseum
Core of current de facto Open Data Policy
SCALING UP - NETWORK POWER
Open collection data policy
CollectionRijksstudio - discovery interface (2013)API’s -> Europeana (2013), …
Library
SRU -> AdamNet (2003); VKK (2004); WORLDCAT (2012); ADGC (2014)
CC BY (Attribution only)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
CC0 Waiverhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
EVOLUTION OPEN DATA POLICIES RMA
2011
2013
Collection discovery interface (Q42/Fabrique)https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/api
API Key -> controlled access
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/api/rijksmuseum-oai-api-instructions-for-use - data format: DC
http://rijksmuseum.github.io/ (documentation)https://github.com/Rijksmuseum (code)
JSON
Elements
• Collection: The complete online collection of the Rijksmuseum with all public data
• Content pages: Static pages as used on the website.
• Usersets: Sets from Rijksstudio users.
• Calendar: Calendar and availability of expositions, tours, etc.
https://datahub.io/nl/dataset/rijksmuseum
http://accurator.nl
COMMIT SealincMedia Project (2015-2016)+ first tests with triple store RMA
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/vogelen
Photo by Romaine – CC0 1.0 -
COMMIT SealincMedia Project (2015-2016)+ first public crowd-sourcing events
Floor Koeleman (C2DH) RMA data visualization project (2017)
RESEARCH SERVICES CHALLENGES
To name but a few ….
• Overcome ‘death by silo’
• Interdisciplinary co-operation
• New additional information services
• Renewed sustainable data architecture
• Extended open data strategy
• Interoperable, networked (semantic), open
From a closed library to an open collection data space
Rijksmuseum Library (2013)Rijksmuseum Library (2004) – cop. Candida Höfer
Contact information
QUESTIONS?
Saskia Scheltjens
[email protected]://www.slideshare.net/saschel/presentations
@saschel
This presentation uses images with an open license, except otherwise indicated by *
THANK YOUParts of this presentation are based upon
work of and talks with
Taco DibbitsGeert-Jan KootTrilce Navarete
Lora Aroyo
Lizzy Jongma
Chris Dijkshoorn
and many more