openglam: building a community of open advocates
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Slides of table session at the DISH 2013 conference. Many slides were put there to be up for discussion.TRANSCRIPT
Building a Network of Open Culture Advocates
@OpenGLAM @jpekel
Who am I?
Who are you?
Before we start
Please interrupt me!
(Really!)
What is it?
“A global network of people and organisations who are working to open up content and data held by GLAM
institutions”
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 share-alike.”
What is it?
What do we do?
Encourage institutions to a ‘Open Unless’ Culture
What do we do?
Blog/mailing list/Twitter with news and highlights around Open Culture
What do we do?
Empowering local groups and people with a global network
What do we do?
Focus on good work being done in the sector
What do we do?
Advocate the merits of open data
What do we do?
Get ‘open’ on the map of the GLAMs
What do we do?
Get culture on the map of the open advocates
What do we do?
Provide help and expertise
What do we do?
OpenGLAM principles
What do we do?
Open Collections
What do we do?
Slidedecks, Factsheets, documentation, case studies
What do we do?
Have local OpenGLAM groups in 7 countries, more incubating
What do we do?
Successful collaboration with the Public Domain Review
What do we do?
Community Building
Community building is a field of practices directed toward the creation or enhancement of community among individuals within a regional area (such as a neighborhood) or with a common interest.
Community Building
So now you know…
Community Building
Why would anybody want join a community?
Community Building
Shared interest and knowledge
Community Building
Peers to work with on a shared problem
Community Building
Benefit from a global network
Community Building
We’re nice people
Observing
Following
Endorsing
Contributing
Owning
Leading
Follows @OpenGLAM, sometimes reads a blog because of that
OpenGLAM Pyramid of Engagement
Subscribes to the mailing list, does not mingle in the discussion.
RT’s our tweets, mentions OpenGLAM on own blog and tweets. Comments on mailing list discussions
Writes a blog post every now and then. Starts new discussions on mailing list.
OpenGLAM advisory board. Actively thinks about the direction OpenGLAM needs to go and attends virtual meetings every few months.
OpenGLAM working group members. Acts as representatives of local hubs for OpenGLAM activity. Attends monthly virtual meetings. Starts new projects with the group.
Observing
Following
Endorsing
Contributing
Owning
Leading
Twitter, blog
What do we offer them?
Mailing list, blog
Documentation, Open Collections, OpenGLAM Principles
Tools, Slidedecks, factsheets. Time.
Decision making
Core of the Network, monthly meetings, support for projects
Some questions you might have
All for free?
Some questions you might have
What’s the difference between the Wikimedia’s, Europeana’s etc. of this world?
Some questions you might have
Sure you have more..
Some questions I have for you
What is an ‘Open GLAM’
Some questions I have for you
Is a community actually going to change anything?
Some questions I have for you
How to reach outside the bubble?
Some questions I have for you
Limits to what we can do. How to grow?
Some questions I have for you
Want to help?
