sharing is caring 2015 - eva van passel
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How open is open enough?
A philosophy of cultural commons for the cultural heritage sector
Eva Van Passel iMinds-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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Times of change
Image CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by William Cho on Flickr
Users, makers, online experience seekers
Digital access: how to get involved?!
Often great challenges for cultural institutions
My background: research
Local digitisation and digital access projects
Research in the Europeana context
A small-scale research project with an artist
Europeana Inside
Open licensing of data as potential barrier
'One size fits all' can be scary for many
This does not imply an unwillingness to share
An artist’s perspective
Jasper Rigole's IICADOM: the International Institute for the Conservation, Archiving and Distribution of other People’s Memories
Lessons for real memory institutions
Stills from Temps MortJasper Rigole, 2010
Creative approaches to openness
Attitudes to risk
Interacting with external platforms
Fostering creative reuse(Van Passel & Rigole, 2014)
Arts and heritage: ad hoc challenges
“There has to be a better way.”
Towards a framework for practice and policy
Why a philosophy of commons?
“Towards a Cultural Commons Approach as aFramework for Cultural Policy and Practice in a Network Society”.
Paper with the Agency for Arts & Heritage, presented at a conference on Knowledge Commons
(van der Linden, Van Passel & Driesen, 2014)
Working with policy makers
The intrinsic value of culture
Users' right to sustainable access
A varied and inclusive offer
Underlying principles
Constructed cultural commons?
Resources and community
Goals and objectives
Degrees of openness
Governance(Madison, Frischmann & Strandburg, 2010)
… and in practice?
Beware of the black hole of the 20th century
Michael P. Edson: “Think big, start small, move fast!”
Open up what you can, as soon as you can
Towards a cultural commons for Europe
(References)
Madison, M. J., Frischmann, B. M., Strandburg, K. J. (2010). Constructing Commons in the CulturalEnvironment. Cornell Law Review, 95 (4), 657-709.
van der Linden, H., Van Passel, E., & Driesen, L. (2014). Towards a Cultural Commons Approach as aFramework for Cultural Policy and Practice in a Network Society. Paper presented at the 2nd ThematicConference on Knowledge Commons, 5-6 September 2014, New York, USA.
Van Passel, E., & Rigole, J. (2014). Fictional Institutions and Institutional Frictions: Creative Approaches toOpen GLAMs. Digital Creativity, Volume 25, Issue 3, 203-211.DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2014.904363
Slide “Know your cultural institutions' rights” by Andrea Wallace, [email protected]
(Photographs by Eva Van Passel, unless otherwise noted)