Re: [GLAM-US] [OpenGLAM] Getty's James Cuno: Advocate for Open Content

RE: the Getty Vocabularies. The Getty has begun a phased, two-year project to publish the Getty Vocabularies as Linked Open Data. More information can be found here: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/lod/index.html David David Farneth Assistant Director The Getty Research Institute 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688 office: (310) 440-7076 mobile: (310) 270-5280 fax: (310) 440-7783 (fax) dfarneth(a)getty.edu Assistant: Cassandra Heiser: (310) 440-7433 Subscribe to GRI e-News ( http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/e_news/index.html ) Subscribe to GRI e-News. Follow us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/GettyResearchInstitute Hello all, I was very excited to see this blog post come out of the Getty today, from CEO James Cuno, who is both a polarizing and respected force in the museum world. In the U.S. we've been trying to encourage the Getty to release their Vocabularies into the public domain for years. In my last effort, I had the Dallas Museum of Art's Rob Stein tell me he would be sure to "strongly encourage" this as soon as he could, because there was really no reason why it shouldn't be. So that is a great win for us, in addition to the fact that the Getty is a new proponent and advocate for open culture in general. http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/open-content-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/ I'm also personally quite proud that the recent Horizon Report: Museum Edition was cited as his rationale, thanks to the fact that Open Content was included as a near-term horizon in the 2012 report. We worked hard to get that included this year, since Open Content has been on the bubble in past Horizon Reports. It's also exciting to see the Walters listed first among Cuno's listing of forward thinking institutions in the US who have paved the way for open culture. This blog should prove useful for those still needing convincing - enjoy! Lori -- Lori Byrd Phillips Digital Marketing Content Coordinator The Children's Museum of Indianapolis 703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/