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From: Cable Green <cable(a)creativecommons.org>
Date: 19 August 2013 18:29
Subject: OpenGLAM Principles, 3rd iteration
To: OER-DISCUSS(a)jiscmail.ac.uk
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http://openglam.org/principles/
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OpenGLAM Principles
*v.0.6.*
*Note: This is the third version of the OpenGLAM principles which we have
drafted together with the OpenGLAM Working Group. We would like this to be
a community effort so please give feedback on the OpenGLAM mailing
list<http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-glam>
!*
Galleries, libraries, archives and museums have a fundamental role in
*supporting
the advance of humanity’s knowledge*. They are the *custodians of our
cultural heritage* and in their collections they hold the *record of
humankind*.
The internet affords cultural heritage institutions a radical new
opportunity to *engage global audiences* and make their collections more *
discoverable* and *connected* than ever, allowing users not only to *enjoy* the
riches of the world’s memory institutions, but also to *contribute*, *
participate* and *share*.
We believe that cultural institutions that take steps to open up their
collections and metadata stand to benefit from these opportunities.
When we say that a collection or data set is “open” we mean that it is
complies with the Open Definition <http://opendefinition.org/>, which can
be summed up in the statement that:
“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 give credit
to the author and/or making any resulting work available under the same
terms as the original work.”
The first step to make a collection open is to apply an open license, but
that is where the story begins. Openness to collaboration and to novel
forms of user engagement are essential if cultural heritage institutions
are to realise the full potential of the internet for access, innovation
and digital scholarship.
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An OpenGLAM institution champions these principles:
1. *Digital information about the works* (metadata) should be released
under the Creative Commons Zero
Waiver<http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>
.
- *This promotes the maximum possible reuse of the data and allows your
resources to become more discoverable whilst also ensuring compliance with
major cultural data aggregators such as Europeana and the Digital Public
Library of America.*
For exemplary open metadata licensing policies see:
- Europeana Licensing
Framework<http://pro.europeana.eu/documents/858566/7f14c82a-f76c-4f4f-b8a7-600d2168a73d>
- Digital Public Library of
America<http://dp.la/info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/DPLAMetadataPolicy.pdf>
2. Keep *digital representations of works for which copyright has expired
(public domain) in the public domain* by not adding new rights to them.
- *Digital representations of public domain works should be placed in
the public domain via the use of the Public Domain
Mark<http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/>0/>.
This promotes the maximum possible reuse of the content*.
For exemplary open content licensing policies see:
- The Rijksmuseum<https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/api/terms-and-conditions-of-use>
- The British
Library<http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/reuse.asp>
- The Walters Art
Museum<http://thewalters.org/rights-reproductions.aspx>
For more detailed documents and charters on the importance of the digital
public domain see:
- Europeana Public Domain
Charter<http://pro.europeana.eu/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=d542819d-d169-4240-9247-f96749113eaa&groupId=10602>
- Communia Public Domain
Manifesto<http://www.publicdomainmanifesto.org/>
3. When publishing data make an *explicit* and *robust statement* of your
wishes and expectations with respect to reuse and repurposing of the
descriptions, the whole data collection, and subsets of the collection.
For exemplary statements see:
- The Rijksmuseum<https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/api/terms-and-conditions-of-use>
- The British
Library<http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/reuse.asp>
- The Walters Art
Museum<http://thewalters.org/rights-reproductions.aspx>
4. When publishing data use *open file formats* which are *machine-readable*
.
- *Formats that are machine readable are ones which are able to have
their data extracted by computer programs*.
- *If information is released in a closed file format, this can cause
significant obstacles to reusing the information encoded in it, forcing
those who wish to use the information to buy the necessary software*.
- *The structure and possible uses of the data should be well
documented, for example in a
datablog<http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=n&…
or
webpage<http://www.dnb.de/EN/Service/DigitaleDienste/LinkedData/linkeddata_node.html>
*.
For more information on open file formats, have a look at the Open Data
Handbook <http://opendatahandbook.org/en/appendices/file-formats.html>.
5. Opportunities to engage audiences in novel ways on the web should be
pursued.
- *When publishing data, be willing to answer questions from interested
parties about the data and support them in getting the most out of your data
*.
- *Give opportunities for your audiences to curate and collect items
from your collections. The Rijksmuseum’s
Rijksstudio<https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio> is
a great example of this kind engagement*.
- *Where possible consider allowing your users to enrich and improve
your metadata by leveraging crowdsourcing applications*.
- See more at:
http://openglam.org/principles/#sthash.k3DIhQOC.dpuf
--
Dr Martin L Poulter
Jisc Wikimedia Ambassador, July 2013 - March 2014
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