Hacking Culture into Open Data

Hacking Culture into Open Data

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  Hacking Culture intoOpen Data: How Dutch GLAMs Manage to Reach an Audience of Millions Through Wikimedia Every Month Maarten Brinkerink Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Wikimuseums, Napels, May 6th , 2016 t: @OpenCultuurData | #opencultuurdata
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  WHAT IS OPENCULTUUR DATA? Open Cultuur Data is a network of GLAM professionals, developers, designers, creators, makers, IPR-experts and open data experts. It opens up culture and stimulates the development of new applications. By doing so culture in the broadest sense is made accessible for a larger audience. Open Cultuur Data is initiated by Open State Foundation, Kennisland and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
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  FIRST MEETING Photo: BreytenErnsting. CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nl/)
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  MEETUPS
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  CLASS OF 2014
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  READER
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  HACKATHONS Photo: Breyten Ernsting.CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nl/)
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  CULTURE APP CHALLENGE
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  CHALLENGES “The challenge forthe heritage sector is to develop a rich and stable semi-finished product that both third parties and heritage institutions can, in turn, use to develop new products themselves.”
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  CHALLENGES “What are thecosts and benefits of making collections [openly] available to the
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  ENTER WIKIMEDIA
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  WHY WIKIMEDIA? • GLAM-Wikihas opened up numerous heritage objects worldwide, from that start Dutch GLAMs have been actively involved • Wikimedia offers several public tools to measure the reuse and reach of these object within Wikimedia • Since 2014 Open Cultuur Data structurally measures the reuse and reach of objects from Dutch GLAMs through Wikimedia
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  REUSE
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  REUSE
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  REUSE
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  REUSE
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  Reach through Wikimediarelates to the number of times a web page on Wikimedia (including Wikipedia) with one or more Dutch heritage objects is consulted. – It remains unknown how much attention from the reader these objects actually receive REACH THROUGH WIKIMEDIA
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  • 29 DutchGLAMs on Wikimedia – Archives, museums & (university) libraries – Latest addition 5 months ago – Earliest collaboration 6 years ago • Almost 880,000 objects on Wikimedia – Photos, scanned artworks, audio and video recordings, etc. – Almost 3% of the entire Wikimedia Commons repository DUTCH GLAMS on Wikimedia
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  • Currently almost54,000 unique objects are reused (more than 6% of the total offering) • In total these objects are being reused more than 148,000 times, • The reused objects are spread across more than 110,000 pages – almost 23,000 pages on the Dutch Wikipedia – almost 14,000 pages on the English Wikipedia Reuse on WIKIMEDIA
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  • March 2016the more than 110,000 pages together generated more than 155 million page views (this is in one month) – Although there are fewer English than Dutch Wikipedia articles, the English Wikipedia is responsible for six times the amount of traffic • In six years time, pages containing Dutch heritage objects together have generated more than 3 billion page REACH THROUGH WIKIMEDIA
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  • Based onthe Dutch experience, 6% reuse for digital heritage collections donated to Wikimedia can be expected – The average percentage is actually higher at almost 28% • For every object contributed by a GLAM, the institution can expect more than 1100 page views monthly, through articles that reuse (PRELIMINARY) PROGNOSIS
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  www.opencultuurdata.nl @opencultuurdata mbrinkerink@beeldengeluid.nl @mbrinkerink Thanks to: Maarten Zeinstra,Jesse de Vos, Lotte Belice Baltussen, Nikki Timmermans, Tom Kunzler, Tijmen Schep, Maarten Dammers, Hay Kranen, Magnus Manske, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science & the Dutch Embassy in Rome CONTACT DETAILS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS