1. Work Package 4
All WP Meeting - Athens
28th November 2013
Sam Leon
co-funded by the European Union

2. Objectives & goals
• Strengthen existing networks and engage new
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stakeholders around Europeana
Support a network of open metadata evangelists
who will help to raise awareness of legal and
technical best practises
Facilitate collaboration between technologists in
the Europeana community
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3. Tasks
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4. Deliverables/milestones in this period
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5. Twitter & Slideshare
Compared to where we were 6 months
ago this is a growth of about 50% of
our follower base on social media
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6. Associated Partners
1. EUROCORR – Burckhardt Source
2. MarineLives
3. Mannheim University Library
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7. Website re-vamp
• Clearer paths to key content
• Now listing all academic presentations with links
to slides where they exist
More information on associated partners
Feedback appreciated!
More blog posts including news about academic
publications, key presentations and updates from
the Open Humanities Awards
Easier to find information on how to become an
associate partner
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8. Website re-vamp
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9. The network of open data evangelists =
OpenGLAM
• The network is growing! Over 500 subscribers on the
public mailing list!
• The OpenGLAM Working Group now has over 10
dedicated volunteers from over 10 different countries
dedicated to promoting open data who convene on a
monthly basis to coordinate e.g. of collaborations:
launching public domain calculators in France with
French Ministry of Culture.
• Convened the first meeting of the OpenGLAM Advisory
Board (Dan Cohen, Michael Edson, Paul Keller, Jill
Cousins, Kat Walsh) to review how we can strengthen
this network and build on successes
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10. Curator’s Choice Blog Post Series
• Put a celebratory spotlight institutions making the
exciting steps of openly licensing their digital
collections and also the curators that work everyday
with such collections.
• So far we’ve had contributions from the British
Library, Rijksmuseum, UK National Archives,
Danish Museum of Art, Emily Dickinson Archive
• We want to see DM2E material on there next year!
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11. Improved documentation and open collections
• Check out openglam.org/documentation
• We’ve been pulling together research and manuals
on open data for cultural heritage, everything from
how-to guides to impact studies
• We’ve been developing a slide deck for volunteer
evangelists to go about promoting open cultural
data
• We’re listing all open collections we know of held by
cultural institutions to inspire more good work. See
openglam.org/open-collections
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12. Workshops
• OpenGLAM Workshop in Geneva, Switzerland
• Involving Swiss Federal Archives and the Swiss
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National Library
Jill Cousins (Europeana) gave a keynote as well
as presentations from winners of the Open
Humanities Awards
Now there is an action plan for setting up an
OpenGLAM Local Group in Switzerland and they
are aware of the DM2E toolset
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13. OpenGLAM Switzerland, September 2013
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14. Workshops
• Wittgenstein Group user feedback session NEXT
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Address the questions of what do scholarly users
really want from Pundit as well as feedback on
how well the current tool works
Opportunity to find out more about what the
group in Bergen have been doing and
understanding how they are using our tools
Exercises now circulating on Wittgenstein
Incubator mailing list
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15. Presentations at external events
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16. Next Steps
• Technical and user documentation for tools from
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WP1 and WP2 (month 24)
Short video on consuming open linked data in the
context of the humanities for WP3 (month 24)
The next round of the contest awards which
should “encourage and highlight innovative work
building on the technology developed as part of
WP1-3, and for partnership working between
developers and non-technical researchers”
(month 24)
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