Seminar i Helsinki

2. Working together
Helsinki Feb 5 2015

3. Lars Lundqvist
National Heritage Board
Sweden
Development
New media and technology
(archaeologist)
@arkland_swe

4. Riksantikvarieämbetet –
National Heritage Board
• National Agency – Ministry of Culture
• Historic Preservation
• Not a museum agency

5. Development unit
Open (linked) data Cultural heritage sector
Creative industry, tourism
Europeana aggregator Museums
UGC, crowdsourcing Civil society

6. - Information 24/7 (office hours)
- Info present everywhere (institution)
- Social – network (broadcasting)
Things have changed…

7. - People share knowledge and creativity
- People wants to do stuff - active
- ”We want information here and now!”

8. - Most people don’t know of your site!
- People know stuff that you don’t!
- People prefer sites where they can interact!
And…

9. What NHB have been doing?
• Infrastructure – co-search, distribution
• Open data (OpenGov, OpenGlam, PSI, Inspire)
• Digital storytelling
• Collaborate with Wikipedia, Europeana etc
(more facilitator, less DIY)

10. Examples - Results
Linked sources
Infrastructure – SOCH/Kringla
Wiki Loves Monuments
WIR - WdevIR
WIR Report http://samla.raa.se/xmlui/bitstream/handle/raa/376/Rapp%202013_14.pdf?sequence=1

11. Linked sources - infrastructure
Objects – institutional collections
Context – encyclopedic information
Story – narrative, subjective, personal

12. Wikipedia
Managment
Developers
Research
Learning
Creative industries
K-SAMSÖKK-SAMSÖK
reuse
Context Object Story

13. Museum items
Photographs
Ancient monuments
DocumentsBuildings
Drawings
SOCH (K-samsök)
48 institutions
5.6 mio objects
1.5 mio x,y
2.0 mio with images

14. Läns-
museum
Läns-
museum
Läns-
museum
Läns-
museum
Historic
Preservation
Museum
SOCH/K-SAMSÖK
(RAÄ)
Kringla.nuMuseisök
Google
Tidsresan/
Time Mash
API
Fornfynd IOS
Wikipedia
(civilsamhället)
Libris
(Royal Library)
Läns-
museum
Läns-
museum
Läns-
museum
Läns-
museum
Local
Socitety
Wikipedia, Wikimedia
(civil society)
API
Europeana

15. Search: Kringla
• SOCH Application
• Co-search service
• Display linked information
• Link tool (open)
• Lab space (SOCH)

17. Wikimedia Commons
SOCH/Royal Armory
www.platsr.se
Wikipedia
Wikipmedia
Commons
SOCH
LOD
SOCH
LOD
Europeana
LOD
Libris
LOD
Google Maps
Street view
Panoramio
User of
Events
Personer
(relatives)
Owner
Described by
Described by

18. Libris
8 mio
Europeana
30 mio
Ksamsök
5 mio
Wikipedia
Wikimedia
Commons
120 mio
160 mio objects
SOCH-Europeana ecosystem

19. Wikipedian in Residence
Teach employees to be Wikipedians (pilot in 2012)

20. Wikipedian dev in Residence
”Harvest” links from Wikimedia/wikipedia to SOCH
(enrich GLAM-objects in SOCH)

21. Autogenerated”info boxes”

22. Supporter of ”Wiki Loves Monuments”

23. ”Pros can improve
Wikipedia”
”Why would agencies still print
informationsheets no one finds? Or
create web sites that nobody visits?”
”Why not just accept that people get
their information from Wikipedia!”
Emanuel Karlsten
Sweden’s biggest daily
(Dagens Nyheter 2012-06-05)

24. [presentationen: http://www.slideshare.net/surikat/]