OpenGLAM

O “open” é para indicar que trata-se de acervo aberto, GLAM é acrônimo para Galerias, Bibliotecas (libraries), Arquivos e Museus.

O nome pode não ser lá essas coisas, mas a iniciativa é interessante.

O OpenGLAM faz parte da Open Knowledge Foundation e busca promover acesso aberto a acervos mantidos por galerias, bibliotecas, arquivos e museus. O material disponibilizado por ele é licenciado sob a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (all jurisdictions).

OpenGLAM helps cultural institutions to open up their content and data through hands-on workshops, documentation and guidance and it supports a network of open culture evangelists through its Working Group.

 

Os princípios:

1. Release digital information about the artefacts (metadata) into the public domain using an appropriate legal tool such as the Creative Commons Zero Waiver.

• • 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
  • Digital Public Library of America

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 copies and representations of works in which copyright has expired (public domain works) should be explicitly marked using an appropriate legal tool such as the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark. This promotes the maximum possible reuse of the content.

For exemplary open content licensing policies see:

• • The Rijksmuseum
  • The British Library
  • The Walters Art Museum

For more detailed documents and charters on the importance of the digital public domain see:

• • Europeana Public Domain Charter
  • Communia Public Domain Manifesto

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
  • The British Library
  • The Walters Art Museum
  • National Library of New Zealand

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 or webpage.

For more information on open file formats, have a look at the Open Data Handbook.

5. Opportunities to engage audiences in novel ways on the web should be pursued.

• • Clearly document the open data, content and services you provide so that others can easily re-use, build and improve on what you’ve made available.
  • 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 is a great example of this kind of engagement.
  • Where possible consider allowing your users to enrich and improve your metadata by leveraging crowdsourcing applications