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Breathing new life into old data: How opening your collection can spark imagination and inspire creative re-use Doug Holland, Library Director, Missouri Botanical Garden Trish Rose-Sandler, Data Project Coordinator, Missouri Botanical Garden 10/4/13 Missouri Library Association conference, St Louis MO
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Breathing new life into old data - How opening your collection can spark imagination and inspire creative re-use

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This presentation was given by Doug Holland and Trish Rose-Sandler at the Missouri Libraries Association conference held in St Louis MO in Oct 2013. There is a significant online literature and image repository called the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). Content from this repository has inspired a range of users to re-contextualize the BHL data in new, previously unimagined roles including: scientists creating visualizations of species names publishing; citizen scientists blogging about fascinating creatures; designers incorporating marine life into wedding invitations, artists creating collages of animal illustrations and nature photography ; and home decorators adding punch and wit to the walls of their kids bedrooms. Using the example of BHL and its open data principles, the presentation will discuss what open data is and how libraries can expand the impact and reach of their collections through open data methods.
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Breathing new life into old data: How opening your collection can spark imagination and inspire creative re-

use

Doug Holland, Library Director, Missouri Botanical GardenTrish Rose-Sandler, Data Project Coordinator, Missouri Botanical Garden

10/4/13 Missouri Library Association conference, St Louis MO

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What is BHL?

• A consortium of natural history, botanical libraries and research institutions

• An open access digital repository for historic biodiversity literature

• An open data repository of taxonomic names and bibliographic information

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Member Institutions• Academy of Natural Sciences Library and

Archives• American Museum of Natural History Library • California Academy of Sciences Library• Cornell University Library • The Field Museum Library• Harvard University Botany Libraries • Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the

Museum of Comparative Zoology • Library of Congress • Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole

Oceanographic Institution Library• Missouri Botanical Garden Library• Natural History Museum, London, Library &

Archives• The New York Botanical Garden • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library & Archives• Smithsonian Institution Libraries • United States Geological Survey Libraries

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What is Art of Life?

• Full title - The Art of Life: Data Mining and Crowdsourcing the Identification and Description of Natural History Illustrations from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)

• Grant given to Missouri Botanical Garden in St Louis

• Funded by National Endowment for the Humanities

• Runs May 2012-April 2014

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What is open content?1. Artists/Designers2. Biologists/Taxonomists/

“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 attribute and/or share-alike.”

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What are some content types ripe for opening up?

Bibliographic records

Vocabularies

Content files • Literature published before 1923 (public domain)

• Primary source materials • manuscripts• photographs • maps• artifacts• audio and video recordings• oral histories• postcards• posters

• Local history – Genealogical collections

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Examples of open content – bibliographic recordst/

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Examples of open content – bibliographic recordst/

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Examples of open content – vocabularies/

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Examples of open content – vocabularies/

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Examples of open content – primary resources/

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Examples of open content – primary resources/

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Why is open content important to cultural heritage institutions?

“it is now the mark—and social responsibility—of world-class institutions to develop and share free cultural and educational resources.”

Initiative to building a global cultural commons for everyone to use, access and enjoy.

Getty holds “the conviction that understanding art makes the world a better place, and sharing our digital resources is the natural extension of that belief. “

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How to open your dataOne click downloads

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How to open your data

Bulk dataBHL provides metadata & content via

• Export files• OAI-PMH• APIs• OpenURL

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How to open your data Share with other portals

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How to open your data Share with other portals

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Copyright and LicensingMake public domain content available – make it clear its copyright status=public domain.

For copyrighted content if you are the copyright holder, dedicate it to the public domain or license content as openly as possible

CCOCC-BYCC-BY-SACC-BY-NC

PDDLODC-ByODC-ODbL

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Open Content and Copyright

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Examples of re-use of BHL Open Content

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iTunes U

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Scholarly and commercial publications

And the “price” of open content.

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Artists/Graphic DesignersArtists/Graphic DesignersNonprofit fund raising

Natural Histories: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History

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Citizen scientists/enthusiasts

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http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/photos/0,,20612661_21187249,00.html

Citizen scientists/enthusiasts

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Educators/OutreachEducators

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Henry Curtis-Williams@All Rights Reservedhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/67312941@N03/8504225098/in/photostream/

Artists/Graphic DesignersArtists/Graphic Designers

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Artists/Graphic Designers

http://www.missmoss.co.za/2013/06/24/biodiversity-heritage-library/

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Artists/Graphic DesignersArtists/Graphic Designers

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Commentary on Miss Moss blog

Artists/Graphic DesignersArtists/Graphic Designers

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Artists/Graphic DesignersArtists/Graphic Designers

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Artists/Graphic DesignersArtists/Graphic Designers

Public Art in Denver Light Rail StationsCreated by artist Nancy O’Neil

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Benefits to open content?• Fulfills public mission of libraries

• Promotes your collection to new audiences

• Stimulates creative reuse

• Increases discoverability

• Enables Data enrichment

• Less taxing on staff resources

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Further information about open content and libraries

• Open Bibliographic Data Guide http://obd.jisc.ac.uk/

• OpenGLAM http://openglam.org/

• LODLAM http://lodlam.net/