Towards an open, participatory cultural heritage Museoalan Teemapäivät Whose Museum? 12 September 2014 Peter Hansen, Playing Children, Enghave Square, 1907-08, KMS2075. Public Domain. Merete Sanderhoff Curator of digital museum practice http://www.slideshare.net/MereteSanderhoff @MSanderhoff
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Towards an open, participatory
cultural heritage
Museoalan Teemapäivät Whose Museum?
12 September 2014
Peter Hansen, Playing Children, Enghave Square, 1907-08, KMS2075. Public Domain.
Merete SanderhoffCurator of digital museum practice
Were our collections formed to inspire design of makeup lines?
We are not owners,but stewards
of our collections
“Our understanding of research, education, artistic creativity, and the progress of knowledge is built upon the axiom that no idea stands alone, and that all innovation is built on the ideas and innovation of others.”
Smithsonian Web and New Media Strategy, Version 1.0, 2009http://www.si.edu/content/pdf/about/web-new-media-strategy_v1.0.pdf
“The preservation, transmission, and advancement of knowledge in the digital age are promoted by the unencumbered use and reuse of digitized content for research, teaching, learning, and creative activities.”
Memo on open access to digital representations of works in the public domain from museum, library, and archive collections at Yale University, May 2011
“To be a public museum your digital data should be free. And digital data is not a threat to the real data, it’s just an advertisement that only increases the aura of the original. People go to the Louvre because they’ve seen the Mona Lisa; the reason people might not be going to an institution is because they don’t know what’s in your institution. Digitization is a way to address that issue, in a way that simply wasn’t possible before.”
William Noel, former curator, Walter’s Art Museum, 2012
“Our primary mission is to ‘tell the truth’. We put as much quality in our work as possible. That is why we share the best quality we have. If people google ‘The Milkmaid’ by Vermeer then we want them to find our good quality image, not all the bad and deformed versions of this beautiful painting.”
Lizzy Jongma, data manager, Rijksmuseum, 2012
“If they want to have a Vermeer on their toilet paper, I’d rather have a very high-quality image of Vermeer on toilet paper than a very bad reproduction.”
Taco Dibbits, Director of Collections, Rijksmuseum, 2013http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/arts/design/museums-mull-public-use-of-online-art-images.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
"Everyone (…) wants to recoup costs but almost none claimed to actually achieve or expected to achieve this. Even those services that claimed to recoup full costs generally did not account fully for salary costs or overhead expenses."
Simon Tanner, Reproduction charging models & rights policy for digital images in American art museums, 2004
Peter Hansen, Playing Children, Enghave Square, 1907-08, KMS2075. Public Domain.
Public Domain potentials
Public school programmesTeachers, researchers, scholars, studentsWikipediansCulture snackersPublishersCreative industriesNiche groups and communitiesOpen innovation
Cultural heritage needs to be here
Cultural heritage needs to be here
If it it isn’t online, it doesn’t exist
Necessary investmentsDigitisation
200,000 works are inaccessible online
Infrastructureconnect images, data and users
Physical and online create integrated experiences
Facilitation of reuse
3. Recommendations
Think big, start small, move fast*
Share ownership of your collections
Be a catalyst for users’ knowledge and creativity
Different users need different things
Technology is not a goal, but a precondition
Digital is a state of mind
Be human, be yourself
Work together, learn, grow – and share
*Michael Edson
CCBY-SA 2.0 ODM on Flickr
International seminar in Copenhagensince 2011
Participants from the culture sectors, ministry and agency, Wikipedia, startups
I dream of…all Danish school kids becoming Art Pilots*
more Danish art collections embracing the Public Domain
measuring the impact that openness has on people’s lives, opportunities, and wellbeing**
open museums that support people’s own Bildung and Building
*Peter Leth, Lær IT**Simon Tanner, King’s College
”Our role is still more to facilitate public use of cultural heritage for learning, creativity, and innovation. Today, learning happens in reciprocity. We are all a part of the web. We shape each other.”