Wp4 results july dec 2014

co-funded by the European Union

Work Package 4Results July-December 2014

12 December 2014Lieke Ploeger, Open Knowledge

Objectives

• Catalyze active community around Europeana: strengthen existing networks and engaging new stakeholders

• Support a network of open metadata evangelists (OpenGLAM) for raising awareness of legal and technical best practises around open cultural data

• Enable content holders to contribute new material to Europeana (workshops, documentation)

• Facilitate collaboration between technologists in the Europeana community and end users (events, online activities, contest)

DM2E All-WP meeting, 12 December 2014, Pisa *12/12/2014

Tasks & deliverables

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Deliverables Due

D4.2 Workshop Programme

D4.6 Contest Award Fund

M36

M36

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15 July 2014: Starting the OpenGLAM local group for Germany

Open Data in Cultural Heritage Workshop: OpenGLAM in Germany (Wikimedia, Berlin, Open Knowledge festival fringe event)

18 September 2014: Pundit community session

DARIAH-EU VCC General meeting (Rome, Italy)

18 November 2014: DM2E showcase event at ONB

Putting Linked Library Data to Work: the DM2E Showcase (Vienna, Austria)

Open Humanities Hack: 28 November 2014, London, UK

Jointly organised by

Workshop at SWIB 2014 conference, 1-3 December, Bonn

Promotes and furthers free and open access to digital cultural heritage, by:

➔ Actively maintaining an overview of Open Collections

➔ Providing documentation on the process and benefits of opening up cultural data

➔ Publishing regular news and blog items

➔ Facilitating the OpenGLAM Working Group and Advisory Board

➔ Organising events

OpenGLAM community

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• Working Group going global: now 17 members, including New Zealand, India and Brazil

• OpenGLAM local: 4 local groups running Switzerland, Austria, Finland, Germany

• OpenGLAM benchmark survey startedMeasuring the state of advancement in open cultural data incountries around the world (November 2014 - April 2015)

• Working on new functionality and content for the Open Collections page

• Increased focus on case studies from different size institutions

Main updates this period

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Continued growth

Metric 1st Feb 2013 1st Feb 2014 1st Dec 2014

Twitter handle 906 2,106 3,240

Public mailing list 250 604 720

Unique visitors to site

19,101 60,408 95,267

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Contest Awards – round 2

Second round: 2014– Open track: SEA CHANGE,

Early Modern European Peace Treaties Online

– DM2E track: FinderApp WITTfind

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Contest Awards – round 2 blogging

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DM2E dissemination stats

*12/6/2014

Number of presentations given:- in Year 2- Year 3 – so far

1917

Number of Slideshare presentations uploaded:- in Year 2- Year 3 – so far

2029

Number of blogs posts (across whole web platform):- in Year 2- Year 3 – so far

9596

Number of academic papers published:- in Year 2- Year 3 – so far

85

DM2E Twitter followers- end of Year 2- Year 3 – so far

400631

Increased partner blogging

★ NTU Athens: ‘MINT - Metadata Interoperability Platform’

★ Humboldt University: ‘Mapping the Polytechnisches Journal to DM2E’

★ EAJC / University of Mannheim: ‘JudaicaLink’

★ Still planned: ...

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DM2E web statistics

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➔ on average between 1000-1200 sessions per month (previously around 500-700)

➔ increased blogging, effect of awards & events

Presentations / publications

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Newsletters

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Final work

• Winners of Open Humanities Awards round 2 finish their work and publish results

• Final updates to community documentation (wiki)

• Publications and presentations overview updated

• Blogging on final results

• Final newsletter

• Write-up of deliverables on events and awards

• Adding all deliverables to the website

… continuation of OpenGLAM*12/12/2014