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A brief presentation I gave recently for a Museum and Gallery Services Queensland (http://www.magsq.com.au/) event, highlighting some good examples of collecting institutions making innovative use of online technologies.
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Open Access Collections:some case studies
Jessica Coates
Creative Commons ClinicOctober 2009
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Powerhouse Museum
• released 1500 public domain photographs to Flickr Commons
• ‘Play’ worksheets available under CC BY-NC
• encouraged CC for ‘photo of the day’
• collection descriptions and data under CC
Woman holding decorated bicycle, Phillips Glass Plate Negative Collection, Powerhouse Museum, www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/collection=Phillips_Glass_Plate_Negative
• 20x increased visitation
• crowd-sourced metadata
• unexpected discoveries (eg locations)
• partnerships (eg ABC)
• reduced costs for Australian community and schools
• didn’t hurt sales
promotional + other benefits = net +ve $
Open Content Licensing and the Future of Collections, Paula Bray, http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/bray/bray.html
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Powerhouse Museum
Powerhouse Museum collection record http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/27/another-opac-discovery-the-gambey-dip-circle-and-the-value-of-minimal-tombstone-data/
“If your organisation is still having doubts about the value of making available un-edited, un-verified, ageing tombstone data then it is worth showing examples like these.”
- Seb Chan
Australian newspapers online
• Launched by the NLA, with partners, Aug 2009
• 547,430 pages and 6M articles available for full-text search
AUSTRALIApart of the Creative Commons international initiative
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Crowd-sourcing text corrections – 1,300 volunteers have corrected 3.4 million lines from 160,000 pages
Courier Mail, Australian Newspapers, http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/24979
Australian newspapers online
AUSTRALIApart of the Creative Commons international initiative
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http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/12
Tropenmuseum
• 312 photographs now on Wikicommons - for use in Wikipedia (4th most visited site on Internet)
• avoided image copyright issues because volunteer photographers own material
AUSTRALIApart of the Creative Commons international initiative
• Museum of the tropics, Amsterdam
• “Wikipedia loves Art/NL” project - invited public to photograph collections and upload to Wikicommons
Ingang Tropenmuseum by GerardM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ingang_Tropenmuseum.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropenmuseum
Tropenmuseum
AUSTRALIApart of the Creative Commons international initiative
It was an easy way to…engage new audiences…[and] spread the stories from the collection…In the end I think more people will visit the museum and look online.
– Susanne Ton, Manager of Multimedia Production, Tropenmuseum
http://www.youtube.com/user/wikimedianl#play/all/uploads-all/0/4aPatvL5kvo
Images being used in articles and seen by audiences that have no connection to museum – with link back
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropenmuseum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_karbala http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iran_Battle_of_Karbala_19th_century.jpg
Click and Flick • individuals to contribute to PictureAustralia by adding to Flickr groups• encourages CC licensing• 55,000 photos contributed since 2006• Now 100 remixes through Re-Picture Australia project
AUSTRALIApart of the Creative Commons international initiative
Y.A.P.O.M.A.S. by :/ www.flickr.com/photos/angelltsang/30211494/
The Argyle Stairs 1930 to 2008 by Rossco http://www.flickr.com/photos/45144498@N00/2510877137/
Something about the dog on the tuckerbox by Broken Simulacra http://www.flickr.com/photos/broken_simulacra/91355505/
Creative Commons licensing “encourages content contributors to think in terms of a librarian keeping in mind the public benefit of providing maximum access to content as part of Australia’s national collection.” – Fiona Hooton, Picture Australia
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Australia_%27Click_and_Flick%27
Thanks
www.ip.qut.edu.au
creativecommons.org
wiki.creativecommons.org/casestudies
creativecommons.org.au
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