Join OpenGLAM at the upcoming OKFestival!
The Open Knowledge Festival 2014 is a global, inclusive and participatory open data and open knowledge event, taking place on 15-17 July in Berlin. Organised by the Open Knowledge Foundation and owned, in the broadest sense, by the open community, it brings together over 1,000 people from more than 60 countries to share their skills and experiences and work together to build the very tools and partnerships that will further the power of openness as a positive force for change. In addition, the festival will be a fantastic opportunity to celebrate all that the open movement has achieved so far, and an opportunity to plan and shape the landscape ahead.
OpenGLAM will be hosting a number of sessions during OKFestival, as well as a dedicated OpenGLAM fringe event on the morning prior to the festival start. The full programme is now available here: come and join us in Berlin for one of these Open Culture sessions!
In this workshop you can ignite a spark of life into Public Domain images by turning them into animated GIFs (which are playful and easy to make without prior experience, and provide a way to move away from still pictures as static items). Finished animated GIFs will be uploaded to a blog and projected large on a screen: a selection will be featured on The Public Domain Review.
The Public Domain is the material from which society derives knowledge and fashions new cultural works. Having a healthy and thriving Public Domain is essential to the social and economic well-being of society. However, during the act of digitisation, organisations or the person performing the act of digitising sometimes claims copyright on the digitised work, effectively taking it out of the public domain. European copyright law does not give a clear answer if this is allowed or not as this notion of ‘originality’ is hard to define and leads to a lot of discussions. During this workshop we want to explore the this further and provide a series of guidelines for cultural heritage institutions when they start a digitisation program. The workshop will bring together representatives from cultural heritage institutions, legal experts and open data advocates to address the topic and come to a common approach how to deal with this issue.
The current prototype of the French public domain calculator is a great tool that helps to identify works in the public domain. This session will focus on how to internationalize this initiative around the Public Domain Calculator.
The OpenGLAM Benchmark survey is an online survey that will be conducted among heritage institutions throughout the world in the second half of 2014. The purpose of the study is to measure the state of advancement in OpenGLAM (digitization, inter-organisational cooperation involving the exchange of metadata, open data, crowdsourcing, linked data) in a given country, and to identify the main challenges and obstacles with regard to the promotion of open cultural data and free access to knowledge. In addition, the international benchmark study provides international comparisons, allowing each country to see where it stands compared to other countries. Come to find out more and get involved in future efforts.
To view the full OKFestival programme, and create your personal schedule, check out http://okfestival2014.sched.org/.