OpenGLAM at SXSWi

That time of year is upon us again where our social media channels get full up with chatter about SXSWi. This year you’ll also be hearing a lot from our camp as we prepare for our slot on the Culture Hack panel.

I will be speaking alongside colleagues Antoine Isaac, Scientific Coordinator for Europeana and Emily Gore, Director of Content at the Digital Public Library of America and Rachel Frick, Program Director at the CLIR Digital Library Federation about the sate of openness in the cultural heritage domain and where we go to next in order to build a vibrant cultural commons free for everyone to re-use and enjoy.

As we’ve recently kicked-off OpenGLAM activity in the US, I’m very keen to talk to people in the States already working in this space and those who just want to get involved and help us build the tools and communities that will make a difference.

On the panel, we’ll be looking at questions such as:

• How are cultural heritage institutions dealing with the questions of copyright and open data licensing
• What are people building with the content, data, and metadata that cultural heritage institutions are publishing
• Is this shift in engaging the public in institutional collections leading to new revenue opportunities either for the institutions or the general economy?
• How can my institution make our collections available as Open Data, who can we work with, and how do we find help?
• If I want to build a new app or project with data or content from my local library or museum, what’s the best way to approach them and encourage them to let me do it?

All-in-all, it’s set to be a fascinating panel, do make it down if you can and grab me to say hi. I’ll be Tweeting from @OpenGLAM on the day, so do get in touch via that handle.

More info on the panel itself can be found here.