1. OPEN CULTURE DATA:
BOTTUM -UP OPEN HERITAGE
OKFestival 2012
Helsinki, 20 September 2012
t: @OpenCultuurData | #opencultuurdata

2. WHY
Represent the cultural heritage sector within
the growing open data movement.
To connect open data enthusiast from within
the sector to join forces
Connect with hackers and designers

3. WHAT
• Make more data (collection data etc.) available as open culture
data
• Make valuable applications through which we can participate in
arts and culture

4. FASE 1: EXPERIMENT
• Ad-hoc start: September 2011
• Contacting heritage professionals to release
datasets
• Writing ‘datablogs’
• 1 hackathon, 8 datasets in November 2011
• Starting point: 5 rules for Open Cultuur Data

5. defining open culture data
1. Open Culture Data is knowledge and information of cultural
institutions, organisations or initiatives about their collections
and/or works

6. defining open culture data
2. Everyone can consult, use, spread and re-use Open Culture
Data through an open license or by making it available in the
public domain

7. defining open culture data
3. Open Culture Data is available in a digital (standard) format
that makes re-use possible

8. defining open culture data
4. The structure and possible applications of Open Culture
Data are documented, for instance in a ‘Datablog’

9. defining open culture data
5. The provider of the Open
Culture Data is prepared to
answer questions about the
data from interested parties and
respects the efforts the open
data community invests in
developing new applications

10. specific conditions
• CC0 for metadata
• PDM, CC-BY of CC-BY-SA for content
• Open standards
• Open documentation & communication

11. FASE 1: 5 DATA PROVIDERS
• Amsterdam Museum
• Eye Film Instituut Nederland
• Nationaal Archief
• Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld & Geluid
(Open Beelden, Wiki, GTAA)
• Rijksmuseum
• Rijksmonumenten,info (ab-c media)

12. HACKATHON | HACK DE OVERHEID | WORKSHOP
Photo: Breyten Ernsting. CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nl/)

13. HACKATHON | HACK DE OVERHEID | HACKEN!
Photo: Breyten Ernsting. CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nl/)

14. RESULTS APPS FOR NL
• 13 apps, 8 submissions (46 in total)
• Gold – Vistory (based on Open Images)
• Education prize - Rijksmonumenten.info
• Encouragement prize -
ConnectedCollection

15. RE-USING OPEN CULTURE DATA
#1 making collections searchable

16. APPS: ETIENNE POSTHUMUS, ARKY VES ICONCLASS BROWSER

17. APPS: WOUT VAN WEZEL, CONNECTED COLLECTION

18. APPS: RONALD KLIP, RIJKSMUSEUM TIMELINE

19. APPS: HAY KRANEN, THE VIRTUAL RIJKSMUSEUM

20. APPS: HANS VAN DEN BERG/ ARJAN DEN BOER (AB-C MEDIA), FACES OF
THE RIJKSMUSEUM

21. RE-USING OPEN CULTURE DATA
#2 games

22. APPS: RONALD KLIP, RIJKS-QUIZ

23. APPS: NICO WITTEMAN, RIJKSMUSEUM QUIZ

24. RE-USING OPEN CULTURE DATA
#3 data enrichment

25. APPS: TERRY VAN ELK, RIJKSMONUMENTEN.NL

26. APPS: JAAP BLOM (SOUND & VISION), ENRICHING OPEN IMAGES

27. RE-USING OPEN CULTURE DATA
#4 social media platforms

28. APPS: HANS NOUWENS, OPEN ARCHIVE TWITTERSTREAMS

29. RE-USING OPEN CULTURE DATA
#5 mobile applications & tablets

30. APPS: KARS ALFRINK, CHRIS EIDOF, HISTORICAL MAPS FOR IPAD

31. APPS: HANS VAN DEN BERG / ARJAN DEN BOER (AB-C MEDIA),
RIJKSMONUMENTEN.INFO

32. APPS: JONATHAN CARTER / PAUL MANWARING (GLIMWORM IT), VISTORY

33. FASE 2: MASTER CLASS, GROWTH OF THE NETWORK, COMPETITION
• 2012: support from Images for the Future and
Creative Commons Netherlands
• April 2012: master classes
• Juni 2012: start competition / hackathon 1
• Oktober 2012, Rotterdam: hackathon 2
• Begin 2013: Open Culture Data Awards

34. FASE 2: MASTER CLASS OPEN DATA | CREATIVE COMMONS
ARCHIEVEN MUSEA
Archief Eemland Buurtmuseum Leiden Noord
Gemeentearchief Rotterdam
Centraal Museum
Groene Hart Archieven
Nationaal Archief Fries Museum / Keramiekmuseum
Regionaal Archief Leiden Princessehof
Joods Historisch Museum
BIBLIOTHEKEN Maritiem Digitaal/Visserijmuseum Zoutkamp
Wageningen UR bibliotheek Teylers Museum
SECTORINSTITUTEN KENNISCENTRA/-INSTITUTEN
Kunstfactor
Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei
NCB Naturalis
NIOD
Theater Instituut Nederland

35. DATASETS (20 and counting…)

36. THE NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SOUND & VISION:
SOUND RECORDINGS
• 2.100 historical sound recordings
• Creative Commons – BY-SA
• 1950-1990
• Studio quality
• Geodata
• SoundCloud API
• Growing collection thanks to crowdsourcing
• More information:
http://www.opencultuurdata.nl/wiki/het-geluid-van-nederland/
Contact person:
Maarten Brinkerink
– mbrinkerink@beeldengeluid.nl
– @mbrinkerink (Twitter)

37. THE NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SOUND & VISION:
HISTORICAL VIDEO’S
• 1.700 video’s / 1920-1980 / Polygoon
• Metadata: e.g. title, topic,
description, author, date, language,
persons, location, rights, format
• openbeelden.nl/api: OAI-PMH / XML
• License video’s: CC-BY-SA (for the most part)
• Licence metadata: CC0
• Different formats: e.g. OGV, MP4, WEBM (hi + lo)
• More info: www.opencultuurdata.nl => datasets
Contact person
Maarten Brinkerink
- mbrinkerink@beeldengeluid.nl
- @mbrinkerink (Twitter)

38. THE NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SOUND & VISION:
WIKI
• 12.000 photos and >1000 lemma’s about the collections
of Sound and Vision
• Metadata photos: title, description
• Height, width, mime type
• Lemma’s: Persons, Productions, Genres, Decennia, Topics
metadata e.g.: title, description, date, genre, length, media
• MediaWiki API: XML (max. 500 records)
• License photos and data: CC-BY-SA (few exceptions)
• More info: www.opencultuurdata.nl => datasets
Contact person
Carlien Booij
- cbooij@beeldengeluid.nl

39. EYE: DUTCH FEATURE FILM
Provider EYE Film Institute Netherlands
Dataset Dutch feature films 1912-1940
Format ODS-fileContaining Title, summary
and metadata films
More information http://www.eyefilm.nl/opendata
Contact person
Irene Haan
- irenehaan@eyefilm.nl
titel | samenvatting | regisseur | productiejaar| premièredatum | productie-maatschappij | categorie | acteur |
producent | distributeur (oorspronkelijk) | vertoningstheater | buitenlandse titels | alternatieve titel | kleur |
bron | originele lengte | geluid | camera | decor | montage | componist | formaat | scenarioschrijver | taal |
speelduur | keuringslengte | keuringsdatum | akten | geografische namen | genre

40. VISSERIJMUSEUM ZOUTKAMP: MARITIME DATA
• 562 collection-objects Visserijmuseum Zoutkamp (part of Maritime Digital)
• Ship models, engines, fishing gear, dredged materials, …
• Metadata (CC0):
creator, title, description, image, keyword
• Images (CC BY): low resolution, JPG
• Adlib API
• Datablog: http://www.opencultuurdata.nl/wiki/maritiem-digitaal
Contact person
Willy Bakker
- Twitter: @Visserijmuseum
- E-mail: willy@visserijmuseum.com

41. RIJKSMUSEUM API: 19 TH . CENTURY MASTER PAINTERS
www.rijksmuseum.nl/API
 111.000 objects including The Night Watch!
Paintings, prints of the great masters of the Golden Age to Medieval
Biblical anonymous paintings, ceramics, furniture, silverware and
dollhouses miniatures etc.
Object scriptions: Dublin Core
Images: JPEG
License: CC0
Contact persons:
Lizzy Jongma & Inge Giesbers
api@rijksmuseum.nl

42. AB-C MEDIA: DUTCH NATIONAL MONUMENTS
• Sources:
– National Monuments Dataset – Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed
– Wikipedia: lists with and articles about Dutch national monuments
– Wikimedia Commons: photos of national monuments, incl. Wiki Loves
Monuments
– Text books series ‘Monumenten in Nederland’, per section matched
with address
– Image bank Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed
– Other examples via erfgoed.mobi
• http://api.rijksmonumenten.info
Contact person
Arjan den Boer (ab-c media)
- @arjandenboer (Twitter)

43. AMSTERDAM MUSEUM: COLLECTION DATA
• More than 70.000 objects
paintings, drawings, prints, medals, statues, pictures, silver, furniture,
books, costumes, textiles, clocks, ceramics, furniture etc.
• Metadata and images
• Dynamic dataset (weekly update)
• Three points of access:
• Adlib API (XML output)
• OAI-PMH (XML, Dublin Core)
• Linked Open Data (RDF, EDM)
• www.amsterdammuseum.nl/open-data
Contact person
Judith van Gent
- j.vangent@amsterdammuseum.nl

44. FASHION COLLECTIOS OF 3 MUSEUMS
Central Museum: 8.500 records, 650 images
•XML
•4th century until now
Fries Museum: 17.000 records, 2.100 images
•XML
•1750-1950
Amsterdam Museum: 5.500 records
• Adlib API
•17th century unil now
More information: www.opencultuurdata.nl/datasets

45. NIOD: IMAGE BANK WWII
• NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en
Genocidestudies and 30 other heritage institutions
with pecial WWII-collections
• 100.000+ records (metadata)
• OAI-PMH
• CC0
• More information:
http://www.opencultuurdata.nl/wiki/niod-instituut-voor-
oorlogs-holocaust-en-genocidestudies/
Contact person
Edwin Klijn
- e.klijn@niod.knaw.nl

46. REGIONAAL ARCHIEF LEIDEN:
WWII IMAGE BANK
• Dataset of more than 6.000 records with multiple images
• Photos – illegal press – forgeries - diaries etc.
• Collective story of the city of Leiden in WWII
• Complementary to the WWII dataset of NIOD
• Metadata CC-0 – Content CC-BY-SA
Access via open search api
http://www.archiefleiden.nl/api/opensearch/description-document
Dataformaat: xml
Contact person
Walther Hasselo
- w.hasselo@leiden.nl

47. NATIONAAL COMITÉ: WAR MONUMENTS
• Database war monuments
• Information, background history and photos of more than 3.500 monuments
• Metadata available under CC0
• Xml datadump available via:
http://www.4en5mei.nl/herinneren/oorlogsmonumenten/achtergronden/xml_
oorlogsmonumenten/
Contact person
Rutger van Krieken
- Rutger.Krieken@4en5mei.nl

48. REGIONAAL ARCHIEF NIJMEGEN: LIBERATORS BEFORE THE CAMERA LENS
• 684 portrait pictures of the allies who liberated the city of
Nijmegen
• 1944-1954
• Creative Commons – BY-SA
• Images: JPEG
• Flickr API
More info:
Datablog Open Cultuur Data
Weblog Huis van de Nijmeegse geschiedenis
www.flickr.com/regionaalarchiefnijmegen
Contact person:
Wouter Daemen
- w.daemen@nijmegen.nl
- @wouterdaemen (Twitter)

49. NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE NETHERLANDS:
ANEFO COLLECTIE PERSFOTO’S
• Photo archive of 140.000 images of press agency Anefo (1959 - 1989)
• Cross-section of Dutch social, political and cultural life
• Accessible via date, keyword and description
• Black/white photos
• Datadump (OAI-PMH) in XML
• Download via www.gahetna.nl/opendata
• JPEG (1280 x 1280)
• Images under CC-BY-SA
• Metadata under CC0
Contact person
Tim de Haan
- tim.de.haan@nationaalarchief.nl
- @timmietovenaar (Twitter)

50. NATIONAL ARCHIVE OF THE NETHERLANDS:
HISTORISCAL MAPS
• 4. VEL Collection Foreign Maps Leupe, 16th – 19th century
• 2832 inventory numbers
– EAD
– XML
– Description
– Period
– ‘Location
• 477 maps
– OAI-PMH
– Scans (JPEG)
– Description
– Period
– ‘Location’
Contact person
Tim de Haan
- tim.de.haan@nationaalarchief.nl
- @timmietovenaar (Twitter)

51. ARCHIEF EEMLAND: HISTORICAL MAPS
• Collection of 2.000 maps and design drawings (1553 ca.-1985)
• Municipal archives Amersfoort, Baarn, Leusden, Eemnes, Renswoude,
waterschap Vallei en Eem
• Open Search API: http://gam.pictura-dp.nl/api/opensearch/description-
document
• Dublin Core for metadata
• Different sizes: 150x150, 500x500, 1500x1500
• Content: CC-BY-SA
• Metadata: CC0
More info:
www.opencultuurdata.nl/wiki/archief-eemland-2
Contact person:
Tessa van Santen
- archiefeemland@amersfoort.nl

52. GROENE HART ARCHIEVEN: HISTORICAL MAPS
• Collection of maps and plans (before 1800) of the city of Gouda and
surroundings
• Regional archives Midden-Holland (Gouda), Rijnlands-Midden (Alphen a/d
Rijn)
• Txt and csv files for download, 300 dpi
• Ca. 1500 map descriptions (metadata), CC0
• Ca. 80 images (content) in Public Domain
More information
www.opencultuurdata.nl/wiki/groene-hart-archieven-
historische-kaarten
Contact person
Tom Kuipers
- t.kuipers@groenehartarchieven.nl

53. ARTS HOLLAND: TOERISM DATA
• Waag Society, Nederlands
Uitburo, Dutch Board of
Tourism & Conventions
• NUB-data: 100.000 cultural
events in 45 genres, 1400
locations (CC0)
• API key at
http://dev.artsholland.com

54. BENEFITS OF OPEN CULTURE DATA
• Public mission
• Data enrichment
• Increasing relevance
• Increasing channels to end users
• Brand value
• Specific funding oppurtunities
• Discoverability
• New customers/ users
• Building expertise
• Desired spill-over effects/ creating new business
Source: Verwayen, Arnoldus & Kaufman 2011. The Problem of the Yellow
Milkmaid. Europeana White Paper no. 2.

55. Open Images is an open media platform
that offers online access to audiovisual
archive material to stimulate creative
reuse.
Built by Sound and Vision & Knowledgeland but
designed for participation by others.

56. Allowing (creative) reuse
• CC-BY-SA as preferred license
• 3,000 items from our ‘own’ collection
• Currently more than 2,000 items
available
• ‘Internet quality’
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57. Some numbers:
Estimated length of entire S&V archive: 800,000 h
Estimated length of ‘our’ newsreel collection: 500 h
Estimated length of material in Open Images: 55 h
So currently 11% of ‘our’ newsreel collection is
open through Open Images and 0,007% of our
entire archive.
26-09-12

64. • With about 1,500 items on Wikimedia Commons, more than 500
Dutch Wikipedia articles are using Open Images material
• But it is also being used on about 700 Wikipedia articles in 63
different languages
• All together these articles received more than 2,5 million views
on average each month
• Total viewed articles in 2011 about 15,5 million, already 20,8
in 2012
• The majority of views have shifted from the Dutch Wikipedia to
the English Wikipedia

65. THANKS!
Start your own open culture data network!
www.opencultuurdata.nl
mbrinkerink@beeldengeluid.nl
@OpenCultuurData
#opencultuurdata