Common Challenges,Common Solutions

Working Together

Towards Openness

Merete SanderhoffProject researcher

merete.sanderhoff@smk.dk@MSanderhoff

My motto:

“The preservation, transmission, and advancement of knowledge in the digital age are promoted by the unencumbered use and reuse of digitized content for research, teaching, learning, and creative activities.”

Memo on open access to digital representations of works in the public domain from museum, library, and archive collections at Yale University

May 2011

http://odai.yale.edu/sites/default/files/OpenAccessLAMSFinal.pdf

”…what does it mean that there are millions of images on the web that we are not allowed to touch while at the same time there are other millions of images that we can actually use?”

Peter Leth, Creative Commons For All (in Danish only), 2011

@peterleth1

http://www.creativecommons.dk/?p=537

What are common challenges?

• Rapid technological change

• Silo culture – high maintenance

• Charging for digitized images

• Relevance to new generations of users

What could be common solutions?

• Working together in networks/hubs

• Using shared/existing platforms

• Providing free and easy access to digitized images and data

• Listening to and engaging users

"Like other museum institutions SMK is used to being seen as a gatekeeper of cultural heritage. But our collections do not belong to us. They belong to the public. Free access ensures that our collections continue to be relevant to users now and in the future.

Our motivation for sharing digitized images freely is to allow users to contribute their knowledge and co-create culture. In this way, SMK wishes to be a catalyst for the users' creativity." 

Karsten Ohrt, Director, SMK

http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/statens-museum-for-kunst/

Access is not =

to sharing

Michael Edson, Director of Web and New MediaSmithsonian Institution

@mpedson

http://www.smk.dk/en/explore-the-art/the-royal-collections/free-download-of-art-works/

http://www.smk.dk/en/explore-the-art/the-royal-collections/european-art-1300-1800/highlights/andrea-mantegna-christ-as-the-suffering-redeemer/

http://smithsonian-webstrategy.wikispaces.com/Public+Domain+and+Image+Sales+References

http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/USMuseum_SimonTanner.pdf

Some data

Some data

April 16 – September 13, 2012

• The page about SMK’s free images have been viewed 12,269 times

• In comparison smk.dk has had 261,323 visitors in total

• The Creative Commons Attribution page has been viewed 2,519 times

• In comparison the ordinary copyright page has been viewed 602 times

Some data

• The zip file in its entirety downloaded approx 320 times in April

• Bandwidth shows that >2 TB were downloaded, that’s ~ 10.000 individual image downloads (average size 200 MB)

• Since then, divided into three zip files (5 GB too big) which have been downloaded – Zip 1: 124 times– Zip 2: 50 times– Zip 3: 42 times

Some data

• The individual images have been viewed 2,966 times (May 7-Sept 13)

• Averagely, users view 2,2 images and spend 5½ minutes on the download pages

• In total 6,521 pages have been viewed

• 1,860 Danes have viewed the free images • 757 from other countries, mostly the US, Germany, and

Russia

Most downloaded #1

http://www.smk.dk/en/explore-the-art/the-royal-collections/danish-and-nordic-art-1750-1900/highlights/vilhelm-hammershoei-interior-in-strandgade-sunlight-on-the-floor/

Vilhelm Hammershøi,Interior in Strandgade, Sunlight on the Floor, 1901

Most downloaded #2

http://www.smk.dk/en/explore-the-art/the-royal-collections/danish-and-nordic-art-1750-1900/highlights/peter-christian-skovgaard-a-beech-wood-in-may-near/

Peter Christian Skovgaard, A Beech Wood in May near Iselingen Manor, Zealand, 1857

Most downloaded #3

Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. 1472-1553), Melancholy, 1532

http://www.smk.dk/en/explore-the-art/the-royal-collections/european-art-1300-1800/highlights/lucas-cranach-the-elder-melancholy/

Mai Misfeldt

• Art critic at Danish national newspaper

• Educator

This artwork has been in the Public Domain for 389 years

Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. 1472-1553), Melancholy, 1532

http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/SK-A-2344/het-melkmeisje

”Our primary mission is to ”tell the truth.”

Lizzy Jongma, data manager

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

@LizzyJongma

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johannes_Vermeer_-_De_melkmeid.jpg

Pushing out poor copies

Enriching public knowledge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Milkmaid_(Vermeer)

http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Maleri/158_highlights

3 principles

1. All Public Domain content is freely shareable and reusable under Creative Commons

2. We use an existing platform that users like instead of custom-building a new one

3. Target users take part in developing the experience and creating the content

• Artworks have individual #

• Comments are <140c

• All users are equal and have names and faces

• It is multilingual

• Comments lead to richer content

• The platform is dynamically updated and improved

How will it work? • Stand in front of an artwork in a museum

• Pull out your smartphone or tablet

• Scan a QR code or the artwork

• Scroll through a stream of brief comments and questions, open links to related images, texts, videos etc. (anyone can do this)

• Post a comment, question, add a link, photo, video etc. (you need to be a Twitter user to do this)

• Maybe you get a response – if you direct a question or comment to a museum tweep, you certainly will!

Objective

Objective

Inspire usersto look closer

at the artworks

Testing the concept

Paper prototyping

Follow up survey

Focus group discussion

http://www.riksutstallningar.se/content/spana/curating-och-delaktighet-ny-mobilplattform

Wanna join?

Merete SanderhoffProject researcher

merete.sanderhoff@smk.dk@MSanderhoff

MoreAbout SMK’s free charter collection• CC GLAM wiki:

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark

Made available on these platforms• Dansk Kulturarv:http://www.danskkulturarv.dk/ • Google Art Project: http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/statens-museum-for-kunst/ • Flickr• Pinterest• ARTstor

Use cases of free charter collection• Lær IT: http://www.it-didaktisk.dk/?p=1037 • Hack4dk – Danish cultural heritage hackathon: http://hack4dk.tumblr.com/ • Collaboration with the Cph Metro: http://www.m.dk/#!/om+metroen/metrobyggeriet/byens+hegn • Renaissance Art Pillows and Room Dividers:

http://www.bendixen-mikael.com/?id=blog&news=14081 // http://www.bendixen-mikael.com/?id=blog&news=14080

• Ikono TV: http://ikono.org/ • Arkitektens Forlag Blog: http://arkfo.dk/da/blog/landskabet-under-forvandling-ii

http://www.formidlingsnet.dk/sharing-is-caring-2012-program