Dear colleagues,
With apologies to those of you that will already have seen this news via
other channels, but I thought it was important to flag up via MCG the
announcement that the BBC has signed Memoranda of Understanding with the
Europeana Foundation, the Open Data Institute, the Open Knowledge
Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation to enable them to work together on
common priorities including the publication of open data and the
promotion of open standards in web development.
I think this is an important step in 'mainstreaming' the role of
cultural heritage organisations in publishing open data from their
collections, and provides an opportunity to bring collections-related
content and information to a far wider audience. For further
information, see the Telegraph article on the announcement
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10472903/BBC-throws-weight-b
ehind-open-data-movement.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&
utm_campaign=market+watch> .
If anyone on list is interested in sharing their collections information
as open data, and making it available to Europeana, the simplest way to
do this is through the Culture Grid, which is maintained by Knowledge
Integration Ltd on behalf of the Collections Trust.
Sharing data through the Culture Grid is simple - we can take structured
data and images from your collections system or you can access an online
platform and enter them directly yourself. We can then share them with
Europeana via a periodic harvest, as well as providing access to a range
of useful tools and widgets such as a collections search box generator
which you can host on your own website.
All data shared with Europeana is shared under the Europeana Data
Exchange Agreement,
<http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/data-exchange-agreement> which
permits Europeana to share it under a CC0 license. We are also currently
working with a group of software providers under the SPECTRUM Partners
Scheme to embed the capability to share data quickly and easily with
Europeana into your Collections Management Systems (as part of the
Europeana Inside project - www.europeanainside.eu).
We are always keen to hear from UK museums that want to open up and
share their collections information online, so do please drop me a line
at this email address if you would like to receive further information.
Yours sincerely,
Nick
Nick Poole
Chief Executive Officer
Collections Trust
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