Hello MCG,
I am one of the engineers working on Mediachain.
Mediachain
<https://medium.com/mine-labs/introducing-mediachain-a696f8fd2035#.414x0afc4>
is an open source, blockchain based metadata registry that enables
institutions and developers to easily publish, use, link and extend media
datasets, while maintaining attribution for contributors and creative works.
Instead of releasing metadata as static data dumps
<https://github.com/NYPL-publicdomain/data-and-utilities> or requiring
developers to use disparate siloed APIs
<http://museum-api.pbworks.com/w/page/21933420/Museum%C2%A0APIs>,
Mediachain functions as a shared data layer where institutions can
verifiably publish data. Once ingested into the datastore, developers can
easily reuse and extend it without obscuring its source.
The goal of Mediachain is to lower the barrier to publishing and consuming
open data, while preserving data attribution. Datasets are no longer
siloed, but integrated with one another so each new entrant has an
opportunity to securely enrich the existing corpus.
I was inspired by Mia Ridge's awesome article from 2013
<http://www.museum-id.com/idea-detail.asp?id=387> to reach out to this
group to ask:
- What is the state of open cultural data three years later in 2016?
- For technologists with experience at GLAMs, how can current open data
strategies and practices be improved to enable richer collaboration between
institutions and a digital audience?
We are looking to pilot Mediachain with a few institutions and their open
data and I'd love to talk to anyone interested. Here is more detail on the
Mediachain protocol
<https://medium.com/mine-labs/mediachain-483f49cbe37a#.vdksi4onb>.
-Denis
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