2019:Advocacy/Public Domain and Profitability

Advocacy/Public Domain and Profitability

Public Domain and Profitability

Description

A growing number of GLAM institutions and organisations have decided to provide open access to their digitised collections online. However, the quality of access and institutional policies differ across the world. Firstly, some GLAMs choose their own websites or tools as a primary and preferred source for those seeking their content, some contribute to bigger platforms or cooperate with Wikimedia and contribute to Wikimedia Commons. Among GLAMs that already decided to share their collections openly online, we can still find those who - for example - decide to charge users for access to high resolution images. To support our policy efforts aimed at improving access to open heritage collections worldwide and design informed and evidence-based training & cooperation with GLAMs, Wikimedia’s Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU, in collaboration with Centrum Cyfrowe, conducted a study on museums’ business models across Europe.

This session will discuss the results of the study as well as the process of collecting data and challenges we have faced on the way. It will focus on:

• presenting existing business models of museums across Europe identified within the study,
• discussing the main challenges museums and other GLAMs face when they try to create a business model for their own,
• identifying main challenges faced while collecting such data & analysing it,
• identifying main barriers within institutions that prevent them from fully embracing openness.

Relationship to the theme

This session will address the conference theme — Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals — in the following manner:

Improving the quality of open access to heritage content results in more innovative projects & products that might be based on heritage resources and data (SDG 8, 9), contributes to quality of education and enables more OER to be created by reusing GLAMs’ collections worldwide (SDG 4, 5, 10).

Session outcomes

At the end of the session, the following will have been achieved:

Improving the quality of open access to heritage content results in more innovative projects & products that might be based on heritage resources and data (SDG 8, 9), contributes to quality of education and enables more OER to be created by reusing GLAMs’ collections worldwide (SDG 4, 5, 10).

Session leader(s)

Aleksandra Janus is an openGLAM specialist and researcher, board member at Centrum Cyfrowe and head of Open Culture Studio - a creative, open tech lab dedicated to support GLAMs.

Douglas McCarthy co-leads an international survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector; he is a leading advocate for Open GLAM through his role as Collections Manager at Europeana and through his personal research work.

• Aleksandra Janus
• Douglas McCarthy

Usernames

• Wikimedia username 1
• Wikimedia username 2

Affiliation/country (if any)

• Centrum Cyfrowe, Poland
• Europeana, The Netherlands

E-mail contact (optional)

• ajanus@centrumcyfrowe.pl

Session type

Each Space at Wikimania 2019 will have specific format requests. The program design prioritises submissions which are future-oriented and directly engage the audience. The format of this submission is a:

• Lightning talk

Requirements

The session will work best with these conditions:

• Room: Any type of room with projector

• Audience: anywhere between 10 and 50, those working with GLAM institutions or involved in policy/advocacy work related to the subject

• Recording: allowed