Keynote presentation at Coding da Vinci Westfalen Ruhrgebiet 2019 awards ceremony, University of Dortmund, Germany

1. MASH IT! MOVE IT!
DISCOVER IT! IMPROVE IT!

2. MASH IT! MOVE IT!
DISCOVER IT! IMPROVE IT!

3. You, me and Open GLAM
A presentation by Douglas McCarthy @CultureDoug
Europeana Foundation, CC BY 4.0
Preisverleihung, Ausstellung der Projekte und Siegerehrung
Coding da Vinci Westfalen-Ruhrgebiet 2019
Cinema Dortmunder U
6 December 2019

5. What does open
mean to you?

6. Hello, Europeana!

7. Open at Europeana
1.Europe at Work

8. ● Participatory events & sharing stories
● Industrial heritage thematic collection
● 28 blogs + 18 galleries
● Showcasing 966 cultural heritage
objects from 220 CHIs in 33 countries –
so far
● Join in and share your story!
SHARING EUROPE’S INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE
AND STORIES OF WORKING LIVES
Europe at Work

9. COLLECTION DAYS ALL AROUND EUROPE
Europe at Work

10. Open at Europeana
2. Europeana 1914-18
Visions of War

11. Europeana 1914-1918
37,000+ UGC digital objects so far

12. Visions of War

13. Visions of War

14. Visions of War

15. Open at Europeana
3. Women in Culture
and Tech

16. Women’s season (March 2019)

17. Women’s season: Pioneers

18. Women’s season: Instagram
● Takeover of National Museum of Women in the Arts
○ Featuring #5WomenArtists from cultural institutions
across Europe
○ Pledge to support women in arts

19. DailyArt partnership
● 4 paintings in DailyArt App (700,000 users)
● 4 guest articles in DailyArt Magazine
Traffic peaks on Pioneers Sundays (3, 10, 17, 24 March) when the paintings were shared in the app, linking to the exhibition.

20. Europeana Colouring Book
● 4th edition
● Theme - Women in History
● Promoted during #ColorOurCollection Campaign and
the Women’s Day event at Atria, Amsterdam

21. Women in Culture and Tech

22. GIF IT UP 2019

23. What is the
global picture of
Open GLAM today?

24. The Open GLAM survey examines how GLAMs make open
access data – whether digital objects, metadata or text –
available for re-use.
‘Survey of GLAM open
access policy and
practice’ (2018-)
by Douglas McCarthy &
Dr. Andrea Wallace
bit.ly/OpenGLAMsurvey

30. Open GLAM in Deutschland

31. Open GLAM in Deutschland

32. Open GLAM in Deutschland

33. #OpenGLAM #NOpenGLAM

35. ‘Photo © The National
Gallery, London’

36. Reproductions of
Public Domain Works
Should Remain in the
Public Domain

37. GLAM mission statements

38. GLAM mission
GLAM data & image policies

39. ‘Under the false pretext
of opening to all the
freedom of access to the
images, it is in fact an
organized plunder of the
images of our patrimony
for purely private and
commercial uses that
will be put in place.’

40. Open GLAM – empowering citizens

41. Open GLAM – empowering citizens

42. Museo del Prado timeline

45. GLAM ethics

46. Open GLAM Principles
‘Cultural heritage institutions
need more and better
guidance to apply Open
Access policies to collections’
● Share your feedback
● Join the OpenGLAM mailing list
● Join the monthly call
● Join #cc-openglam on Slack

47. Join the
conversation
#OpenGLAM

48. ● Connects us with culture and the world
● Empowers citizens and democracy
● Encourages creativity
● Supports GLAM missions
Open GLAM

49. ‘Only in books written in
earlier times did she
sometimes think she
found an idea of what it
might be like to be alive.’
W.G. Sebald (1944-2001)

50. Vielen dank!
E: douglas.mccarthy@europeana.eu
@CultureDoug
linkedin.com/in/douglaskmccarthy