Finnish National Gallery Open data policy and practice
Kulturrådet, Oslo, 6.2.2014
Riitta Ojanperä Director, Collection management Finnish National Gallery
Finnish National Gallery collections
The organization: three museums, the archives and library Ateneum Art Museum Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Sinebrychoff Art Museum
In the collections: • 37000 artworks • arhival collections: artists’ letters, photographs, videos etc. • objects
FNG collections management and collections on the net Opening Metadata of metadata opened on the run
Metadata opened in 2013
FNG COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT DATABASE , includes mostly artworks
FNG OPEN DATA: First step 2012
Issue raised by an Open GLAM and Wikimedia activist ⇒ Open Knowledge Festival in Helsinki September 2012
⇒ Finnish National Gallery Archival Collections opened a digitalised collection of glas negatives + metadata on its own website, licence CC BY-SA 3.0
⇒ Finnish artworks photographed by Daniel Nyblin at the turn of the 20th century
⇒ data presented at one the Open Knowledge Festival sessions
Data available on the FNG archival collections’ website: http://www.lahteilla.fi/nyblin-data/
Image not snown because of copywrigt restrictions FNG OPEN DATA: Next step 2013 Initiative from Kiasma • contacts and collaboration with the Open Knowledge Finland associoation and the Finnish OpenGLAM network • Wikipedia projects • inspiration: Apps4Finland competition fall 2013
FNG OPEN DATA: Next step 2013
WHAT WAS OPENED
• Metadata of all the 37000 artwoks in the FNG collections • Data from the collections management database • Project based on FNG’s ”The Art Collections” website • Licence CC0 http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/api/v2support/docs/#/overview
Linked: http://museum- api.pbworks.com/w/page/21933420/Museum%C2%A0APIs
What happened Spring of 2013: Issue raised by Kiasma, decision Opening in the end of by the director Sept 2013 general of the Information delivered FNG, opening by Kiasma: press limited to the release, blog, social metadata, licence Media, Open GLAM CC0 network
Workshop with invited Realization of the Users at Kiasma 23.10: API by GripStudios Ideas and developing Interactive / Aki plans from the users Kivelä
Questions and notices by the workshop participants in Oct 2013:
How clear is the data? Not very, markings of eg dates and measures are varying.
Why is the artist only one reference to each work? More information about the artists requested. More data about the artists in progress.
It would be important to have the images too. Licencing is a problem. Some kind of pilots might be a way to proceed.
Remember accessibility also in the context of language and semantics! What is an ”API”, ”metadata” or ”ontology”. Also: what is ”a collection”?
FNG OPEN DATA statistics in the end of January 2014
Nyblin photos + metadata no statistics available
Collection metadata 45 Api keys have been asked by 4.2.2014 Data files have been downloaded 103 times
Questions asked in the FNG:
To whom is the project addressed? Accessibility and openess of open data? Who are the audiences of open data now and in the future?
Shared Opened is not Used Known What is needed
Examples of how To develop the quality of the data has been the data and used, to increase it in number, following feed-back and needs of the users
Collaboration with users and with To create pilots other providers of In order to proceed open data towards more open licences Happening now: Funding for the FNG from the Finnish Ministry of Culture for 2014
1) To continue with collection digitization in the framework of the Nationa Digital Library 2) To publish more digitized material in Finna 3) To stengthening FNG’s open knowledge policy and practice
Project managed and coordinated by FNG’s new Collection Management department => collaboration and sharing the resource with all the 3 museums
What next
Action plan being processed. Some options: To share the Nyblin photos in Flickr or / and Wikimedia ? To add new and richer information to the open data resource? To establish a crowdsourcing project? To get a new idea?
New training, sharing knowledge ”Open data master course”
From testing and pilots to more strategic planning and action