TOPIC 06: Open Culture
How can we build a global cultural commons that enables the widest possible re-use and access to our shared cultural heritage? These sessions will address how we can strengthen the existing networks of individuals, organisations and institutions working towards a global cultural commons and explore tools and methods for enabling re-use of open cultural heritage content and data on the web.
Main Speakers:
- Jill Cousins, Executive Director, Europeana Foundation
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Sarah Stierch, Wikimedia Foundation
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Maarten Brinkerink, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Programme Advisors:
- Merete Sanderhoff, Statens Museum for Kunst Copenhagen
- Joris Pekel, Europeana Foundation
- Sam Leon, Project Manager, DM2E / Community Coordinator of the OpenGLAM initiative, Open Knowledge Foundation
Session 1 Building a Cultural Commons
Wednesday 18 September, 11:45 – 13:00 @ Main Stage Room 2
Moderator: Merete Sanderhoff, Statens Museum for Kunst Copenhagen
Talks:
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#AllezCulture: creating a new commons, Jill Cousins, Executive Director, Europeana Foundation
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Small museum collections and open data – Nicole Beale, Web Science and Archaeology, University of Southampton
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Open Culture at the Heart of the University: Libraries as Cultural Commons and Cafe – Anna Gold, California Polytechnic University
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Feedback session from Monday OpenGLAM Switzerland Workshop – Maarten Brinkerink, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Sarah Stierch, Wikimedia Foundation & Beat Estermann, Research Associate, Bern University of Applied Sciences/ E-Government Institute
Session 2 Open Humanities Awards Ceremony
Wednesday 18th September, 13:00 – 13:15 @ Main Stage Room 2
Speaker: Bernhard Haslhofer, Open Humanities Award Winner and Postdoc Research Associate, University of Vienna
Additional Satellite Events on Thursday 19 September
In addition to the main programme we are holding workshops on the post-conference day – Thursday 19 September which you are invited to join.
Session A KNOWeSCAPE: Data mining & curation – Workshop
Thursday 19 September, 10:00 – 17:00 @ Université de Genève, Uni Pignon campus, Room P_S05
Facilitator: Christophe Guéret, Dutch data archiving institute
Session B Re:Public Domain Remix + Walk – Workshop
Thursday 19 September, 10:00 – 16:00 @ KulturBüro, Rue de Berne 63, 1201 Genève
Co-organizers: Primavera De Filippi, Open Knowledge Foundation France, Mario Purkathofer and Daniel Boos, Dock18
