OPEN DATA Challenges & Opportunities INSIGHT project - Launch event MIM Brussels - 9 November 2017 Saskia Scheltjens Head of the Research Services Department * *
OUTLINE Rijksmuseum Rijksmuseum data Open Rijksmuseum data
National Museum of Art and History Mission: Connect People with Art and History *
A LOT OF DATA * Research Services Department Mission: Connect People with Art and History through data
small HISTORY OF DATA & COLLECTION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
De bedreigde zwaan, Jan Asselijn, ca. 1650 http://hdl.handle.net/10934/rm0001.collect.5829 History 1800 - Nationale Kunstgalerij 1808 Koninklijk Museum 1815 Rijks Museum (+ Print Room) 1875 Design by PJH Cuypers 1885 Opening Rijksmuseum building 2004 Start renovation & restoration 2013 Reopening Physical Collection (2017) - Collection of ~1,200,000 objects -> Prints & Drawings ~700.000 objects - Library collection ~450.000 volumes - Current artworks on display 8.526 (7%) Facts and Figures
Library as THE 19th century place for art and research
Reading Room (Cuypers Library Hall), 1928 Study Room (Prints & Drawings), 1928 The world of connaisseurs
PROFESSIONALISATION Formal collection registration & policies for library & object collection cataloging 1981 Standardized library cataloging (ISBD) 1988 Implementation of MARDOC rules for collection registration (-> SPECTRUM)
Ben Strik 2013 - https://www.facebook.com/vpro/videos/10156926675263986 The Challenges of Metadata
ORGANISATIONAL pre-2007 Integrated responsabilities within curatorial departments regarding information / data management
ORGANISATIONAL Separated responsabilities between curatorial & supporting departments 2007 Collection Management Conservation 2016 Research Services
AUTOMATION & REGISTRATION 1980 First computer in the museum 1989 First modem, terminal & automated library system (TinLib) 1990 Collection registration in automated collection management systems (Quixis 1990-1998; Adlib 1998-now)
Olivetti M24 (1989) Geert-Jan Koot with first modem & terminal Rijksmuseum (1989)
REGISTRATION & DIGITIZATION 2007 - Mass digitization complete RMA collection (Print Room/Collection) Online Project
Registration through acquisition
SCALING UP - NETWORK POWER 1999 First Rijksmuseum website 2002 First online library catalogue (OPAC) + first open data exports via Z39.50 > SRU 2005 CHIP project NWO/CATCH reseach program (personalization using semantic data)
Part of the CHIP data model
Museum renovation/restoration, closed 2003-2013
Re-opening of the museum (2013)
AND DURING THAT TIME THE INTERNET HAPPENED EXPLODED
The Yellow Milkmaid Syndrome
Regaining control by sharing
Knowledge needs to be shared Taco Dibbits General Director Rijksmuseum Core of current de facto Open Data Policy
SCALING UP - NETWORK POWER Open collection data policy Collection Rijksstudio - discovery interface (2013) API s -> Europeana (2013), Library SRU -> AdamNet (2003); VKK (2004); WORLDCAT (2012); ADGC (2014)
EVOLUTION OPEN DATA POLICIES RMA 2011 CC BY (Attribution only) https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0 2013 CC0 Waiver https://creativecommons.org/ publicdomain/zero/1.0
Collection discovery interface (Q42/Fabrique) https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/api
API Key -> controlled access
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/api/rijksmuseumoai-api-instructions-for-use - data format: DC
http://rijksmuseum.github.io/ (documentation) https://github.com/rijksmuseum (code)
JSON Elements Collection: The complete online collection of the Rijksmuseum with all public data Content pages: Static pages as used on the website. Usersets: Sets from Rijksstudio users. Calendar: Calendar and availability of expositions, tours, etc.
https://datahub.io/nl/dataset/rijksmuseum http://accurator.nl COMMIT SealincMedia Project (2015-2016) + first tests with triple store RMA
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/vogelen Photo by Romaine CC0 1.0 - COMMIT SealincMedia Project (2015-2016) + first public crowd-sourcing events
Floor Koeleman (C2DH) RMA data visualization project (2017)
RESEARCH SERVICES CHALLENGES To name but a few. Overcome death by silo Interdisciplinary co-operation New additional information services Renewed sustainable data architecture Extended open data strategy Interoperable, networked (semantic), open
Rijksmuseum Library (2004) cop. Candida Höfer Rijksmuseum Library (2013) From a closed library to an open collection data space
QUESTIONS? Saskia Scheltjens s.scheltjens@rijksmuseum.nl http://www.slideshare.net/saschel/presentations @saschel This presentation uses images with an open license, except otherwise indicated by * Contact information
THANK YOU Parts of this presentation are based upon work of and talks with Taco Dibbits Geert-Jan Koot Trilce Navarete Lora Aroyo Lizzy Jongma Chris Dijkshoorn and many more