THE DIGITAL MUSEUM AS PLATFORM

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1 THE DIGITAL MUSEUM AS PLATFORM Cultural Institutions, Libraries and Open Linked Data by GFII, Paris 2013 Jacob R. Wang, National Museum of

2 OUTLINE Preamble CASE Digital strategy // The switch from broadcast // #HACK4DK // Look ahead, act now! // Build a platform

3 The National Museum of Denmark Established employees 1 million hours 35 million Euro

4 The National Museum of Denmark Established million objects 2 million images 1 library

5 MISSION The National Museum embody and develop the prerequisites for everyone to be able to gain insight into cultural history

6 We re not in the MONEY-business We re in the VALUE-business! (RE)USE = VALUE Experience economy Education Cultural plurality

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8 Odense City Museums, 1998

9 1950s - Invented and developed 1990s - Commercially available 2000s - Exponential growth all over

10 We re here

11 NEW social, communication, learning, creation, sharing MECHANICS Graphics from Smithsonian Learning Model >> CLICK ME

12 SO WE RE MOVING From broadcast to dialogue From product to platform From analogue to digital

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15 HACKATHON A hackathon is an event in which computer programmers and others in the field of software development, like graphic designers, interface designers and project managers collaborate intensively on software projects. Wikipedia

16 Danish Agency for Culture National Museum of Denmark Royal Library of Denmark The State Archives We want to do a hackathon!! To push for more open data To have something cool built To get in touch with developers

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19 #HACK4DK KICKOFF October Ignite talks on open data/culture/source Videocamera = Youtube ;)

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25 10 PROTOTYPES YES Kulturarv Datafest Adopt a mound Near something Dead neighbours Image analysis of artworks Image mosaic/smashup Danebrosmænd SMK geoscraping Mapping artworks

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28 OUTCOMES? Documentation of #hack4dk 2012:

29 Hack-a-what?! Sounds interesting! FIRST CONTACT With developer communities in DK GREAT FUN Everybody had a blast! COOL PROJECTS Ideas and perspectives from outsiders GREAT MEDIA- COVERAGE

30 This hackathon is a good example that ( ) cultural institutions have embraced the digital challenge. In my view, culture has great potential to become a much larger force in the Danish society, and free access to culture data is a big step in the right direction. - Uffe Elbæk, Minister of Culture

31 OUTCOMES for us Deployment of Natmus API (beta) Documentation of Royal Library API Deployment of CPH City Archive API (alpha) Real-world application of DK Heritage Agency API Raised awareness of the value/potential of open data

32 PREPARATION ½ year easy + 2 weeks intensive planning Budget: 4 x 650 Euro Euro from Microsoft Tools: Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, G+ Hangouts, Google Docs

33 #HACK4DK st weekend in October (not confirmed) MORE DATA, MORE TIME, MORE FOCUS MORE DATA, MORE TIME, MORE FOCUS NEW PARTICIPANTS NEW PARTICIPANTS Institutions Institutions Developers Developers Designers (GFX, UX, UI) Designers (GFX, UX, UI) Concept designers Concept designers Storytellers Storytellers Teachers Teachers Editors Editors MORE THEMES MORE THEMES Gaming Gaming Culture Culture Turism Turism Borgerservice Borgerservice Education Education

34 MISSION The National Museum embody and develop the prerequisites for everyone to be able to gain insight into cultural history

35 We can t do that alone!!! MISSION The National Museum embody and develop the prerequisites for everyone to be able to gain insight into cultural history

36 Creating mashable content MISSION The National Museum embody and develop the prerequisites for everyone to be able to gain insight into cultural history Via 3rd party mashups

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38 DIGITAL HERITAGE STRATEGY Principles, tactics, trends and perspectives

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40 Further Social Local Mobile Web 2.0 Semantic Web, Singularity, The future Built for the early web + broadcast Photo:

41 THE STRATEGIST I will predict the future, and use this to carefully plan our work in the years to come!

42 Strategi & Vision

43 WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD? Relevant trends and disruptive tools (Further SoLoMo, Semantic Web, Natural interfaces, Image recognition, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence)

44 WHAT CAN WE DO NOW? Pick principles and tactics + do stuff (Government 2.0, Linked Open Data, Copyright Policy, Infrastructure development, Digitisation, Metadata production, Devops, Lean Startup methodologies)

45 THE DIGITAL NATIONAL MUSEUM 1 strategy, 1 project, 3 themes Openess, Accessibility, Transparency Digital platform development Digital literacy We re putting the pedal to the metal!

46 THE DIGITAL NATIONAL MUSEUM Full digitisation and accessibility Infrastructure development Collection crowdsourcing Open Source Tools Community Focus

47 SUMMARY Supplement broadcast with dialogue Build open and shareable ressources and tools Support local action, Engage with users Look ahead act now!

48 Thank you!