THE OPEN BOOK
Commons’ session. These insights were presented to about 40 representatives from Finnish cultural heritage institutions the next day during the OpenGLAM workshop. This day eventually led to the spin off ‘AvoinGLAM’ (Avoin = ‘open’ in Finnish), which will focus on opening up local heritage. Finally, we finished the day with a great keynote speech by Michael Edson of the Smithsonian Institution. Special thanks Sam Leon—Community Coordinator of the Open Knowledge Foundation Maarten Brinkerink—Project worker at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and one of the founders of Open Cultuur Data Sanna Marttila—Doctor of Arts candidate in New Media at Aalto University, School of Art and Design at the Media Lab in Helsinki and now leading AvoinGLAM
Joris Pekel has been working for the Open Knowledge Foundation since 2012 and works specifically with open cultural heritage data. He is coordinator of the openGLAM network that is working to open up content and data held by GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). More info about the topic stream can be found on openglam.org
Copyright Sebastian Verburg
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