Since its debut in 2001, the free-access and free-content online encyclopedia Wikipedia has become a huge cultural force, filled with millions of articles in 250 different languages. Accessed some 500 million times per moth, and boasting over 26 million registered "citizen editor," Wikipedia would seem to be the ultimate in democratic knowledge-sharing. That is, until [...]
If you've happened to visit the Cooper Hewitt since its recent renovation, you'll have noticed a complete transformation of the visitor experience into a participatory digital experience that puts museum items right into the palm of the hand. At the center of this considerable technical challenge was Micah Walter of the museum's digital team. He [...]
In this first installment of a two-part interview, Cooper Hewitt's Micah Walter discusses the value of making a museum's data more "open" and available for public use. Opening Museum Data Micah explains that the Cooper Hewitt decided several years ago to take the bold step of opening up its collection data via API and licensing [...]
[http://openglam.org] Lieke Ploeger, OpenGLAM I am with the Open Knowledge Foundation, which is an organization working on promoting open data in a variety of fields. I work for one of the working groups for Open Knowledge which is called OpenGLAM, which is what I will be talking about mainly for best practices. Open Knowledge set up these working groups as a way [...]
