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Open Rijksmuseum and Beyond
1. Public Domain Day 2018 - Constant vwz & PACKED
Muntpunt – Brussels – 26/5/2018
Saskia Scheltjens
Head Research Services Department
OPEN
RIJKSMUSEUM
and beyond
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2. Early Open Data Champion
in Cultural Heritage World
MOTIVATION INVITATION
3. • Institution
• Open Data : When, Why & How
• Lessons Learned
• Future Developments
OUTLINE
5. + 2.000.000 visitors every year (since 2013)
~1.000.000 objects
~ 450.000 publications
8.555 artworks on display 8,5%
632.953 registered objects online 63 %
362.745 digital objects online 36 %
Core Collection: Dutch Golden Age (Rembrandt!)
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FACTS & FIGURES (2018)
6. ORGANISATION (2018)
607 staff in total
Departments involved
with collection data
1. Research Services
-> management & creation
2. Collections Management
-> creation & digitization
3. IT -> systems
4. Communication &
Marketing
-> discovery interface
7. 1800 - ‘Nationale Kunstgalerij’
1815 – Rijksmuseum
1885 – New building /
Designed by P. Cuypers
2004 – Museum closed
for renovation &
restoration (10 years!)
2013 – Reopening
Debedreigdezwaan,JanAsselijn,ca.1650http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.5829
HISTORY
8. 1800 - ‘Nationale Kunstgalerij’
1815 – Rijksmuseum
1885 – New building /
Designed by P. Cuypers
2004 – Museum closed
for renovation &
restoration (10 years!)
2013 – Reopening
HISTORY
9. We connect people, art and history
Our collection belongs to everyone
• Simple
• Personal
• Authentic
• Qualitative
• Innovative
Closely connected to first ever digital strategy (2012)
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MISSION & CORE VALUES
10. 2011
Open Cultuur Data hackathon
Release of 111.000 images with a CC-BY licence & API
2012
Launch of new website & collection discovery interface
Rijksstudio (Q42, Fabrique) + digital strategy (website)
Release of (almost) all collection data & available high
resolution images with a CC0 license
2013
Reopening of the Rijksmuseum
Extension of open available collection data via API’s
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OPEN DATA : WHEN
25. • Dare to be open
• Holistic approach
• Agile development
• Metadata about metadata
• Take responsibility
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LESSONS LEARNED
26. New policies
More data
• more (collection) data > data centric !
• datamining, semantic data, visual search > AI
Network
• selective partnerships > the power of the network
• decentralization & interoperability
Society
• incorporate stories from outside
• a museum is a platform for dialog > collaboration &
participation
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FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
27. CONTACT INFORMATION *
QUESTIONS ?
Saskia Scheltjens
s.scheltjens@rijksmuseum.nl
http://www.slideshare.net/saschel/presentations
@saschel
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