Grassroots & Ground Up Open GLAM: Building more sustainable networks, pathways and infrastructures to open GLAM participation

该项目的重点是通过在较小的收藏品持有者和较小的数据聚集者之间开展基层运动，从头开始支持公开的GLAM参与。为此，它扩大了GLAM-E实验室的直接表示模式，以在航权许可、数字化、在线发布和数据摄取等方面支持新的合作伙伴，同时还开发和测试发布标准，以改进较小聚合器对这些新开放的数据集的识别和核实。这项工作的所有发现将被简化为一个工具包，以帮助其他人建立自己的基层运动和地方网络，以支持在项目生命周期后公开参与GLAM。较小的藏品持有者越来越有兴趣建立成功的开放获取方案，以提高其藏品的知名度，并探索因更多的公众参与而产生的新商业模式。像Wikimedia Commons这样的流行平台和数据聚合器提供了低成本的出版选择，可以提高知名度和参与度，但它们也会在开放GLAM参与方面产生自己的障碍。拥有定制数据模型的较大和资源充足的数据聚合器需要更高水平的专业知识来准备收藏数据以供摄取；同时，更适合资源较少组织发布的数据的较小数据聚合器通常认为发布到Wikimedia Commons上的收藏是高风险的，因为它们无法核实遗产数据集的权利状态。其结果是，较小的组织错失了一个巨大的机会，可以将收藏以CC0的形式发布到Wikimedia Commons，使较小的聚合器和其他参与者能够使用Wikimedia的开放API来摄取数据，从而提高它们的可查找性、可重用性和整体潜力。GLAM-E实验室将通过直接与美国和英国的较小收藏持有者和聚合器合作来应对这些挑战，以改善开放GLAM的跨境格局和数字基础设施。项目活动最初将侧重于在德文郡和西南地区资源较少的组织中组织一场基层运动，以支持CC0数字收藏和数据的标准化，并将其发布到Wikimedia Commons和西南收藏资源探索者。与此同时，该实验室将与较小的聚合器合作，制定标准化的程序和政策，以识别这些组织和其他较小组织的数字收藏并进行登录。到项目结束时，实验室将在一个开放获取工具包中公布所有新的发现和过程，以支持其他人开发自己的本地化开放GLAM活动和支持网络。该项目的更广泛影响将是扩大公众对数字化公有领域藏品的获取，同时改善开放许可的藏品和可供在线重复使用的数据的整体多样性。GLAM-E实验室将英国和美国的从业者、学者、藏品持有者和数据聚集者聚集在一起，对这些新的路径、网络和基础设施进行建模和测试，以实现更可持续的开放GLAM参与。通过这项新工作，实验室将探索和满足较小藏品持有者、平台和数据聚集者的需求，导致CC0数字资产和数据的多样化格局，可供不同范围的本地和全球受众重复使用。该项目将通过实验室的网站、研讨会、活动和出版物传播研究成果。

This project focuses on supporting open GLAM participation from the ground up and through a grassroots campaign among smaller collections holders and smaller data aggregators. It does so by expanding The GLAM-E Lab's direct representation model to support new partners on aspects of navigating rights clearance, digitisation, online publication and data ingestion, while also developing and testing standards for publication to improve the identification and verification of these newly-opened datasets by smaller aggregators. All findings from this work will be reduced to a toolkit to help others build their own grassroots campaigns and local networks that can support open GLAM participation beyond the life of the project. Smaller collections holders are increasingly interested in building successful open access programmes that improve the visibility of their collections and explore the new business models that flow from greater public engagement. Popular platforms, like Wikimedia Commons, and data aggregators offer low-cost publication options that can improve visibility and engagement, but they also generate their own hurdles to open GLAM participation. Larger and well-resourced data aggregators with bespoke data models require higher levels expertise to prepare collections data for ingestion; meanwhile, smaller data aggregators that are a better fit for data published by less-well resourced organisations often view collections published to Wikimedia Commons as high-risk due to their inability to verify the rights status of the heritage datasets. The result is a huge missed opportunity for smaller organisations to publish collections as CC0 to Wikimedia Commons in a way that enables smaller aggregators and other actors to ingest data using Wikimedia's open API, thereby improving their findability, reusability and overall potential.The GLAM-E Lab will meet these challenges by working directly with smaller collections holders and aggregators in the US and UK to improve the cross-border landscape and digital infrastructures of open GLAM. Project activities will initially focus on the organisation of a grassroots campaign among less well-resourced organisations in the Devon and South West Area to support the standardisation and publication of CC0 digital collections and data to Wikimedia Commons and the South West Collections Explorer. At the same time, The Lab will collaborate with smaller aggregators to develop standardised procedures and policies for identifying and onboarding the digital collections of these and other smaller organisations. By the end of the project, The Lab will publish all new findings and processes in an open access toolkit to support others in developing their own localised open GLAM campaigns and support networks. The project's wider impact will be to expand public access to digitised public domain collections while improving the overall diversity of openly-licensed collections and data available for reuse online. The GLAM-E Lab brings together UK and US practitioners, academics, collections holders and data aggregators to model and test these new pathways, networks and infrastructures to more sustainable open GLAM participation. Through this new work, The Lab will explore and bridge the needs of smaller collections holders, platforms and data aggregators, leading to a diverse landscape of CC0 digital assets and data available for reuse by a diverse range of local and global audiences. The project will disseminate the research findings via the Lab's website, workshops, events and publications.