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Community

and the Cultural Commons

Susanna Ånäs • Open Access Week 2024 • CC BY-SA 4.0

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What is community anyhow?

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GLAM partners

Heritage communities

Our local teams

Global advocacy

We are part of the same community of open access to cultural heritage. It is represented here in the middle as the wikipedia globe around which the planets orbit. We should replace wikipedia with everything open access.

Our local teams

We create activities in our communities which can be local as well as international. These are our peers, our team mates, our organizations, volunteer networks and projects.

In Finland, we have our local open culture and open knowledge community. Open knowledge communities have shrunk considerably in the last 10 years.

Advocacy networks (global and local)

We are connected to our advocacy networks both locally and internationally. These networks span organizational boundaries and they are united by the underlying ideals and goals. In our work we

Our partners are part of our community of interest

Heritage communities

The communities we work with invite us to their activities. We share their hospitality and try to help safeguard their culture.

Further communities and interdependencies, sharing the interest in the cultural commons.

Centering the commons

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Commons

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Knowledge

Commons

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Digital

Commons

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Cultural

Commons

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Cultural Commons

and networks of care

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~ Digital Public Goods� and Infrastructure

Commons

#culture2030goal

UN

open-source software

open standards

open data

open AI systems

open content collections

To make culture a sustainable development goal.

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EU

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Collaborate with the public and communities. Protect their information from exploitation when sharing, explore for example using Traditional Knowledge labels.

Promote education, digital literacy and democracy: Make collections tools for learning, research, and public discourse.

Safeguard the integrity of the collections from unverified AI-generated information – maintain record of data provenance, by whom or what the collection data has been changed.

Do not let protection divert from prioritizing Open Access to cultural heritage. Celebrate Public Domain.

Open Access

GLAMs × communities

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Provide opportunities for communities to share and celebrate their culture online: tangible, intangible and digital, including languages.

Learn carefully about ethical sharing principles and practices, for example CARE principles and Free, prior and informed consent.

Advise the heritage communities on how they can control the sovereignty of their data and heritage online and caution if they can’t.

Care

Our teams ×�heritage communities

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Look for new types of impact. Indirect benefits from Open Access can outweigh direct revenue.

Team up locally and globally to stand up for culture and the cultural commons as part of commitment to public benefit.

Create networks of care, old and new configurations of people and resources to take shared responsibility for sites, collections or works.

Align with creators and creator communities, look for revenue opportunities without jeopardizing Open Access principles for open content.

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Links

UN

EU

Indigenous / Community knowledge protection

Networks of care

Wikimedia platforms are a great precedent
Annet Dekker: Networks of Care, Monoskop, 2022.
Adopt a Monument, European Heritage Strategy for the 21st Century, Council of Europe

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Images

Symbols for Wikipedia 20 by by Jasmina El Bouamraoui and Karabo Poppy Moletsane, Wikimedia Foundation, CC0

360° view on the Pallas University of Applied Sciences library

A social network visualization, by brewbooks, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Children of the Banna tribe in Ethiopia with traditional body painting, playing on wooden stilts, by WAVRIK, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Images

virtual class by I Putu Dicky Adi Pranatha from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Noun_Project_Telescope_icon_1469837.svg

knowledge by Wan Ikhsan from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)

protection by dodol tolol from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)

Data Center by dodol tolol from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)

Badminton by farra nugraha from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)

Adinkra by Alvaro Cabrera from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)

Takoyaki by Cahya Kurniawan from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)