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1 | About the Open GLAM Survey | |||
2 | This is an ongoing informal survey of open access policies in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM) sector. It examines how GLAMs make data – whether digital objects, metadata or text – available for re-use. The Survey is intended to be a starting point for people who want to find and use open collections or data. It also serves as a resource for GLAMs and other organisations exploring open access data and policy development. The Survey covers instances of open data (e.g., digital collections and other data) that GLAMs make available on their websites and/or external platforms such as Github, Europeana and Wikimedia Commons. Only GLAMs that have released open access data are eligible for inclusion. The Survey's working definition of 'open' follows Open Knowledge International's Open Definition and its spectrum of conformant legal tools permitting commercial reuse. It also considers data published under the No Known Copyright statement, developed by https://rightsstatements.org, and the Flickr Commons 'no known copyright restrictions' statement to be eligible (though the Survey's authors acknowledge the opacity of this statement type). Many GLAMs publish some – but not all – of their eligible data open access (e.g. for specific projects or outputs) whilst maintaining non-open access policies for most of their data. The Open GLAM Survey was created in March 2018 by Douglas McCarthy and Dr Andrea Wallace and its data are licensed under the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. It is an ongoing piece of research. Feedback, corrections and suggestions are very welcome. To suggest a change or addition to the data, please fill out this Google Form, contact Douglas and Andrea on Twitter, or email OpenGLAMSurvey@gmail.com. You can read more about the survey and its development on Douglas McCarthy’s website. Disclaimer: information in the spreadsheet has been jointly authored for public reference and research purposes. While every effort is made to see that no inaccurate or misleading data appears herein, the authors and contributors accept no liability whatsoever for the consequences of any inaccurate or misleading data, opinions, or statements. Last updated: May 2024. | |||
3 | Column | Column name | Description | Related survey visualisation (if present) |
4 | A | Country | The Country in which the Institution is located. | Instances by Country |
5 | B | Continent | The Continent in which the Country is located. | Instances by Continent |
6 | C | Institution Name | The official name of the Institution in the primary native language of the Institution. | |
7 | D | Institution Name in English | The official name of the Institution, machine translated into English for accessibility and data verification purposes. Please note that some names may not have direct English translations, so the provided translations are approximate and reflect the closest meanings. | |
8 | E | Institution Type | The category assigned to the Institution by the survey authors, for the purpose of data analysis. The current available Institution Types are as follows: Aggregator; Archive; Corporation; Gallery; Government; Library; Museum; Private collection; Research institution; University; Visitor attraction; Other. | |
9 | F | Institution Website | The primary website of the Institution. | |
10 | G | Institution Wikidata | The Institution's Q item in Wikidata (where present). | |
11 | H | Date of 1st Open Access Instance | The year of the Institution's first instance of open access (OA) practice, if known. This data is recorded in year format (e.g. 2020) and additional information is added as a cell note, when available. | |
12 | I | Citation of 1st Open Access Instance | Citation to online information regarding the Institution's first open access instance, if available. Citations of GLAMs' own communications (e.g. a press release) are preferred, but citations of third party websites and announcements are also included. All citations are saved to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and the relevant URLs are listed here. | |
13 | J | Open Access Scope | A defined list that includes: Some eligible data; All eligible data. Assignments in this column represent a holistic assessment of the policy approach and are made based on the entry’s own policies or statements. ‘Some eligible data’ indicates some, but not all, of eligible data is published open access (e.g., for specific projects, platforms or outputs) while maintaining non-open access policies for most eligible data. ‘All eligible data’ indicates data is published using open licences and/or public domain tools as a matter of policy. | Open access scope |
14 | K | Rights Policy or Terms Of Use | Link to the policy or website terms of use where open access and any rights statements are explained. GLAM policy statements are often conflicting, subject to change and do not expressly disclaim copyright. To provide some clarity for survey users, the ‘Online Policy’ field links to the most relevant rights policy and terms of use information provided on GLAMs’ websites (when available). These pages are often generic and lacking in detail so 'caveat emptor'. | |
15 | L | IP Policy for ICH and TCE | Link to the policy explaining how intellectual property is viewed and/or managed in relation to intangible cultural heritage (ICE), traditional knowledge (TK) and traditional cultural expressions (TCE), where made public. | |
16 | M | Rights Statement For Metadata | The open licence or rights statement that the Institution applies to the collections metadata (when stated) on its own platforms, or the open licence for the Institution's collections metadata on other platforms (for example, Europeana, which stipulates that Institutions' metadata must be provided under CC0). A defined list that includes Creative Commons open licences and tools, RightsStatements.org labels, bespoke or regional statements and free text statements made by entries. The current list is as follows: CC0; CC BY; CC BY-SA; Common Cultural Heritage (with conditions); DAC Open Access Images; Free access and use; High Resolution Files (All Uses Allowed Including Commercial Uses); Licence Ouverte; Modellicentie voor gratis hergebruik; No copyright; No Copyright - United States; No known copyright; No Known Copyright (RightsStatements.org); No known copyright restrictions; Open Access; Open Government Data Licence 1.0; Open Government Licence; Open Use; Public Domain; Public Domain in Canada; Public Domain Mark; Public Domain (with conditions). | |
17 | N | Total Open Data Volume | The total volume of digital objects made available on open access terms by the Institution. This column totals the Open Data Volume listed in the adjacent columns to the right. | |
18 | O | Open Data Platform | A digital platform where the Institution publishes open access digital collections. | Open data platforms |
19 | P | Open Data Source | The URL of the Institution's open access collection, linking as directly as possible to the open data. When Institutions have published open access collections on multiple platforms, the relevant information is captured in the adjacent Open Data Platform, Open Data Source and Open Data Volume columns. | |
20 | Q | Open Data Volume | The volume of digital objects that the Institution has published on the Open Data Platform. When the Open Data Platform does not state the exact Open Data Volume, an estimation may be given by the survey authors or contributors. | |
21 | R | Rights Statement for Open Data | A defined list that includes Creative Commons open licences and tools, RightsStatements.org labels, bespoke or regional statements and free text statements made by entries. The current list is as follows: CC0; CC BY; CC BY-SA; Common Cultural Heritage (with conditions); DAC Open Access Images; Free access and use; High Resolution Files (All Uses Allowed Including Commercial Uses); Licence Ouverte; Modellicentie voor gratis hergebruik; No copyright; No Copyright - United States; No known copyright; No Known Copyright (RightsStatements.org); No known copyright restrictions; Open Access; Open Government Data Licence 1.0; Open Government Licence; Open Use; Public Domain; Public Domain in Canada; Public Domain Mark; Public Domain (with conditions). | |
22 | S | Equivalent Standard Statement (if using a non-standard statement) | Where the Primary Rights Statement for Digital Surrogates of Public Domain Objects is non-standard, bespoke or regional, the equivalent standard is indicated only to enable comparisons. | |
23 | T | Rights Statement Compliance | A defined list of categories indicating whether the rights statement is: 1: Public domain compliant; 2: Copyright disclaimer; 3: Open compliant. The category assigned indicates whether the statement used complies the premise that public domain materials should remain in the public domain after digitization. 1: Public domain compliant - No new rights are claimed in the data released. Users are ensured that any public domain materials remain in the public domain in digital form (e.g. CCO and Public Domain Mark). 2: Copyright disclaimer - No new rights are claimed in the data released and no assertion is made that the data is conclusively in the public domain (e.g. No Known Copyright). The onus is on the user to ensure reuse is legally compliant. 3: Open compliant - New rights are claimed in the data released and the licence applied aligns with international definitions for 'open' that permit commercial reuse (e.g. CC BY, CC BY-SA). | Rights statement compliance |
24 | U-AF | When institutions publish open data on more than one platform, additional data on is entered in these columns, following the format of columns O-R. | ||
25 | AG | API | The URL of an Application Programming Interface (API) that gives access to the Institution's open access collections data. | |
26 | AH | Github | The URL of the Institution's GitHub, a code hosting platform and source of data repositories. | |
27 | AI | Entry Fee In Domestic Currency | The standard entrance fee that the Institution charges for adults. Information about entrance fees for non-local adults, where available, are stored in cell notes. Please note that this information is only collected for Galleries and Museums. | |
28 | AJ | Currency ISO Code | The relevant primary Currency ISO Code is listed here to support conversion to Euro in the adjacent column. | |
29 | AK | Converted Admission Fee € | An automated currency conversion to Euro, based on the Entry Fee in Domestic Currency and Currency ISO Code data. | |
30 | Supplementary fields created to enable data visualisations | |||
31 | AM | Consolidated Standard and Non-Standard Rights Statements | To enable the creation of the 'Open licences and rights statements' chart, in this column non-standard rights statements are conformed to their closest standard equivalent statement. | |
32 | AN | Institution Wikidata Q item | A plain text rendering of the Institution's Q item in Wikidata (where present), to enable Lookup functions. | Open licences and rights statements |