Shifting minds in the culture sector: towards open data in practice
In 2018 the ‘Strategy for culture in the digital age’ was published by the Flemish minister of culture. The culture sector is exploring open data to improve access of their collections for diverse groups of users. PACKED has researched, developed and published data, tools and strategies using open source and open data as a lever for building a sustainable digital memory. Aside from sharing our projects, results and peeking at the new challenges that lie ahead, we provide a platform for two of our partners to showcase projects which were set up in collaboration with PACKED:
-The King Baudouin Foundation collaborated with PACKED in order to open up their collections on Wikimedia plaftorms
-The Flemish Art Collection presents the Datahub and Arthub projects, which gives the public access to the visual arts in Flanders and facilitates (re-)use
Alina Saenko studied archive management at Vrije Universiteit Brussels and cultural management at the University of Antwerp. Within PACKED, center of expertise for digital heritage, she currently works on projects around open cultural data, persistent identification and Wikimedia platforms.
Project Officer
PACKED
Sam Donvil studied archaeology and culture and development studies at K.U. Leuven university. In the past he worked at the Open Access department of the K.U Leuven university library and currently works at PACKED - center of expertise for digital heritage on open cultural data publication and crowdsourcing projects with the Wikimedia community. Next to that, he is involved in the annual museum-hackathon Museomix.
Project Officer
PACKED
Olivier studied Art History at UGent followed by a postgraduate in Curatorial Studies (KASK/Ugent). He currently works at PACKED - Center of expertise for digital heritage on open cultural data publication with the Wikimedia community. In the past months he aided the King Baudouin Foundation in publicising their collection(s) as Linked Open Data via Wikidata. In March he’ll be working on the Wikimedia Pilot: Structured Data on Commons, focussing on the legacy of Wolfers.
Project Officer
King Baudouin Foundation
Digital data conservator
Flemish Art Collection
