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Hamburg x 2017

Sharing is Caring – Hamburg Extension

Opening up! Building Connectivity through Cultural Heritage

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Sharing is Caring is spreading to other countries and the first edition outside Denmark was held in Hamburg, Germany on 20/21 April 2017 at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg and at the University of Hamburg, Institute for Cultural Anthropology.

As digitization has become a major task for the cultural heritage sector, more and more cultural institutions are providing access to their digitized collections. But sharing is not only about creating online access, it is about sharing the authority to interpret the digitized assets and to create value by opening them up for reuse. How can opening up result in a mutual benefit for institutions as well as for their audiences and society? And what are the challenges on the way like copyright, institutional policies and not to forget the expectation of the users? The first edition of the Sharing is Caring conference outside Denmark, the Hamburg extension, will aim to answer these questions. We will hear from international experts, practitioners and artists about their research and experiences taking open access to a new level of participatory engagement.

Speakers

CARSTEN BROSDA

Journalism and political science studies at the University of Dortmund; PhD on “discursive journalism” in Dortmund University’s faculty of cultural studies

2000 – 2005: press officer and editor, later speechwriter and policy officer for the SPD party executive

2005 – 2009: head of the speeches, text and analysis unit at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs

2008 – 2009: deputy head of the management and planning staff at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs

2010 – 2011: head of the SPD party executive’s communication department

June 2011 – February 2016: head of the media office in Hamburg’s Senate Chancellery, from 2013 additionally the Senate’s authorised media representative

March 2016 – January 2017: State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture; State Secretary in the Senate Chancellery for the media and digitisation sectors

Minister of Culture and Head of the Ministry since February 2017

 

ANTJE SCHMIDT

Antje Schmidt is Head of Digital Cataloguing at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. Trained as an art historian and with a research background in museum history she is involved in digital cultural heritage projects for 10 years. With the launch of MKG Collection Online she has established a Public Domain Policy as part of the museums evolving digital strategy. She is elected Councillor of the Europeana Network Association, part of the workings group “Museum” in the Association for Digital Humanities in the German speaking Countries and serves on the Advisory Board for the Europeana Art Collections.

 

GERTRAUD KOCH

Gertraud Koch is Professor of European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology at Universität Hamburg. She is Vice Chair of the Expert Committee of Immaterial Cultural Heritage of the German Commission for UNESCO. Her publications address questions of cultural production in digital times and currently together with Samantha Lutz conceptual reflections on sustainability in culture.

 

SABINE SCHULZE

Prof. Dr. Sabine Schulze is the director of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg since 2008. Under her management the museum started a large-scale transformation process. It resulted not only in the modernization and remodelling of the permanent collections or the realization of a very diversified exhibition programme, but also in innovative digital projects like an iBeaon Tour or the MKG Collection Online. Realizing – as the first art museum in Germany – an open licensing policy had a great impact on the internal development of the institution and helps to perceive the museums’ audiences as collaborators instead of visitors.

 

KARIN GLASEMANN

Karin originally joined Nationalmuseum to ameliorate digital documentation and to streamline digitization routines. A major goal of documentation and digitization was soon to make the astonishing collection more accessible to the public. Karin is responsible for Nationalmuseum’s cooperation with Europeana and initiated several collaborations with Open Data initiatives such as Wikidata. Through pilot projects and collaborative initiatives, she minimized internal doubts and moved the institution towards a more open understanding of digital access to cultural heritage. Nationalmuseum effectuated an OpenGlam policy in October 2016 and provides large parts of the digitized collections through collaboration with Wikimedia Sweden.

Karin has a background as historian and is an elected member of the Europeana Members Council.

 

ANTJE THEISE

Antje holds a M.A. of Latin Philology and Classical Archeology (1999) and a M.A. of Library and Informations Science (2004). Before joining the the Hamburg State and University Library in 2005 as a Rare Book Librarian Antje has worked at the University of Greifswald, the Regional Library of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Schwerin, the Research Library of Gotha and at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. She is interested in all about special collections and Open Access to these, in addition she works about Latin poetry of the 16th/17th century, emblems, book history and possibilities to cataloging graphic prints, pictures, and art books.

 

NICOLE GRAF

Born 1970 raised in the Eastern part of Switzerland. Training as a librarian at the Swiss National Library, Studies in sociology, constitutional law and Swiss history at the University of Berne. Scientific assistant, scientific editorial assistant at the University of Berne und freelance film journalist for the “Berner Zeitung”. Since 2008 Head of the Image Archive of the ETH Library in Zürich. Co-editor of the Series “Pictorial Worlds. Images from the Image Archive of the ETH-Library” (Scheidegger & Spuess, Zürich, since 2011). Post graduate master studies in Image Science at the University of Krems (A).

 

MAREIKE SCHUMACHER

Mareike Schumacher is a research assistant and PhD candidate at the Humanities Department of the University of Hamburg. She works for the efoto-Hamburg project, where she is involved in the development of a mobile application which provides access to historical images of the city of Hamburg. During her Master Studies she assisted the foundation of the Association for Digital Humanities in the German speaking Countries in 2012. She is an active member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Narratology (ICN) and the Northern Narratology Network (triple*N). She studied Cultural Theory at the University of Lüneburg and Literature at the University of Hamburg and graduates in the fields of Digital Humanities and Narratology. Her PhD project focusses on the specification of the narratological categories of space and place in novels.

 

GEORG HOHMANN

Georg Hohmann is an information scientists, art historian, digital humanist and cultural computer scientists. He is the head of digitization at the Deutsches Museum in Munich and responsible for the digital transformation of the museum, its library and archive. As part of a comprehensive future initiative he leads a long-term project to document and digitize the collections of the Deutsches Museum.

After his master’s degree he was involved in various projects in the field of digital cultural heritage and was one of the founders of prometheus – the digital image archive for research and teaching. At the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg he worked at the department for museum informatics and was responsible for metadata, media management and web services. Georg is involved in several working groups and organisations like the german chapter of the European Association for Digital Humanities or the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model Special Interest Group.

The focus of his research is on the methods of knowledge representation and reasoning in the humanities. The application of Semantic Web technologies and ontologies play an important role. Furthermore he is interested in the digital transformation of memory institutions and its operational, social and methodological impact. And he loves well-structured metadata.

 

MAR DIXON

Mar is an international project manager, digital and social media specialist and is responsible for world trending social media campaigns like #AskACurator or #MuseumWeek on Twitter and #52Museums on Instagram.  She describes herself as an advocate or troublemaker “depending on what you need”.

Workshops

Session 1

CC Change Your Mind

Ellen Euler, Deputy Manager of Finances, Law, and Communication, German Digital Library/Barbara Fischer, Curator for Cultural Partnerships, Wikimedia Germany 

Reuse of Cultural Heritage: A Challenging Topic

Nora Al-Badri, Jan Nikolai Nelles, Artists, Berlin/Sarah Powell, Rights specialist at Auckland War Memorial Museum

Building Bridges between Cultural Institutions and Tech Communities: A Collaborative Handbook

Helene Hahn, Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e.V. /Philipp Geisler, Project Manager Coding da Vinci Nord 2016

How to Make the Most Out of It: Reuse and Content Production for Learning

Douglas McCarthy, Art & Photography Collections Manager, Europeana/Friederike Fankhänel, Education of Art and Design, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Session 2

Step by Step: Ways Towards Open Access

Karin Glasemann, Digital Coordinator, Nationalmuseum Sweden/Antje Theise, Rare Book Librarian, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg

Economies of Sharing Digitized Cultural Heritage

Georg Hohmann, Head of Digitization, Deutsches Museum, Munich/Gertraud Koch, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg/Mareike Schumacher, eFoto project, University of Hamburg

Sharing through Interaction. Socializing Media for Cultural Heritage Work

Mar Dixon, Cultural and Social Entrepreneur, United Kingdom

Sharing and Creating Knowledge: Crowdsourcing at the ETH Library in Zurich

Nicole Graf, Head of the Image Archive of the ETH library in Zurich

Atelier J. Hamann, Übungen an der Sprossenwand, around 1909, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (CC0 1.0 Publich Domain Dedication)

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Sharing is Caring 2015: Right to Remix?

Sharing is Caring: Right to Remix? was held 2 October 2015 in the DR Concert Hall in Copenhagen.

The DR Concert Hall. Photo by Lars Lundqvist, CC BY-NC-SA
The DR Concert Hall. Photo by Lars Lundqvist, CC BY-NC-SA

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#righttoremix

Sharing is Caring: Right to Remix? addressed the topic of remix culture and rights, and how the cultural heritage sector can deal with these in constructive and proactive ways.

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Through a versatile programme of international keynote speakers, keynotes in conversation and ignite sessions, the seminar focused on the amazing stuff the cultural sector can achieve when rethinking the logic of copyright in a digital age perspective. But we also discussed the hurdles to overcome and the fights to take, when we want to challenge the traditional notion of copyright.

The speakers delivered talks to open up fresh perspectives on how to work more flexibly with rights in the digital age, and what awesome potentials the cultural sector can tap into if we dare to change our existing mindsets and ways of working.

As a special feature this year, Sharing is Caring led directly up to the annual cultural heritage hackathon Hack4DK from Friday evening 2 October through Sunday 4 October.

Sharing is Caring 2012: Let’s get real!

The 2nd Sharing is Caring seminar was held 12 December 2012. The seminar focused on real life practical examples of the impact of sharing digitized collections, and the authority to use them.

“At the first Sharing is Caring in 2011, we set the agenda for why it is important that cultural heritage institutions open up their digitized assets to the public, and how it can be done. This year, let’s get real: Let’s learn from concrete cases at institutions who have taken radical steps to open up and collaborate with the public. What are the challenges when opening up and engaging with the public – not only traditional cultural heritage lovers, but also people we don’t normally reach: Non-users and users who might not fit into a Eurocentric definition of culture. What can we learn if we open up to authentic two-way dialogue that might demand us to change?
What are the hard facts behind the philanthropic vision of opening up? How do vision and reality interact? What do the actual usage, statistics, and data tell? What are the keys to success, and what are the biggest barriers that we must face when engaging with users and letting go of control over our assets.”

Keynotes in conversation: Shelley Bernstein and Jasper Visser. Photo by ODM, CC BY-SA
Keynotes in conversation: Shelley Bernstein and Jasper Visser. Photo by ODM, CC BY-SA

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Video archive of talks and debates at Sharing is Caring


Program

9.30: Coffee

10.00: Welcome by organizers Hans Henrik Appel, ODM and Merete Sanderhoff, SMK

10.15: Keynote #1: Shelley Bernstein, Chief of Technology, Brooklyn Museum

“New Methods to Foster Deep Engagement”

Shelley will talk about the Brooklyn Museum’s mission as a departure point for recent initiatives, including GO, a project where Brooklyn-based artists were asked to open their studios to the community, so visitors could nominate artists for inclusion in a group exhibition at the Museum. GO will be discussed in the context of other in-gallery and online projects that have been developed in recent years to explore alternative methods with the aim to engage museum audiences in deep ways.
11.00: Keynote #2: Jasper Visser, digital strategist, Inspired by Coffee

“The future of museums is about attitude (not technology)”

To say the digital revolution has changed the world is like opening a novel on a dark andstormy night, to paraphrase global strategist Pankaj Ghemawat. Yet it has. Audiences change, their expectations change, funding changes… Museums will have to adapt to this new reality and reinvent their role in society to remain relevant in years to come. However,this has more to do with dramatically changing their attitude than with an increased focus on the use of technology. In this high-paced presentation digital strategist Jasper Visser will summarize good practices for museums to remain relevant in the 21st century, drawing from his international experience as a consultant for cultural institutions. The presentation will present actionable lessons the audience can take home and apply in their institution.

11.45: Short break

12.00: Keynotes in conversation – Shelley Bernstein and Jasper Visser, moderated by Merete Sanderhoff

12.45: Lunch

13.30: Ignite session – one hour of inspiring cases, insights and discussions

Ellen Pettersson, Communicator of Digital Engagement, digidel.se: ”Digital literacy is a prerequisite for digital learning”
The Digidel 2013 campaign is for organizations, companies and authorities who work together with private citizens in raising the question of digital inclusion. Digidel’s aim is for everybody to have the knowledge, courage and understanding needed to use the Internet in everyday life. Using the Internet is a question of democracy when your life, services and companies go digital.

Lise Sattrup, Ph.D. fellow, RUC, & Nana Bernhardt, Head of Education and Development, SMK:
“Museums and cultural institutions as spaces for Cultural Citizenship”
Ten Danish museums and cultural institutions collaborate to examine how to create spaces for Cultural Citizenship. This has raised lots of questions, the most significant perhaps being how knowledge is produced. The project is based on Mikhail Bakhtin’s term ‘Multivoicedness’. We will give a few examples of how the involved museums invite users to participate and let their voices become part of the production of knowledge through co-creation, thus unfolding a potential for mutual learning processes both for users and museums.

Lene Krogh Jeppesen, Innovator & Knowledgesharer, Danish Ministry of Taxation: “@skattefar – using Twitter to communicate with citizens”
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”, Benjamin Franklin said, thus voicing a common attitude towards taxes: boring, dreaded and quite dusty. Add to that a modern bureaucracy and the image of an authority as a big black box, lots of red tape and complicated rules is complete. The Danish Ministry of Taxation uses Twitter (@skattefar) to illuminate the big black box and to give taxes a more humane yet professional voice. @skattefar is part of a bigger movement changing the authority’s perception of citizens as well as citizens’ perception of the authority. An honest insight into what happens when a modern bureaucracy ventures on new paths.

Nanna Holdgaard, Ph.D. fellow, ITU & Bjarki Valtysson, Associate Professor, KU:
“Caring for whom? – Perspectives on participation in social media”
In this talk we will discuss the participatory potentials of social media, particularly Facebook, and inspect how its affordances stage participation, sharing, and the act of creating. Political parties, politicians, businesses, cultural institutions, media institutions, artists, producers, consumers, and users – you name it – everyone is online. But how can these kinds of communications best be described and what should cultural institutions financed by the state be aware of? Is it marketization? Is it empowerment? Is it communication for the sake of communication? Is it caring – and if this is the case, caring for whom?

Ditte Laursen, Ph. D. and Media Researcher, The State and University Library, Aarhus:
“Meeting the visitor: Distribution and dissemination of mobile guides at the museum front desk”
Over the years, the benefits of mobile devices in museums have been explored in a number of papers. Yet studies show that encouraging visitors to use mobile interpretation is the largest challenge in implementing mobile projects in museums. One of the keys to encouraging visitors to use mobile interpretation – one that has received little attention so far – is the distribution and dissemination of the guides. This presentation focuses on the operation of the museum’s front desk. Based on video recordings, it addresses the interaction between front desk assistants and visitors, highlighting barriers and organizational challenges in the distribution and dissemination of multimedia guides.

Peter Leth, Educational Advisor, Lær-IT & Creative Commons Danmark:
“Open licensing opens up education”
If teachers violate copyright law in our educational practices we criminalize both ourselves and our students. Any use of other peoples’ knowledge in an IT-didactical context requires that we are allowed to use this knowledge. Consequently, the school system must ensure that students are offered a basic understanding of copyright law along with a range of tools to search for materials they are allowed to use. Creative Commons licenses make the communication between owner and user short, clear, concise, and user-friendly. They establish the foundation for a legal and rich environment for learning. At Lær IT we have developed a toolset called SchoolTube that ensures a safe learning environment providing students access to both knowledge and tools to reach their learning goals.

Miriam Lerkenfeld, Project Manager, The Danish Broadcasting Corporation:
“Old Content in a New Domain – Giving Access to Cultural Heritage”
DR has launched the laboratory Dansk Kulturarv by opening the radio- and TV-archive to the Danish citizens. The goal of Dansk Kulturarv is to create access to as much data as possible, for as many Danes as possible – but there are numerous limits. The limits are often related to platforms, technology, copyright and communities controlled by commercial interests. This makes it hard to expose public service content outside the traditional domains. This session will present some of the problems that arise when a public broadcaster wishes to share content on the Internet. It will also give some insights to how hard it is for a cultural institution to share content and combine it with content from other cultural institutions. But in the end also, how one should focus on collaborating and keeping the users engaged.

Theis Vallø Madsen, PhD Fellow, Aarhus University and KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art:
“Mapping the Messy Archive”
In the sixties a group of American avant-garde artists began experimenting with fluctuating, intertwining information. They built a decentralized, rhizomatic network where art and information circulated between artists outside the official institutions of art. The mail art network was an offspring of the Fluxus movement and was based on the same principles as we see in today’s digital culture: There is no autonomous work of art within the mail art network because every piece is part of an exchange between a sender and one or more receivers. In cooperation with three museums, Meaning Making Experience, Danish Broadcasting Corporation and a group of digital developers, I am working on the development of a digital map of a mail art archive, i.e. Danish artist Mogens Otto Nielsen’s archive at KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art. This collaboration – “The Mapping Project” – sets out to develop new ways of visualizing messy, entangled museum collections.

14.30: Coffee break

15.00: Jill Cousins, Executive Director of the Europeana Foundation

“Building a European Cultural Commons”

European Memory institutions have been the custodians of our culture for many a year. They preserve, conserve, and now digitise our past. Creating access to this huge repository means creating some common ground where both providers and users can play and gain new partnerships and new innovations. Europeana has been facilitating workshops for just over a year aimed at developing a European Cultural Commons, where caring is sharing and the world is possibly a richer place.

15.30: Sarah Giersing, Curator, Museum of Copenhagen

“The WALL in Copenhagen and Cairo. When citizens create their city’s history”

Sharing is not only about creating access to museum collections. It is about sharing the authority to interpret and augment these. Although many museums have embraced participatory information sharing, few have yet let it affect their information accumulating activities of cataloguing and collecting. The WALL in Copenhagen suggests new ways to let audiences explore and discuss their city’s history as well as shape and document digital future heritage. This presentation explores how this concept is unfolding in Copenhagen – and in the very different cultural and political climate of Cairo, where an adaptaion of the WALL is currently underway.

16.00: Jacob Wang, Head of Digital Media, The National Museum of Denmark

“The Digital Museum as Platform”

The National Museum needs a digital revolution and the hard work has begun! But what does it look like when a “digital museum” is built – not from the ground up, but from the messy place known as “now”? Who are the participants in such an effort, what is needed from them and how will they (we) be changed in the process? Museums are organizations in the “forever-business”, so how do we plan our activities for them to be both relevant today and valuable in the far future?
In my talk, I will share some of the core challenges the National Museum is facing (primarily as a digital museum) and suggest ideas and principles with which to tackle them: government 2.0, lean startup methodologies, hacker-mentality, in-house digital hacktivism, crowd-sourcing and community-engagement, the ‘self-conscious-generous-meta-museum’ and other more or less homegrown strategies “to do work that matters”.

16.30: Panel discussion

16.45: Concluding remarks by Merete Sanderhoff, SMK

17.00: End of seminar