Open Source in Cultural Heritage

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# "Inspirational Talk"
# Ashley Blewer
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### CNA "Hack your Heritage" 2018-11-30 @ Technoport

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# Working in open source...

# ...in cultural heritage

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# What do you do?

- As an archivist
- As a manager
- As a developer
- As a "general technical person"
- As a consultant

- University film archive
- Small private archives
- Big public libraries
- Big museums
- Software for all

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# Previously

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# Right now

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# Right now

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# Open source
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been doing this a long time

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# Open source
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has and will always be the essence of what I do and who I am

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# Open source is more than free stuff, it's a philosophy
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# Open source
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want to talk about the philosophy of open source, as I see it
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# The four essential freedoms

A program is free software if the program's users have the four essential freedoms: [1]

- The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
- The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
- The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
- The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

[source](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html)

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# Open source, open data, open documents, open APIs
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# Open culture

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Beyond just source code
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# Open source
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# Transparency

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Working in the open in every way

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# Open source sustainability models

- Bounty model
- Support contract model
- Consulting/expertise
- Mixed licensing
- Grants/stipends

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# Open source (other) models

- documentation
- helping others
- testing software
- helping others

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# Open source != no support
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# Open source == support
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# Support from developers 💻
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# Support from the community 💕
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# Open source
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As my colleague Jerome, who will be speaking in the early afternoon, put it eloquently yesterday -- the open source model of working flips the relationship between the vendor and the customers -- the customers make the decisions and the vendors follow suite, unlike in a traditional business model

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# About cultural heritage

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# About cultural heritage

- (relatively) no money
- extremely passionate individuals
- need creative solutions
- often funded with public money

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# Cultural heritage
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# Cultural heritage
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# Cultural heritage needs open source!

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# Examples

- Kubernetes
- Archivematica
- RAWcooked
- frictionless data packaging
- ffmprovisr 
- a/v artifact atlas
- minimum viable station

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big to small