Large-scale digitization in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) created the conditions for providing access to collections as data. It opened new opportunities to explore, use and reuse digital collections. Strong proponents of collections as data are the Innovation Labs which provided numerous examples of publishing datasets under open licenses in order to reuse digital content in novel and creative ways. Within the current transition to the emerging data spaces, clouds for cultural heritage and open science, the need to identify practices which support more GLAM institutions to offer datasets becomes a priority, especially within the smaller and medium-sized institutions. This paper answers the need to support GLAM institutions in facilitating the transition into publishing their digital content and to introduce collections as data services; this will also help their future efficient contribution to data spaces and cultural heritage clouds. It offers a checklist that can be used for both creating and evaluating digital collections suitable for computational use. The main contributions of this paper are i) a methodology for devising a checklist to create and assess digital collections for computational use; ii) a checklist to create and assess digital collections suitable for use with computational methods; iii) the assessment of the checklist against the practice of institutions innovating in the Collections as data field; and iv) the results obtained after the application and recommendations for the use of the checklist in GLAM institutions.
翻译:美术馆、图书馆、档案馆和博物馆(GLAM)的大规模数字化为以数据形式提供馆藏访问创造了条件,开启了探索、使用和复用数字馆藏的新机遇。创新实验室是"馆藏即数据"理念的有力推动者,它们提供了大量在开放许可下发布数据集以创新性复用数字内容的范例。在当前向新兴数据空间、文化遗产云和开放科学转型的背景下,识别能够支持更多GLAM机构(尤其是中小型机构)提供数据集的做法已成为当务之急。本文旨在回答这一需求,支持GLAM机构推动其数字内容发布的转型,并引入馆藏数据服务;这也有助于其未来高效地融入数据空间和文化遗产云。本文提供了一份可用于创建和评估适合计算使用的数字馆藏的清单。本文的主要贡献包括:i) 制定创建和评估计算可用数字馆藏清单的方法论;ii) 创建和评估适合计算方法使用的数字馆藏清单;iii) 对照在馆藏数据领域进行创新的机构实践对清单进行评估;iv) 清单应用后获得的结果以及在GLAM机构中使用该清单的建议。