Open Culture Data - lessons-learned and what’s next

Part 4 of 4 videos on the Open Culture Data network. In total, there are now 35 (and counting) Open Culture Datasets of 22 individual providers available under open licenses. A diverse range of forty apps has been made based on Open Culture Datasets. We have determined the following lessons learned that we feel are critical for our success, and for that of similar initiatives: Innovators lead the way. By gathering the right group of professionals in the cultural domain who believed in the (potential) power of open and were willing to experiment, we created a small but very powerful vanguard. Create practical examples. We have learned that by putting open culture data in practice and actively stimulating the reuse of the data, cultural institutions can be convinced to join the movement. Thinking about open culture data requires a multidisciplinary perspective. Many cultural institutions have particular ideas about new applications and services for their data, but this is only one way