Gathering, Preserving and Reusing our Cultural Heritage - the OKFN Cultural Heritage Working Group.

"Knowledge of our cultural heritage is captured today by a massive variety of organisations and people. These range from traditional museums to hyperlocal websites and private collections of scanned photos and shared on flickr. This data represents some of the most unique and engaging content available to us. Yet like so much of our digital wealth, there are often barriers to describing, sharing and finding this rich content. Over the years the cultural sector has delivered some amazing data sharing projects, yet there are still issues to be addressed by the community, particularly in the contexts of open and linked data....Our hope is that the working group will be both a motivator and enabler of open cultural content, giving practitioners solid arguments in favor of open heritage and help finding the tools to do it...."