Why Join the Open Cultural Data Movement?
In Retas Budaya you can meet and network with other people and communities in the creative industry working in many different fields and with different expertise. This may well form the foundation for knowledge exchange and collaborations. It is always refreshing to learn from other people about their creative processes and approaches in a way that enriches one’s own creativity. Imagine what a software developer can learn from a novelist, or an artist from a game developer and how that could broaden their creative horizon and possibly result in interesting and new collaborations.
More than that, Retas Budaya is a playground to test your ideas. If you always wanted to make a game for fun, but never had the opportunity, let’s do it here. If you have an idea for how history can be told through comics, let’s try it out here. You might also build your portfolio by creating something in Retas Budaya for the public.
Most importantly, in Retas Budaya, you can have fun playing with open cultural data and creating something out of it.How Can You Use the Data?
We have created thematic tracks in which our open cultural data can be transformed into something meaningful and fun:- Stories from data
Data and information are all important, but stories move people and stir our emotions. Stories give meaning to data in a way that we can relate to personally. In this track, we will look into cultural data and craft compelling stories from them, whether in the form of short stories or non-fiction essay.
- Games from data
Gaming today is far more than just a pastime for kids. Gaming can be a powerful form of media. An interactive game can create not only a story but also an experience where a gamer is involved firsthand. In the “Games from data” track, we expect to create digital games out of cultural data.
- Open data remix
Through this track, we invite you to make your own creation using open cultural data. Whether it is creating a digital collage using free-license images or remixing a song from various free-to-use sounds, let your imagination run free!
- Citizen science & open data
Nowadays, cultural data can be collected not only by large institutions. Even nonscientists can contribute in helping scientific research by adding cultural data. This track takes advantage of crowdsourcing to collect cultural data.
What Have Others Done?
GLAM institutions in many countries have begun to open their cultural collections.
- In Indonesia, institutions have begun to digitize their collections, as can be seen with these institutions that cooperated with Wikimedia Indonesia.
- In Germany, the cultural collection was transformed into something new with the Coding da Vinci project.