Releasing Your Museum’s Data on GitHub: Best Practices

So you want to release your museum’s collection data to the public. Now what?

In this how-to session, I will go through MoMA’s GitHub journey, covering:
*common concerns from colleagues and how to address them
*considerations in setting up a repository on GitHub
*what to expect in terms of maintenance and questions from the public
*how to encourage engagement with your data
*what we’ve seen people do with our data so far

Bibliography:
https://medium.com/digital-moma/thousands-of-exhausted-things-or-why-we-dedicated-moma-s-collection-data-to-the-public-domain-7e0a7165e99#.9xco22tlc

https://medium.com/digital-moma/helen-frankenthaler-picasso-and-barr-s-torpedo-oh-my-2d9f27e42b42#.w8nwmfbhc

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-nerds-guide-to-the-2229-paintings-at-moma/

https://github.com/cmoa/collection
https://github.com/tategallery/collection
https://github.com/cooperhewitt/collection