Tagged With: Creative Commons

Presentation at National Digital Forum, New Zealand, by Sarah Powell on behalf of Douglas McCarthy.

Fresh from co-leading a global survey of open access in the GLAM sector, this talk shares Douglas's insights into the key trends and challenges for museums trying to engage and empower audiences through open access to digital collections.

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19dKUCw3fmHkNYBB3I-6ttIh7l2sNgfgxP9GmyxLhgyA/edit#slide=id.g43e7e0d630_0_353

This paper explores how GLAM-Wiki tactics, opportunities and collaboration are changing the GLAM use of Wikimedia projects from being viewed as just a platform for exposing collection to a broader public audience, into a growing part of the heritage professional toolkit.

This blog post reviews the practices of four institutions and aggregators to enable search, browsing, and filtering open access content in digital collections.

This blog post reviews how galleries, libraries, archives, and museums communicate open access policies to users through online collection interfaces.

As open access has become broadly adopted in the cultural sector, the need for stronger collaboration between stakeholders in this area has grown. In 2018, a group of people connected to Creative Commons, the Wikimedia Foundation and Open Knowledge International took initiative to revitalize the OpenGLAM network and to think about next steps. This blog post presents an overview of this.

Kennisland conducted a research on the accuracy of rights statements in Europeana. The results of the research show that at least 61.8% of the rights statements were accurately applied. Most problems occur with the application of Creative Commons licenses and the Public Domain Mark.

This Medium post describes how Hong Kong's M+ museum decided to move towards open access for its contemporary collections, how it manages complex rights scenarios.

In this article, Michael Weinberg considers the licensing decisions behind Smithsonian's Open Access programme, highlighting a few areas for improvement, and reflects on how the launch is the result of many years of effort and advocacy by a wide range of people.

One year since the Cleveland Museum of Art launched its Open Access programme, Chief Digital Information Officer Jane Alexander highlights the engagement, analytics and outcomes it has seen so far.

Philippe Rivière, Head of Communication and Digital at Paris Musées, describes the strategy and process behind the launch of its open access programme, where it released its digital collections into the public domain with a CC0 waiver.