Tagged With: National Gallery of Art
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Images of Works of Art in Museum Collections: The Experience of Open Access
This report details the various approaches of 11 heritage institutions from the US and UK of making available images of public domain works from their collections. The institutions operate within various levels of openness and provide access in many ways, and it details the decision-making process leading to each institution's approach.
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The Impact of Open Access on Galleries, Libraries, Museums, & Archives
This paper follows on Kristin Kelly's 2013 report, 'Images of Works of Art in Museum Collections: The Experience of Open Access, a Study of 11 Museums,' and documents trends and insights that have emerged over the past decade among early adopters of open access programs. It also highlights the growing expectation both private and public funders have regarding the requirements of open access as a condition for grant recipients.
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A review of a year of open access images at Te Papa
This article reviews the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa's experience with open access following the first year of the policy's implementation.
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Art world meets the techno world
This article from 1994 reports on a four-day conference, "Art Museums on the Information Highway," attended by members of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) to discuss new opportunities and challenges posed by advanced technologies.
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New Online Openness Lets Museums Share Works With the World
This article discusses cultural institutions' advancements in the movement toward opening collections to online audiences for reuse.
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TECHNOARTS : In Cyberspace, Can Anyone Really Appreciate Art?
This article from 1994 describes efforts taken by various companies and heritage institutions engaged in the delivery of digital collections via CD-ROMs for commercial sale and licensing purposes.
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The good news and the bad news from the Met are all one tale
In this post, James Schulman considers the economic difficulties experienced by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and events leading up to the departure of Director Tom Campbell in light of the Museum's February 2017 announcement to release 375,000 high-quality images to the public domain.
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Get Downloading - 20 great GLAM websites for free high resolution images
Posted in March 2016, this article provides a comprehensive list of images from online collections that people may use for free. Many are made available for all types of use as either public domain or CC0 content while others are released under Creative Commons licenses.