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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

Presentation by Mike Dickison on behalf of Siobhan Leachman, GLAM volunteer and enthusiast, at National Digital Forum, New Zealand. It documents the trials and tribulations of reusing digital public domain content provided by New Zealand GLAMs from the perspective of a member of the public.

Slides: http://bit.ly/GizItNDF

In this interview, Michal Čudrnák describes how openly licensed collections and creative reuse help the Slovak National Gallery reach new audiences.

Munich’s Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus's Collections Online offers high-resolution image downloads with CC BY-SA licences for its out-of-copyright works. In this interview, Jacqueline Falk, responsible for Digital Communication at the Lenbachhaus, shared the inside story with Douglas McCarthy.

After Birmingham Museums Trust took the decision to make images of its out-of-copyright collections freely available under a Creative Commons CC0 waiver, Linda Spurdle, Digital Development Manager, told Douglas McCarthy why the Trust had adopted open access policies and what it hoped to achieve.

In February 2017, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) made over 375,000 images of public domain artworks in its collections available for use and remix with Creative Commons Zero. Identifying data for the museum’s entire publicly available digitized collection was also made available on GitHub development platform. In this interview, Europeana's Camille Tenneson asked Neal Stimler, Program Manager for Content Partnerships, about what was driving these projects.

In 2017 the Mauritshuis published its collections in Europeana Collections in high-resolution and in the public domain, joining leading institutions in the OpenGLAM movement to promote open access to cultural heritage. In this interiew, Mauritshis curator Lea van der Vinde tells Douglas McCarthy how open access helps the Mauritshuis fulfil its mission.

In this article, Effie Kapsalis, Senior Digital Program Officer at the Smithsonian, shares insights into the strategy and implementation of Smithsonian Open Access​.