Tagged With: open data

Students from the Master of Science in Data Visualization program at Parsons' School of Art, Media, and Technology were assigned a challenging task: interpreting data from The Met's Open Access collection to design thoughtful, creative, and often eye-opening presentations.

In this interview, Tom Scott, Head of Digital Engagement at London’s Wellcome Collection, shares his thoughts on digital strategy and the contribution of open data to a knowledgeable and creative society.

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.

The principle that works in the public domain should remain in the public domain once digitised was recently incorporated into European law. In this post, Ariadna Matas interviews Dr. Andrea Wallace, Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter, about the importance of this provision for the cultural heritage sector and her research on Article 14.

As part of her two-week data residency at M+, George Oates considers how a new, contemporary museum could shape itself through 21st century museum practices to ensure a strong digital foundation, and one that specifically cultivates digital distribution of contemporary visual culture.

In this blog post, George Oates examines how M+'s approaches the opportunities afforded by 21st century museum practices, like open data and open collection imagery, and relates this to its public API and collection metadata to produce data visualisation and analysis.

This paper draws on the experiences of the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS), gathered in the form of research interviews in late 2016 and internal reflections on a major project to redevelop the NGS website. It explores the extent to which particular emphases around openness, including copyright and the need to focus on digitizing collections, take priority over other important issues, such as open data and standardisation.

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.

This response challenges the recommendations around digitization and open access made by the 2018 Sarr-Savoy 'Report On the Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Relational Ethics.' Signed by 108 scholars and practitioners, the response highlight the aspects or IPR and digital cultural heritage that must be considered during restitution efforts.

As Part Three of a series, this Medium post discusses the scope of open access used to define the ongoing Open GLAM survey conducted by Douglas McCarthy and Andrea Wallace.