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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

The Finnish National Gallery recently applies a CC0 copyright waiver to its digital reproductions of out-of-copyright works, joining leading institutions in the OpenGLAM movement to promote free and open access to digital cultural heritage. Riitta Ojanperä, PhD, Director of Collections Management, spoke to Douglas McCarthy about the Gallery’s policy.

The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is one of the United States’ largest art museums, with renowned artworks in its encyclopaedic collection. It has made images of its public-domain works available to use without restriction, bringing its mission to be 'for the benefit of all the people forever' firmly into the digital age. Jane Alexander, Chief Digital Information Officer at the CMA, gave Douglas McCarthy the inside story behind the announcement.

The Musée de Bretagne is an open access pioneer in the French museum sector, offering high-resolution public domain images free to download and use. Douglas McCarthy spoke with Céline Chanas and Fabienne Martin-Adam to learn about the genesis, impact and context of the museum’s open access policy.

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.

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.

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.