Blog posts

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Blog posts

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Blog posts that focus on the reuse of open content and the challenges it poses.

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A General Guide For Creating Open Content
Blog post on how you can create open content and license it

How the UK's new copyright law benefits libraries, archives and museums
Guidance on recent copyright changes in the UK.

Open Content Licensing Mess
Blog post on how to avoid the pitfalls when choosing an open content licence.

So you want to reuse digital heritage content in a creative context? Good luck with that.
Excellent blog post looking at the barriers to reusing open content in the creative industries.

Creative Reuse, Open Content & the Cultural Sector: A Brief History
Opinion piece by Maarten Brinkerink of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision on the value of open cultural data and its potential for creative reuse.

Dutch cultural heritage reaches millions every month
Blog on the GLAMetrics project, an initiative of the Dutch Open Culture Data network to measure the impact of open cultural data. In the blog, Maarten Brinkerink of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision presents the initial outcomes of their…

Blogpost: Photomediations: An Open Book
Blog post by Joanna Zylinska on the the launch of Photomediations: An Open Book, within the Open and Hybrid Publishing pilot of the eSpace project.. The pilot redesigns a coffee-table book as an online experience to produce a creative resource that…

Workshop Report- Input on ECLAP's  Three Step Guide to Clearing Rights
A big challenge that is facing performing arts organisations that want to provide online access to their holdings, is that they are often unsure how to determine the rights status of these collections, and how to clear rights. The working group on…

Using open content in the new Sound and Vision exhibition
Blogpost on The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision temporary exhibition, 3FM presents: Your Serious Radio. The exhibition focusses on the importance of music and radio in your teen years. It does so through showcasing DJs from all eras of…