Case studies

V&A Images: Image Licensing at a Cultural Heritage Institution

This case study focuses specifically on V&A Images, while contextualising its activities within the museum’s broader digitisation programmes. It highlights some of the factors that are important to the success of an image licensing operation,…

Case Studies Mapping the Flows of Content, Value and Rights across the Public Sector

This report is an analysis of seven case studies of publicly funded e-content initiatives, which demonstrate the flow of content, value and rights across the respective seven representatives of the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) sponsors. It is…

V&A Images: Scaling Back to Refocus on Revenue Case Study Update

V&A Images, the commercial image licensing unit of the Victoria and Albert Museum, had a difficult task: to generate profits through image licensing while also fostering the museum’s public and scholarly mission of providing access. In 2009,…

Case Studies / Highlights from SMK, The National Gallery of Denmark

SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst), The National Gallery of Denmark, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project.…

Europeana case studies

Take a look at some examples of re-use and the benefits it delivers to cultural organisations.

A review of a year of open access images at Te Papa

In June 2014, The Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa, made more than 30,000 high resolution images of its collection available to the public to download and reuse. The images were made available with No Known Copyright Restriction statements (17,000…

Orphan works licensing scheme: Museum of the Order of St John

Case study on how the orphan works licensing scheme has helped the Museum of the Order of St John tell the story of a wartime nurse for a new generation.

Democratising the Rijksmuseum

Why did the Rijksmuseum make available their highest quality material without restrictions, and what are the results?

In 2011, the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands started releasing images of public domain works online. In 2013, these were all made…

Making impact on a small budget - LSH Case Study

The Livrustkammaren och Skoklosters slott med Stiftelsen Hallwylska museet in Sweden has about 50 people on its staff and a limited budget. About 300,000 people visit the three museums combined each year. At the same time, their collection is shared…

Think big, start small, move fast- How the York Museums Trust started opening up its collection

This case study by OpenGLAM describes how the York Museums Trust went about publishing their online collection, as well as the effect this had, including different examples of the reuse of their content. By publishing the collection fast, and…

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