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Collaborations between GLAM volunteers, GLAM institutions and Wikimedia Deutschland are diverse and very flexible – which is exactly what makes them so exciting for all involved. Despite their diversity, WMDE’s experience with almost 100 GLAM…

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…

Europeana’s extensive consultation with the heritage sector, including dozens of workshops, has explored in detail the risks and rewards of open data from different perspectives. The most helpful way of framing this discussion has proven to be…

Co-producing a new ‘open’ digital resource that will allow anyone to search and collect on-line resources and to combine them with their own media (film, photographs and other ephemera) in order to tell their own stories, make new archives, be…

EC report on the issues and solutions of bringing Europe's heritage online

Book chapter on Nasty Old People, the first Swedish feature film to be distributed for free under a Creative Commons license through the peer-to-peer file-sharing service The Pirate Bay. This collaboration tried out new forms of distributed open…

This book brings together essays by academics, librarians, entrepreneurs, activists and policy makers, who were all part of the EU-funded Communia project. Together the authors argue that the Public Domain — that is, the informational works owned…

A Report for the Comité des Sages of the European Commission. The purpose of this study was to conduct a thorough investigation of the costs associated with digitising different types of material in different types of cultural heritage institutions,…

The business of Open Data, where's the benefit. Talk by Jeni Tennison of the ODI. Filming by @jastilley