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…
Museums face steady demand for images of artworks from their collections, and they typically provide a service of making and delivering high-resolution images of art. The images are often intellectually essential for scholarly study and teaching, and…
Access to art images –especially images of art works in museum collections here and abroad – is essential to teaching, learning, research and scholarship in the history of art, and indeed in all the many fields engaged with the study of visual…
Kennisland has partnered with Collections Trust to address questions that partners of Europeana Food and Drink have about Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). Though primarily intended for the partners of the Europeana Food and Drink project, the…
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…
The National Library and Alexander Turnbull Library have established a common objective and an overarching suite of principles supporting use and reuse of collection items and metadata. This policy ensures consistency and transparency in our decision…
The GLAMwiki Toolset project is a collaboration between Wikimedia Nederland, Wikimedia UK, Wikimedia France, Wikimedia CH (Switzerland) and Europeana. The goal of the project is to provide a set of tools to make batch uploads of GLAM (Galleries,…
The GLAMwiki toolset enables galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs) to easily make their digital content accessible to Wikipedia users and all of the world. The tool allows GLAMs to automatically upload large batches of digital versions…