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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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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

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,…

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…

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,…