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National Library of New Zealand: Collection use and reuse policy
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…
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…
IPR Guidelines - A guide to understanding copyright when reusing cultural data
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…
Make it Digital. Enabling Use and Re-Use
Digital content is made to be copied, distributed and adapted. The ability to incorporate and re-use content in new works provides enormous creative opportunities. On the other hand, adapting non-digital models of rights and usage to a digital…
Taking, Making and Law-Breaking: copyright, digitised content, and the digital maker movement
Although there is a lot of digitised cultural heritage content online, it is still incredibly difficult to source good material to reuse, or material that you are allowed to reuse, in creative projects. What can institutions do to help people who…
Photomediations exhibition space
Exhibition space of Photomediations: An Open Book, part of the Open & Hybrid Publishing pilot of the Europeana Space project. On this site you can read, explore, remix and share the image collection from Photomediations: An Open Book, and the open…
Opening Access to Collections: the Making and Using of Open Digitised Cultural Content
This paper situates the activity of digitisation to increase access to cultural and heritage content alongside the objectives of the Open Access movement. It demonstrates that increasingly open licensing of digital cultural heritage content is…
A Guide to Open and Hybrid Publishing
The world of publishing is undergoing dramatic changes, with the emergence of new publishing platforms, the increasing need for cross-media content and the transformation of the book into an ‘open medium’. The aim of this guide is to explain the…
Striking the Balance
This report commissioned by the NMDC from the Collections Trust examines how museums are balancing the twin aims of maximising public access to their digital content and promoting their own financial sustainability. Striking the Balance sets out the…