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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…

This short piece discusses the theory and practice of curating images in the networked media culture. It also highlights the tension between ‘openness’ and ‘closure’ that surfaces in the often conflicting approaches to images and other forms…

European project which will enable and promote greater re-use of cultural heritage resources by Europe's creative industries.

Excellent blog post looking at the barriers to reusing open content in the creative industries.

Opinion piece by Maarten Brinkerink of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision on the value of open cultural data and its potential for creative reuse.

This video describes the project Open Culture Data that started as a grassroots movement in late 2011, with the aim to open up data in the cultural sector and stimulate (creative) reuse. In this context, the authors organised a hackathon, which…

SHARING IS CARING. Openness and sharing in the cultural heritage sector is an anthology that explores the changes and opportunities brought about by digitisation, digital media, and the internet for the cultural heritage world and – not least –…

This topic report looks at the digitisation of cultural heritage in Europe and the regulations and conditions for it re-use. The report discusses relevant research undertaken over the last few years regarding the challenges and benefites of making…

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