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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…

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…

Infographic describing a number of different value production models that can be used when dealing with digital cultural heritage content. Based on the presentation given by Podromos Tsiavos at the Europeana Space IPR Workshop, 2 March 2015, Coventry…

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…

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…

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…

Blog on the GLAMetrics project, an initiative of the Dutch Open Culture Data network to measure the impact of open cultural data. In the blog, Maarten Brinkerink of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision presents the initial outcomes of their…

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 OpenGLAM Open Collections site brings together collections from around the world that provide digital scans or photos that can be freely used without any restrictions. Items can be filtered by rights, language, country of origin, type etc. You…

We’ve teamed up with our sister project The Public Domain Review to bring you open collections selected by curators from cultural heritage institutions across the globe. Each month we’ll publish a guest article written by a curator on a set of…