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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…

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…

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…

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…

Blogpost on how the National Library of New Zealand added the first batch of 3500 open images to Flickr Commons, as well as their future plans for increasing this amount.

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…

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…

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 –…

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

Results of the pilot survey to establish where Switzerland’s cultural heritage institutions
stand with regard to open data and crowdsourcing, how they see the opportunities and risks associated with
these trends and what potential benefits they…