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Guide for museums putting their content online.

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.

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…

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…

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,…

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 publication aims to provide cultural heritage institutions with better insight into obstacles to be overcome. An analysis of the various challenges provides an overview of solutions that can help institutions make the right decisions concerning…

EC report on the issues and solutions of bringing Europe's heritage online

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,…