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Cultural (heritage) institutions are redefining their roles in a context of digital access to culture. This talk will address how the cultural heritage sector can adopt a layered approach, with different degrees of openness. An overall goal of…

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.

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…

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…

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…

Why did the Rijksmuseum make available their highest quality material without restrictions, and what are the results?

In 2011, the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands started releasing images of public domain works online. In 2013, these were all made…

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…