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In June 2014, The Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa, made more than 30,000 high resolution images of its collection available to the public to download and reuse. The images were made available with No Known Copyright Restriction statements (17,000…

In recent years the Open Data philosophy has gained a considerable momentum. In the public realm the free release of PSI datasets, besides enabling new and promising forms of governmental accountability, paves the way to third-party developed…

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…

Provides an overview of a number of separate but interlinked efforts to extend the Europeana Licensing Framework – the framework that governs the copyright aspects of Europeana.

Museums face steady demand for images of artworks from their collections, and they typically provide a service of making and delivering high-resolution images of art. The images are often intellectually essential for scholarly study and teaching, and…

Book chapter looking at the challenges for creative industries in reusing content.

Europeana’s extensive consultation with the heritage sector, including dozens of workshops, has explored in detail the risks and rewards of open data from different perspectives. The most helpful way of framing this discussion has proven to be…

Report based on the outcomes of the CCau IndustryForum + ccSalon events held in November 2006 at the Creative IndustriesPrecinct, Queensland University of Technology. This report seeks to evaluate and respond to the awareness, support, practicalities…