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…
Independent report commissioned by the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and supported by the Economic and Social Research Council. Documents the results of a year-long knowledge exchange initiative undertaken between the Intellectual Property…
This topic report looks at the digitisation of cultural heritage in Europe and the regulations and conditions for it re-use. The report discusses relevant research undertaken over the last few years regarding the challenges and benefites of making…
Access to art images –especially images of art works in museum collections here and abroad – is essential to teaching, learning, research and scholarship in the history of art, and indeed in all the many fields engaged with the study of visual…
This report describes the current approaches of 11 art museums in the United States and the United Kingdom to the use of images of works of art that are in their collections and are in the public domain. Each approach is slightly different. By…
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 Balanced Value Impact Model (BVI Model) draws evidence from a wide range of sources to provide a compelling account of the means of measuring the impact of digital resources and using evidence to advocate how change benefits people. The aim is to…