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OpenGLAM principles
A set of principles on how to release collections of open cultural data as well as promote and stimulate reuse of this, drafted by the OpenGLAM working group, that an institution should champion to be able to call itself an OpenGLAM institution
Photomediations exhibition space
Exhibition space of Photomediations: An Open Book, part of the Open & Hybrid Publishing pilot of the Europeana Space project. On this site you can read, explore, remix and share the image collection from Photomediations: An Open Book, and the open…
On the Commons
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.
Orphan works licensing scheme: Museum of the Order of St John
Case study on how the orphan works licensing scheme has helped the Museum of the Order of St John tell the story of a wartime nurse for a new generation.
How open is open enough? A philosophy of cultural commons for the cultural heritage sector
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…
Taking, Making and Law-Breaking: copyright, digitised content, and the digital maker movement
Although there is a lot of digitised cultural heritage content online, it is still incredibly difficult to source good material to reuse, or material that you are allowed to reuse, in creative projects. What can institutions do to help people who…
Make it Digital. Enabling Use and Re-Use
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…
Using open content in the new Sound and Vision exhibition
Blogpost on The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision temporary exhibition, 3FM presents: Your Serious Radio. The exhibition focusses on the importance of music and radio in your teen years. It does so through showcasing DJs from all eras of…
The Making of Cultural Commons: Nasty Old Film Distribution and Funding.
Book chapter on Nasty Old People, the first Swedish feature film to be distributed for free under a Creative Commons license through the peer-to-peer file-sharing service The Pirate Bay. This collaboration tried out new forms of distributed open…
A Curated Object and a Disruptive e-Anarchive
Illustrated article introducing Photomediations: An Open Book -an experiment in ‘open and hybrid publishing’ undertaken in 2015 as part of the Europeana Space project.