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#OpenGLAMnow: an upcoming series of webinars to learn to do open at your institution
#OpenGLAMnow: an upcoming series of webinars to learn to do open at your institution
We interviewed Larissa Borck for the upcoming series of webinars that the National Heritage Board will be hosting around Open GLAM and how…
scann
Oct 10
Sharing cultural heritage in India
Sharing cultural heritage in India
Medhavi Gandhi is the founder of The Heritage Lab, a digital media platform for cultural heritage enthusiasts in India, and director of…
Douglas McCarthy
Sep 23
Make a wish: what’s next for the communal @openglam Twitter?
Make a wish: what’s next for the communal @openglam Twitter?
Make a wish: what’s next for the communal @openglam Twitter?
scann
Sep 13
Happy first year, communal @openglam Twitter account!
Happy first year, communal @openglam Twitter account!
Go live, release, laugh, think, repeat!
scann
Sep 9
Piet Mondrian, copyright and a small town in Virginia
Piet Mondrian, copyright and a small town in Virginia
In the summer of 2015, a couple of hours before flying back to Amsterdam, I rented a car in Washington, DC in search of Piet Mondrian
Paul Keller
Sep 2
What Are You Ready to Do to Preserve Data Quality?
What Are You Ready to Do to Preserve Data Quality?
(back from the first edition of the API Culture Day on 28th June 2019 in Lyon, France)
Diane Drubay
Aug 15
Practical Uses of Open-APIs for Museums
Practical Uses of Open-APIs for Museums
(back from the first edition of the API Culture Day on 28th June 2019 in Lyon, France)
Diane Drubay
Aug 8
Princípios de Open GLAM: caminhos em direção ao acesso aberto para o patrimônio cultural*…
Princípios de Open GLAM: caminhos em direção ao acesso aberto para o patrimônio cultural*…
O texto abaixo foi escrito por Scann, editora do perfil Creative Commons: We Like to Share no Medium e ativa colaboradora em assuntos GLAM…
Juliana Monteiro
Aug 4
The Unlimited Possibilities of Open Content and Open API for Museums
The Unlimited Possibilities of Open Content and Open API for Museums
(back from the first edition of the API Culture Day on 28th June 2019 in Lyon, France)
Diane Drubay
Jul 25
Questions to ask cultural institutions about open access
Questions to ask cultural institutions about open access
Last week, a Twitter discussion addressed what questions to ask GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) about open access. Here’s…
Douglas McCarthy
Jul 22
Open GLAM: una curaduría colaborativa de colecciones culturales abiertas en Internet
Open GLAM: una curaduría colaborativa de colecciones culturales abiertas en Internet
Open GLAM es un movimiento cuyo objetivo es liberar el acceso al patrimonio cultural que se encuentra en galerías, bibliotecas, archivos y…
Ártica
Jul 19
Principios Open GLAM: cómo avanzar en el acceso abierto para el patrimonio cultural
Principios Open GLAM: cómo avanzar en el acceso abierto para el patrimonio cultural
¿Open GLAM?
scann
Jul 11
The Great Wave: what Hokusai’s masterpiece tells us about museums, copyright and online…
The Great Wave: what Hokusai’s masterpiece tells us about museums, copyright and online…
Katsushika Hokusai died 170 years ago
Douglas McCarthy
Jul 9
Open Access Scope in Open GLAM
Open Access Scope in Open GLAM
Twelve months ago Andrea Wallace and I embarked upon a mission to discover how many cultural heritage institutions make their digital…
Douglas McCarthy
May 1
Rights Statement Link Rot in Flickr Commons
Rights Statement Link Rot in Flickr Commons
Now in its second decade, Flickr Commons is an established repository of historical photographs from public archives around the world…
Douglas McCarthy
Apr 22
Licensing policy and practice in Open GLAM
Licensing policy and practice in Open GLAM
Twelve months ago Andrea Wallace and I set out to discover how many cultural heritage institutions make their digital collections…
Douglas McCarthy
Apr 15
Uncovering the global picture of Open GLAM
Uncovering the global picture of Open GLAM
How many cultural heritage institutions make their digital collections available for free reuse? How do they do this, and where is open…
Douglas McCarthy
Apr 4
How sharing Europe’s cultural heritage online impacts on, well, everything
How sharing Europe’s cultural heritage online impacts on, well, everything
This post is part of the #SalonEuropa blog parade on the theme of Europe, organised by the Museum Burg Posterstein.
Europeana
Sep 25, 2018
Coding da Vinci Ost 2018
Coding da Vinci Ost 2018
Was GLAMs aus Kultur-Hackathons lernen können von Sebastian Ruff
Sebastian Ruff
Jun 19, 2018
Hello world! The Finnish National Gallery opens up its collections
Hello world! The Finnish National Gallery opens up its collections
Collections Management Director Riitta Ojanperä tells us what’s driving the Finnish National Gallery’s new Open Access policy
Europeana
Mar 21, 2018
Gender discrimination in the cultural heritage sector
Gender discrimination in the cultural heritage sector
Larissa Borck reflects on biases in physical and online collections
Europeana
Mar 20, 2018
Expanding Our Collection’s Global Reach on the Spanish Wikipedia
Expanding Our Collection’s Global Reach on the Spanish Wikipedia
About twenty thousand new articles are added every month to Wikipedia by editors around the world. In order to increase the access and…
Elena Villaespesa
Mar 15, 2018
Insights from Met Open Access: why The Metropolitan Museum of Art has opened up its collections
Insights from Met Open Access: why The Metropolitan Museum of Art has opened up its collections
In February 2017, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) made over 375,000 images of public domain artworks in its collections available…
Europeana
Oct 27, 2017
Museus e “big data”
Museus e “big data”
Ontem, depois de ter participado de uma mesa redonda de lançamento do e-book “Tudo sobre tod@as: redes digitais, privacidade e venda de…
Juliana Monteiro
Aug 30, 2017
The Importance of Learning through Museums
This year, there 2500+ students who’re going to be part of our Integrated Creative Learning program. While that has me excited (and working…
Medhavi Gandhi
Jun 1, 2016
Your imagination is the only limit
Your imagination is the only limit
Open museum images as building blocks in your hands
Merete Sanderhoff
May 18, 2016
Life on the outside: collections, contexts and the wild, wild web
Life on the outside: collections, contexts and the wild, wild web
Tim Sherratt
Sep 20, 2014
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