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What’s new in the Open GLAM survey

What’s new in the Open GLAM survey

Now in its sixth year of existence, the Open GLAM survey has just undergone a significant overhaul. Here’s what has changed.
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Douglas McCarthy
Crisis & GLAM: rethinking the impact of open culture in threatened territories

Crisis & GLAM: rethinking the impact of open culture in threatened ...

By Patricia Díaz Rubio
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Patricia Diaz-Rubio
The controversial rules for the reproduction of cultural heritage in Italian law

The controversial rules for the reproduction of cultural heritage i...

In a previous article we illustrated the particular regulation of images for the Italian intellectual property law. However, when dealing…
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Simone Aliprandi
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28 Vermeers

28 Vermeers

What does the Rijksmuseum’s landmark Vermeer exhibition tell us about museums, copyright and digital collections today?
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Douglas McCarthy
Photography in Italian law: an overview of author’s right, image rights and privacy

Photography in Italian law: an overview of author’s right, image ri...

In a world where communication is mainly based on images, knowing precisely which rights are applicable to photographs becomes essential.
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Simone Aliprandi
Creating an open access digital collection for contemporary art and local traditions

Creating an open access digital collection for contemporary art and...

The project “ECHO II: Traditions in Transition”
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Revekka Kefalea
AvoinGLAM’s response to the writing of Kimmo Levä, Director General of the Finnish National Gallery

AvoinGLAM’s response to the writing of Kimmo Levä, Director General...

Kimmo Levä, the new Director General of the Finnish National Gallery, wrote on 15 March in his blog post “Data is more important than the…
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Susanna Ånäs
Four years of the Open GLAM survey

Four years of the Open GLAM survey

Fresh insight, important updates and new visualisations into the global picture of open access to cultural heritage
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Douglas McCarthy
What’s the latest picture of Open GLAM?

What’s the latest picture of Open GLAM?

As 2021 draws to a close, here is the latest picture of open access to cultural heritage (known as “Open GLAM”) around the world.
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Douglas McCarthy
Balinese Wikisource (WikiPustaka) gives a new life to palm-leaf manuscripts

Balinese Wikisource (WikiPustaka) gives a new life to palm-leaf man...

Launched in 2021, Balinese Wikisource (WikiPustaka) has become the first Wikisource to be entirely based on handwritten manuscripts…
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Satdeep Gill
The challenges of sustaining open access projects in Museum Musik Indonesia

The challenges of sustaining open access projects in Museum Musik I...

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FAIZZATUS SA'DIYAH
Emerson’s ‘Nature’ and the commons

Emerson’s ‘Nature’ and the commons

Exploring Emerson’s understanding of landscape and the public commons, and how they relate to museums and open access in the digital realm
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Douglas McCarthy
Advocating open access to GLAM institutions on Wikimedia

Advocating open access to GLAM institutions on Wikimedia

An essay about advocating for Open GLAM submitted for the Creative Commons GLAM Certificate (Alpha test)
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Giovanna Fontenelle
Fondazione Alinari per la fotografia: l’accordo con il MIBAC non sceglie l’open access

Fondazione Alinari per la fotografia: l’accordo con il MIBAC non sc...

“Cosa si può imparare oggi dal fallimento del modello di business dell’azienda Alinari?”
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Deborah De Angelis
Open access denied: the Alinari Foundation’s agreement with the Italian Ministry of Culture

Open access denied: the Alinari Foundation’s agreement with the Ita...

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Deborah De Angelis
The Creative Commons Italian Chapter launches a common appeal to EU Member States and cultural…

The Creative Commons Italian Chapter launches a common appeal to EU...

Images of cultural heritage in the public domain belong to everybody
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Deborah De Angelis
Bibliography audit and data extraction

Bibliography audit and data extraction

In this article I walk through the process of retrieving author gender, origin and contact information from sources cited in a CC work.
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Diego de la Hera
The case for Open Restitution — An Africa centred approach to restitution data

The case for Open Restitution — An Africa centred approach to resti...

“ It was at this moment this movie went from being good, to great ”
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Headstrong Historian
The COVID-19 pandemic and Open GLAMs in Nigeria: impact, opportunities and challenges

The COVID-19 pandemic and Open GLAMs in Nigeria: impact, opportunit...

Helen Chuma-Okoro and David Ogbeidi
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Helenchuma
Open GLAM in Indonesia: the Current Situation of Indonesian Digital Cultural Heritage

Open GLAM in Indonesia: the Current Situation of Indonesian Digital...

Around 1844, the Dutch Government introduced the intellectual property protection laws for the Dutch East Indies, now known as Indonesia…
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Biyanto
Openness As A Mindset — Retas Budaya Festival in Indonesia

Openness As A Mindset — Retas Budaya Festival in Indonesia

A review of the Indonesian cultural hackathon, Retas Budaya.
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Ivonne Kristiani
Public Domain’s Provisions for Open GLAM Activities in Indonesia

Public Domain’s Provisions for Open GLAM Activities in Indonesia

There are around 2.200 public domain’s digital files from Indonesia using the PD mark in Wikimedia Commons repository. Most of those files…
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Fitriayu Penyalai
Expandiendo las prácticas abiertas: ¿Cómo transformar instituciones e incluir patrimonios locales?

Expandiendo las prácticas abiertas: ¿Cómo transformar instituciones...

Incluyendo más historias locales en la narrativa Open GLAM
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Virginia Brussa
This is how the OpenGLAM logo was created

This is how the OpenGLAM logo was created

This article was written by Claudio Ruiz, Evelin Heidel and Manuel Córdova.
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claudio
Hack4OpenGLAM

Hack4OpenGLAM

Avoin GLAM — The Finnish Open GLAM working group has organized the Hack4FI Open GLAM hackathons since 2015. This year, in March, meals had…
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Susanna Ånäs
¿Cuándo acceso es acceso? ¿Cuánto acceso es acceso?

¿Cuándo acceso es acceso? ¿Cuánto acceso es acceso?

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Abierto/Público_CL
After open access

After open access

What happens to a museum after it has gone open? We spoke to Linda Spurdle of Birmingham Museums Trust to find out.
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Douglas McCarthy
GIFs that keep on giving — a look back at GIF IT UP India

GIFs that keep on giving — a look back at GIF IT UP India

After organising India’s first ever cultural heritage animation contest, Medhavi Gandhi evaluates its success and impact
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Medhavi Gandhi
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