iHeritage
From ‘view’ to ‘embed’ to ‘remix’ and ‘republish’:
The future of heritage

What is heritage?
“I explain that heritage is what ever each
one of us individually or collectively wish to
preserve and pass on to the next
generation. If we want to preserve
something, then it is our heritage.”
‘Is everything heritage?’
by François LeBlanc, 1993

who decides?

Values
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| Natural Built Persons Traditions
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/-You
/-Family
/-Community
/-Region
/-Province/State
/-Country
/-World

how?
How do we preserve our heritage for future
generations?

By passing it on.

The history of ‘passing it
on’

\"Musei Wormiani Historia\", the frontispiece from the Museum Wormianum depicting Ole Worm's cabinet of curiosities, public
domain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Musei_Wormiani_Historia.jpg

The British Museum from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:British_Museum_from_NE_2.JPG GNU FDL

www
2 stages:
1. ‘I show you’
2. I show you and you show others’

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exclusive rights to
republish

‘look but don’t touch’

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‘take what you need and
pass it on’

renewing the commons
• Creative Commons copyright
• renewal of the public domain
• testing the boundaries of fair use

From the age of access
to the age of the
amateur

user-created content is
soaring
- 5,000 bloggers in SA
- PDFbooks.co.za
- open education
- zoopy.com for video

‘pass it on’ copyright is ‘some rights
reserved’ or in the public domain