This is a beginner level Gif making workshop that doesn’t assume any prior experience using graphic editing software tools.
In this introductory workshop learners are guided through the steps to create GIFs using images and materials from museum, library, and archival materials.
Over the course of 1 to 2 hours it looks at the variety of public domain and openly licensed materials on the web that are available for creative re-use, and discuss the ethical responsibilities creators have towards those materials.
This training series was Inspired by Europeanea.Eu's yearly Gif It Up competition.
1. Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
Open Education Resource Advisor
Educational Design and Engagement, LTW
Except where otherwise stated, this document has been licensed CC BY 4.0
Cranes from BL Royal 12 C XIX, f. 40,
Europeana, British Library royal Collection,
Public Domain
Create Gifs from openly
licensed museum, library,
and archival materials.
4. So what are Gifs?
A GIF (with the file extension, .gif) is basically an image file
format that is animated by combining several other images or
frames into a single file.
5. Created by Europeana.eu for GIF IT UP 2017
Source material from the British Library. Public Domain
6. Created by Europeana.eu for GIF IT UP 2017
Source material from the Rijksmuseum. Public Domain
7.
8. Flying Fish, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, CC BY
GIF IT UP 2016 entry by Aupetit Harmonie from
Nanterre, Ile-de-France, France.
Gif It Up is a competition run by
Europeana.eu in October each
year.
Enthusiasts and lovers of the
internet are invited to create
brand new GIFs by remixing
copyright-free and openly licensed
material from four international
digital libraries.
https://gifitup.net/about/
9. Is an area of IPR that covers the rights of
authors of original creative works.
This protection applies for a set period of
time, e.g. 70 years from the death of an
author for a literary work.
Copyright:
10. Copyright Exceptions
The UK Copyright Designs and Patents Act (CDPA) 1988,
sets specific cases in which public interest overwrites the
protection granted to authors / creators.
Exceptions cannot be overridden by contractual terms
and conditions.
12. When the length of copyright protection
expires, the material then enters the
public domain and becomes free for
anyone to use.
Creators can also choose to dedicate their
work to the public domain using CC0.
Public Domain
Public Domain – CC0
13. Is the permission, or authorisation,
to re-use a copyrighted work.
A Licence:
16. CRC Flickr account
• The Centre for Research
Collections’ Flickr account
is an example of an Open
Educational Resource.
• It contains several
hundred images from our
images database
https://www.flickr.com/photo
s/crcedinburgh/albums
17. Go to the following URL for the electronic
version of ‘Adding stickers and effects’
http://edin.ac/2EGAFs6
Stickers and effects
18. Go to the following URL for the electronic
version of ‘Playing with colours’
http://edin.ac/2CwB7Ds
Playing with colours
19. Go to the following URL for the electronic
version of ‘Video to Gif’
http://edin.ac/2HrG7Nc
Video to Gif
20. Go to the following URL for the electronic
version of ‘Altering and animating’
http://edin.ac/2CwFyxP
Altering and animating
21.
22. GIF IT UP 2016 entry by Gualtiero Bertoldi from Padova, Italy. Source material from
The British Library via The European Library via Europeana / @europeanacollections.
23. Once you’ve created a new gif, upload it to
Giphy, then share a link to your gif on the
Padlet:
https://bit.ly/2Hh0snF
To add an item to the Padlet, click on the Pink
+ symbol at the bottom left.
Create and Share!
Open education can encompass many different things. These are just some of the aspects of open education
How do you say it?
Do you use Gifs? Where, and for what purpose?
Do you use Gifs? Where, and for what purpose?
To communicate a message.
I’m looking at you.
Or just for fun.
Europeana.eu is an excellent resource for public domain and openly licensed digital content from galleries, libraries, museums, and archives across Europe.
A Creative Commons (CC) licence is one of several open licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work.
A Creative Commons (CC) licence is one of several open licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work.
A Creative Commons (CC) licence is one of several open licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work.
http://www.images.is.ed.ac.uk is the University of Edinburgh’s online collection of digitised library, galleries, museum, and archival content. Where possible content has been openly licensed, and the library are going back to look at previously digitised images to see where open licences can be applied to encourage re-use and sharing of the collections.
The University’s CRC Flickr account contains a great collection of images from the University’s images database.
Europeana.eu is an excellent resource for public domain and openly licensed digital content from galleries, libraries, museums, and archives across Europe.