The Collections Trust is a UK-based charity that promotes standards and best practices in collections management. This document summarizes a seminar presented by the Collections Trust on copyright issues affecting museums. It discusses how two museums, York Museums Trust and Derby Museum and Art Gallery, have adopted open content licensing strategies to share their digital collections online. Both cases demonstrate positive outcomes from increased access and visibility, though each museum has different policies around what content can be shared openly. The document concludes by advising museums to consider their mission and goals when developing an open content strategy.
Striking the Balance - public access and commercial reuse of digital contentCollections Trust
Presentation to the Association of Cultural Enterprises Picture Library Symposium on the subject of how UK museums are striking the balance between public access to and commercial reuse of digital cultural content.
Europeana Fashion @Innovathens March 2016Marco Rendina
A presentation on the main achievements of the Europeana Fashion International Association, with a special focus on the GLAM-wiki collaboration we carried-on, organising a series of edit-a-thon around Europe, involving the most important fashion museums and archives and the local Wikipedia chapters.
Fashion is an important part of the European Cultural Heritage, and it is increasingly recognised for its important research value to other academic disciplines, including arts, culture, sociology and communication. Since the beginning of the XX century some of the most important public and private cultural institutions and museums of applied arts in Europe have begun collecting and preserving garments, accessories, catalogues, fashion magazines and other documents and materials related to fashion.
This has resulted in a growing number of impressive and unique collections that Europeana Fashion will bring together online.
Despite the growing importance of fashion heritage, there is a lack of freely accessible fashion content and contextual information on-line.
That’s why the Europeana Fashion project has started a collaboration with the local Wikimedia Chapters around Europe -and not only- with the aim to bring new fashion related knowledge and content to Wikipedia, the World free encyclopaedia.
Since March 2013, the Europeana Fashion partners are organising a series of events in collaboration with Wikimedia, called edit-a-thons, in which volunteers from the Wikipedia support organisation and a crowd of students, bloggers, researchers, curators and fashionistas come together to edit and contribute new fashion related information to Wikipedia, using content made available by Europeana Fashion.
In his presentation, Marco Rendina will tell more about this collaboration and how it has started an online relationship that could expand our understanding of the fashion heritage and the online available knowledge of the fashion domain at large.
For more information on the project, please visit:
http://www.europeanafashion.eu
Striking the Balance - public access and commercial reuse of digital contentCollections Trust
Presentation to the Association of Cultural Enterprises Picture Library Symposium on the subject of how UK museums are striking the balance between public access to and commercial reuse of digital cultural content.
Europeana Fashion @Innovathens March 2016Marco Rendina
A presentation on the main achievements of the Europeana Fashion International Association, with a special focus on the GLAM-wiki collaboration we carried-on, organising a series of edit-a-thon around Europe, involving the most important fashion museums and archives and the local Wikipedia chapters.
Fashion is an important part of the European Cultural Heritage, and it is increasingly recognised for its important research value to other academic disciplines, including arts, culture, sociology and communication. Since the beginning of the XX century some of the most important public and private cultural institutions and museums of applied arts in Europe have begun collecting and preserving garments, accessories, catalogues, fashion magazines and other documents and materials related to fashion.
This has resulted in a growing number of impressive and unique collections that Europeana Fashion will bring together online.
Despite the growing importance of fashion heritage, there is a lack of freely accessible fashion content and contextual information on-line.
That’s why the Europeana Fashion project has started a collaboration with the local Wikimedia Chapters around Europe -and not only- with the aim to bring new fashion related knowledge and content to Wikipedia, the World free encyclopaedia.
Since March 2013, the Europeana Fashion partners are organising a series of events in collaboration with Wikimedia, called edit-a-thons, in which volunteers from the Wikipedia support organisation and a crowd of students, bloggers, researchers, curators and fashionistas come together to edit and contribute new fashion related information to Wikipedia, using content made available by Europeana Fashion.
In his presentation, Marco Rendina will tell more about this collaboration and how it has started an online relationship that could expand our understanding of the fashion heritage and the online available knowledge of the fashion domain at large.
For more information on the project, please visit:
http://www.europeanafashion.eu
Museums are moving increasingly to open up their stored collections for access and use by the public. This presentation, part of a series for the UK Museums Association, looks at the organisational and policy challenges and opportunities they are experiencing.
Copyright challenges and policy choices in European heritage projects Tools, ...Phonothèque MMSH
La journée soutenue par le LabexMed (https://labexmed.hyptheses.org) ainsi que le Consortium Musica de la TGIR Huma-Num (https://humanum.hypotheses.org/503) s’inscrivait dans le cadre du projet de rédaction d’un recueil de bonnes pratiques sur les questions juridiques et éthiques pour la diffusion des données de la recherche en sciences humaines sociales (https://ethiquedroit.hypotheses.org).
Jisc MediaHub presentation, part of the Jisc Collections session for the College Development Network’s Getting Best Value from College Licences event, 26 February 2015
Europeana & IIIF - what we have been doing with IIIF and whyDavid Haskiya
Slides supporting my presentation at the IIIF Outreach event at the Rijksmuseum, October 18 2016. The presentation covered why we at Europeana have chose to join the IIIF community and adopt the protocol in our own stack. It includes examples of what we have developed and also what we have in the development pipeline.
Presentation of the GLAMwiki toolset at Best in Heritage 2016David Haskiya
Presentation of the GLAMwiki toolset at Best in Heritage 2016 in Dubrovnik. The presentation focuses on how museums,archives and libraries can share their digital collections with Wikipedia and in so doing reach a much larger and international audience than what they can otherwise.
This presentation highlights the use of open educational resources (OER) to help raise awareness of historic and modern slavery. Resources are provided in different formats to encourage use by teachers in secondary, further education, higher education and in communities.
Today I want to talk about abundance, the deluge of content that we produce, also in the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM)-sector. How can we make such abundance of content meaningful and useful to citizens, researchers, educators and students? How can we make it easier for them to find that specific needle in the haystack?
Presented at the Erasme-Descartes conference, October 14, 2016.
The unique value of cultural heritage has long been recognized together with the need for accurate and detailed information in order to preserve and manage cultural heritage material. Any organization whose mission includes promoting access to information is aware of the value of digital collections. For the last few years, digital technology has become very familiar in cultural organizations, providing enhanced access to the content. This paper gives information about Ktisis (http://ktisis.cut.ac.cy), the institutional repository of the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). Ktisis was developed by the Library and Information Services of CUT. The paper reflects on the technical issues that the Library had to face in the preparation of this project and the strategy that had to be defined in order to tackle them. Such issues, among others, include the file and metadata format, the design and implementation software, etc.
Funding Now - Current Trends for Museum Funding with the Heritage Lottery FundMuseums & Heritage Show
Speaker: Fiona Talbott, Head of Museums, Libraries and Archives, Heritage Lottery Fund - This session will take a look at the current trends in successful awards to museum projects from the Heritage Lottery Fund and pass on lessons learnt to potential grantees. In addition it will take a look at possible future directions for funding under HLF’s next strategic plan.
Sam Donvil of PACKED vzw Center for Digital Heritage zooms in on the perspective of the citizen who wants to access, engage with and use out-of-copyright publicly funded cultural heritage, but also that of the heritage institution, which can share and enrich its knowledge about their collections by publishing their data as linked open data. This requires a fundamental change in how a heritage institution sees its role in society and the way it provides services towards its audience. The Wikimedia ecosystem (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons) provides a good environment in which cultural heritage institutions can experiment with redefining themselves as truly open institutions. Public Domain Day provides a low-threshold context for institutions to start small and donate data and images of artists that died 70 years ago and therefore entered the public domain.
The effective management of a museum is all about balancing risks, whether to people, the objects, buildings, trading activities or information resources. This presentation provides an entry-level overview to basic risk management for museum professionals.
Museums are moving increasingly to open up their stored collections for access and use by the public. This presentation, part of a series for the UK Museums Association, looks at the organisational and policy challenges and opportunities they are experiencing.
Copyright challenges and policy choices in European heritage projects Tools, ...Phonothèque MMSH
La journée soutenue par le LabexMed (https://labexmed.hyptheses.org) ainsi que le Consortium Musica de la TGIR Huma-Num (https://humanum.hypotheses.org/503) s’inscrivait dans le cadre du projet de rédaction d’un recueil de bonnes pratiques sur les questions juridiques et éthiques pour la diffusion des données de la recherche en sciences humaines sociales (https://ethiquedroit.hypotheses.org).
Jisc MediaHub presentation, part of the Jisc Collections session for the College Development Network’s Getting Best Value from College Licences event, 26 February 2015
Europeana & IIIF - what we have been doing with IIIF and whyDavid Haskiya
Slides supporting my presentation at the IIIF Outreach event at the Rijksmuseum, October 18 2016. The presentation covered why we at Europeana have chose to join the IIIF community and adopt the protocol in our own stack. It includes examples of what we have developed and also what we have in the development pipeline.
Presentation of the GLAMwiki toolset at Best in Heritage 2016David Haskiya
Presentation of the GLAMwiki toolset at Best in Heritage 2016 in Dubrovnik. The presentation focuses on how museums,archives and libraries can share their digital collections with Wikipedia and in so doing reach a much larger and international audience than what they can otherwise.
This presentation highlights the use of open educational resources (OER) to help raise awareness of historic and modern slavery. Resources are provided in different formats to encourage use by teachers in secondary, further education, higher education and in communities.
Today I want to talk about abundance, the deluge of content that we produce, also in the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM)-sector. How can we make such abundance of content meaningful and useful to citizens, researchers, educators and students? How can we make it easier for them to find that specific needle in the haystack?
Presented at the Erasme-Descartes conference, October 14, 2016.
The unique value of cultural heritage has long been recognized together with the need for accurate and detailed information in order to preserve and manage cultural heritage material. Any organization whose mission includes promoting access to information is aware of the value of digital collections. For the last few years, digital technology has become very familiar in cultural organizations, providing enhanced access to the content. This paper gives information about Ktisis (http://ktisis.cut.ac.cy), the institutional repository of the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). Ktisis was developed by the Library and Information Services of CUT. The paper reflects on the technical issues that the Library had to face in the preparation of this project and the strategy that had to be defined in order to tackle them. Such issues, among others, include the file and metadata format, the design and implementation software, etc.
Funding Now - Current Trends for Museum Funding with the Heritage Lottery FundMuseums & Heritage Show
Speaker: Fiona Talbott, Head of Museums, Libraries and Archives, Heritage Lottery Fund - This session will take a look at the current trends in successful awards to museum projects from the Heritage Lottery Fund and pass on lessons learnt to potential grantees. In addition it will take a look at possible future directions for funding under HLF’s next strategic plan.
Sam Donvil of PACKED vzw Center for Digital Heritage zooms in on the perspective of the citizen who wants to access, engage with and use out-of-copyright publicly funded cultural heritage, but also that of the heritage institution, which can share and enrich its knowledge about their collections by publishing their data as linked open data. This requires a fundamental change in how a heritage institution sees its role in society and the way it provides services towards its audience. The Wikimedia ecosystem (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons) provides a good environment in which cultural heritage institutions can experiment with redefining themselves as truly open institutions. Public Domain Day provides a low-threshold context for institutions to start small and donate data and images of artists that died 70 years ago and therefore entered the public domain.
The effective management of a museum is all about balancing risks, whether to people, the objects, buildings, trading activities or information resources. This presentation provides an entry-level overview to basic risk management for museum professionals.
Presentation to the London Museums Group's event on 'Resilience' looking at different things that have turned out to be resilient and what museums could learn from them.
Museums Association Seminar Presentation - Practical support for Accreditatio...Collections Trust
Presentation given by Paul Fraser Webb, Collections Manager at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, at the MA Conference, October 2011.
Paul presents a case study of how the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust responded to an invitation to pilot the 2011 New Accreditation Scheme; the changes they made; the guidance they found helpful and what they achieved.
The Collections Trust seminars are a one-day interactive workshop for people working in collections management.
They will look at the changing needs and expectations of museum audiences and how collections management practice and digital technology can help meet them. The workshop will cover:
• Being an effective advocate for the wider impact of collections management
• Using collections management to help your museum improve its services and its sustainability
• The relationship between Museum Accreditation and SPECTRUM as the standard for collections management
• How to develop a strategic approach to your collections and digital work
• How to ensure that your internal policies, procedures and systems are fit for the future
Introducing the Collections Trust's 'Going Digital' programme 2014/15Collections Trust
General introduction to the scope, aims and context of the Collections Trust's 'Going Digital' campaign - supporting museums in reviewing, auditing and developing their use of technology to improve visitor services and organisational management.
Introducing 'Investors in Collections' - a new development tool for museumsCollections Trust
Introduction to the Collections Trust's 'Investors in Collections' a new development tool and award for museums recognizing excellence in Collections Management practice.
Many museums are considering how to use open licenses to support the delivery of their public mission and increase their visitor numbers. In this presentation, Nick Poole explores two case studies and provides some simple steps for museums wanting to 'open up' their collections online.
The OpenGLAM community: promoting free & open access to digital cultural heritage | Lieke Ploeger, Open Knowledge Foundation at http://books2ebooks.eu/eod2014
Alastair Dunning's Presentation from the JISC Digital Content Partnerships event (28 October 2010), looking at Strand A of Grant call 11/10 on Enriching via Collaboration, and grant call 16/10 on Rapid Digitisation
Creative Commons for Education, Science, Government, Culture, Media and Platf...Paul_Stacey
Presentation video taped at Folkbildningsrådet in Stockholm 28-Jan-2014. Folkbildningsrådet is the Swedish agency responsible for Swedens folk high schools, learning circles and adult education.
Return on Investment for the Content IndustriesSimon Tanner
Content for Management for Digital Content Industries optional module taught as part of the Masters in Digital Media and Asset Management at King's College London
CILIP is the UK's library and information association. In this presentation to the London Museums, Archives and Libraries Group (MLAG), CEO Nick Poole explores CILIP's current position on Open Access alongside future opportunities and challenges.
‘Everything Available’ – a vision for the development of the British Library ...Torsten Reimer
Presentation given at the annual RLUK (Research Libraries UK) conference on Thursday 9th March 2017. I discuss the British Library's 'Everything Available' portfolio that aims to transform the Library's research services, in particular around discovery, access and use of content.
A basic introduction to the key themes an issues relating to the management and stewardship of cultural property in museum, library, archive and gallery (cultural heritage) collections.
Presentation to the 2D & 3D Digitisation conference at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam looking at the challenge and opportunity of embedding photograpy into collections management practice in museums.
Nothing About Us Without Us: Community engagement & technology in museums Collections Trust
Presentation to the Churches Conservation Trust looking at the ways in which community engagement and technology are helping shape a new relationship between museums and their audience.
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The Collections Trust has created over £15m in successful grant proposals since 2008. In this presentation, CEO Nick Poole explores what it takes to write an effective grant proposal, what to avoid and where to look for funding.
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Introduction to the legal and professional management of cultural property in museums, presented at the UK Registrars Group event in Birmingham, May 2014
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
Preliminary findings _OECD field visits to ten regions in the TSI EU mining r...OECDregions
Preliminary findings from OECD field visits for the project: Enhancing EU Mining Regional Ecosystems to Support the Green Transition and Secure Mineral Raw Materials Supply.
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Monitoring Health for the SDGs - Global Health Statistics 2024 - WHOChristina Parmionova
The 2024 World Health Statistics edition reviews more than 50 health-related indicators from the Sustainable Development Goals and WHO’s Thirteenth General Programme of Work. It also highlights the findings from the Global health estimates 2021, notably the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale behind the 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance outlined in 2 CFR 200, and their implications for federal grant recipients.
- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
- Gain proficiency in applying the updated regulations to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements and avoid potential audit findings.
- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
2. The Collections Trust is...
...the professional association
for people who work in
Collections Management
3. Established 1977
• To promote the education of the public by the development of museums
and similar organisations by all appropriate methods;
• To develop, promote, maintain and improve standards of collections and
information management in museums, art galleries, heritage
organisations and other collections institutions;
• To provide services and resources which improve the standards and
methods of collections management and use.
4. UK-based Charity
• As a professional association, our work encompasses:
– Promoting professional standards in Collections Management
– Developing the Collections Management workforce
– Advocating for the value and impact of Collections
5. Special programmes
• We develop programmes addressing key issues and opportunities in
collections management & digitisation:
– Security www.collectionstrust.org.uk/security
– Energy efficiency www.collectionstrust.org.uk/energy-efficiency
– Pests! www.collectionstrust.org.uk/pest-management
– Insurance www.collectionstrust.org.uk/insurance
– Participation www.collectionstrust.org.uk/participation
– Going Digital www.collectionstrust.org.uk/going-digital
– Copyright & licensing www.collectionstrust.org.uk/copyright-and-licensing
6. Copyright and licensing
We provide free resources to help museums with copyright issues and we’re
addressing how recent legal reforms to copyright affect museums.
•Free resources at www.collectionstrust.org.uk/copyright-and-licensing
•Today’s seminar! (18 February 2015, London)
www.collectionstrust.org.uk/copyright-seminar
•Copyright: A Practical Guide – updated 2nd edition available to order today:
www.collectionstrust.org.uk/shop (Print version £24.99, ebook version
£20.00)
9. Government Policy
• IP management & legislation as a tool for innovation & economic growth
• A ‘knowledge-intensive, creative economy’ (BIS, 2014)
• Austerity policy resulting in an estimated 37% net reduction in public
spending (excluding policing, schools & housing) since 2010-11*
• Real-terms increases in costs and demands creating additional pressure on
discretionary budgets
• Greater emphasis on self-generated revenue and enterprise
* http://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Impact-of-funding-reductions-on-local-authorities.pdf
10. “It matters that our businesses, as well as other creators, can
protect their ideas, can spot and seize new opportunities, and
can exploit them both at home and abroad. IP is, quite simply,
vital to the economic well-being of the UK.”
Baroness Neville-Rolfe, Minister for Intellectual Property
11. “The UK’s trailblazing orphan works licensing scheme enables
access to a wider range of our culturally important works. The
scheme has been designed to protect right holders and give
them a proper return if they reappear, while ensuring that
citizens and consumers will be able to access more of our
country’s great creations, more easily.”
Baroness Neville-Rolfe, Minister for Intellectual Property
13. Visitor Trends
• “New figures published today [12th February 2015] reveal 49 million visits
were made to the 16 museums and galleries directly funded by the DCMS last
year, a four per cent increase on 2012/13 (47 million) and a record high since
the first data was published in 2002/03.” (DCMS)
• Heritage tourism contributes £20.6 billion to the UK GDP, more than the
advertising or film industries. It supports a total of 466,000 jobs. Heritage is
the main motivation for 30% of all international visits, while 14% of domestic-
tourism day trips are motivated by heritage. (HLF & VisitBritain)
• Visitors to independent museums (estimated to be over 9 million) are said to
deliver £364m of gross impacts from visitor spending. (Museums Association)
14. Professional values
• Protecting the integrity of collections
• Maintaining services
• Promoting public access to and engagement with heritage
• Delivering educational benefit & impact
• Maintaining public trust
• Maximising sustainability & competitiveness
15. Outcomes
• Increased pressure on budgets
• Emphasis on realising financial value of IP in and associated with collections
• Tension between:
– Promoting commercial re-use of content
– Promoting open access to and use of heritage material
• Different risk appetite
• Investment & capacity gap in both directions
17. Defining terms: open
• “A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and
redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or
share-alike.”
www.opendefinition.org
• This means that something is useable by all without the need to ask permission
by the (rights) owner of a work.
• Open Culture or Open GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) is a
movement that tries to help cultural institution to open up their collections: to
make them available to all for reuse without the need to asking permission.
(Source: ‘Open Data for #GLAMS’, P2P University)
18. Open knowledge
• “Open knowledge is what open data becomes when it is useful, usable and used.
The characteristics of openness are:
• Availability and access: the data must be available as a whole and at no more than
a reasonable reproduction cost, preferably by downloading over the internet. The
data must also be available in a convenient and modifiable form.
• Reuse and redistribution: the data must be provided under terms that permit
reuse and redistribution including the intermixing with other datasets. The data
must be machine-readable.
• Universal participation: everyone must be able to use, reuse and redistribute —
there should be no discrimination against fields of endeavour or against persons or
groups. For example, ‘non-commercial’ restrictions that would prevent
‘commercial’ use, or restrictions of use for certain purposes (e.g. only in education),
are not allowed.
(Source: Open Knowledge Foundation definition of ‘Open Data’)
19. Defining terms: reuse
• Describes a wide spectrum of activities and applications of digital cultural
content undertaken by 3rd
parties
21. Degrees of ‘open’
• Attitudes and approaches to ‘open’ reuse of museum content exist along a
sliding scale:
‘Radically’
open
Fully
commercial
22. Degrees of ‘open’
• Attitudes and approaches to ‘open’ reuse of museum content exist along a
sliding scale:
‘Radically’
open
Fully
commercial
Toe in the
water
23. Degrees of ‘open’
• Attitudes and approaches to ‘open’ reuse of museum content exist along a
sliding scale:
‘Radically’
open
Fully
commercial
Toe in the
water
Mission
driven
24. Degrees of ‘open’
• Attitudes and approaches to ‘open’ reuse of museum content exist along a
sliding scale:
‘Radically’
open
Fully
commercial
Toe in the
water
Mission
driven
Steady
state
25. Degrees of ‘open’
• Attitudes and approaches to ‘open’ reuse of museum content exist along a
sliding scale:
‘Radically’
open
Fully
commercial
Thinking
about it
Toe in the
water
Mission
driven
Steady
state
26.
27. Open is a business model
If you are not trading on your
brand or the uniqueness of
your collection, the chances
are an open strategy will drive
additional value to your
traditional revenue model
28. ‘Open’ drives sales
• There are isolated examples of museums for whom ‘going open’ (as in
licensing their digital content fully openly for both commercial and non-
commercial reuse) has driven significant increases across existing revenue-
generating activities
Source: ‘Democratising the Rijksmuseum’ Joris Pekel
29. Deciding what to share...
‘Radically’
open
Fully
commercial
‘Primary’
content
‘Discovery’
content
36. Case Study 1. Sharing
collections online at York
Museums Trust
37.
38. York Museums Trust
• Formed in 2002 as an independent Trust
• Managing a range of venues and sites across York
• Funded since 2012 as a Major Partner Museum
• Early investment in documentation & information systems
• Digitisation providing high-quality content to reinforce offline offer
46. Conditions
• Conditions associated with re-use:
• All images currently published in the online collection are free from known
third-party copyright restrictions
• All images in the online collection are free to download
• All images in the online collection are licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 or Public
Domain
• York Museums Trust expects to be attributed whenever an online
collection image is used
47. Constraints
• “We have not yet released any images that have (or we suspect have)
copyright restrictions – like pictures of modern art, images of magazine covers
or photos of chocolate boxes. To use an image of a copyrighted work we
would have to seek permission from the person or persons who hold the
copyright. We would also have to negotiate terms of use.”
• Public Domain and CC BY-SA 4.0 materials are subject to a request for
attribution, eg:
“Image courtesy of York Museum Trust :: http://yorkmuseumtrust.org.uk/ ::
CC BY-SA 4.0”
48. Outcomes
• Outcomes of Wikimedian in Residence and GLAM-WIKI collaboration reported
as very positive
• Content relating to the Middleham Hoard incorporated into front-page article
generating some 6,000 views
• Positive outcomes in terms of profile, coverage and reputation
• “What actually surprised me most was the personal knowledge I gained about
the history of our collections. This in turn sparked my thinking that this is a
strong platform on which to spread knowledge of our collections to the
world.”
Mike Linstead, Digital Marketing Officer
49. ““It is the core mission of the Trust
to maximise access to the collection.
If you can do it for free, and give it to
as many people as possible, that’s
compatible with our mission. There’s
no marginal cost to sharing content
in this way, and it is ultimately what
we are there for.”
- Mike Woodward, YMT
50. Case Study 2. Sharing
collections images from
Derby Museum and Art
Gallery
57. Outcomes
• 1,250 new articles on Wikipedia
• Over 100 articles in Russian, French, Czech, Catalan, Belorussion & others
• New articles in more than 28 languages & innovative QR code project
58. Decision-making process
• Start with your Mission (which should articulate how you will deliver value for
your audiences)
• Quantify your goals, whether in terms of engagement, revenue or other value
• Quantify your business drivers, including your costs and anticipated gains
• Review the value in your collection & associated brand equity
• Develop an Action Plan with key stages for monitoring and review
• Iterate, evaluate & iterate again
59. Doing nothing is not an
option
“At the moment, [sharing our
digital content for open re-
use] is an opportunity. But it’s
an opportunity that pretty
soon is going to turn into a
threat.”
60. Keep in touch!
LinkedIn community (8,000+ members)
www.twitter.com/collectiontrust
www.facebook.com/collectionstrust
www.slideshare.net/collectionstrust
Nick Poole
@NickPoole1
nick@collectionstrust.org.uk
61. Copyright: a practical guide
Copyright: a practical guide written by expert Naomi Korn, with Gordon McKenna, is the
essential reference for managing copyright in a collection. The second edition for 2015,
available soon, reflects the latest copyright changes.
Pre-order your copy now
www.collectionstrust.org.uk/publications