The document discusses strategies for publishing archival content online with a focus on open access and copyright considerations. It emphasizes the importance of identifying rights-free opportunities and encourages collaboration with curators to connect old collections to current events. Key lessons learned include patience, organization, and starting small to increase online reach and reuse of materials.

1. A blast from the past: move forward & open up!

2. Maartje Hülsenbeck & Ruurd Blom
A blast the past: move forward & open up!
Open Access: identifying rights free
opportunities in your own collection

3. Stillfrom:Kitschorart?,PolygoonHollandsNieuwsweek26in1981,
CC-BY-SA,source:OpenImages
Collections online
• ambition to publish online
• open access
• need for structure

4. https://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en/knowl
edge/knowledge-
themes/users/copyright/flowchart
http://fiatifta.org/index.php/media/flowcha
rt-online-publication/
Identifying rights free opportunities in your own collection

5. Still from: Flowers from
buttercup in close up, Nature
Images (Veldkijker, Willem
Berents), 2013, CC-BY-SA,
source: Open Images

6. Stilluit:Gopie:vakantieinvoor-ennazomer,01-01-1968,Postbus51,RVD
Annual release calendar
• old collections
• upcoming events
• public domain

7. Assessment of contracts
Stilluit:Koninklijkebibliotheekbestaat150jaar,PolygoonHollands
Nieuwsvanweek49uit1948,publiekdomein(per1-1-2019)
● memo
● risk assessment

8. Stillfrom:RoyalLibrary150year,PolygoonHollandsNieuwsweek49
in1948,PublicDomain,source:OpenImages
Credits on films
● credits: organisation or
individual person?
● IPR form
● privacy

9. Organisation

10. Independent person

12. Still uit: 30 jaar radio-techniek,
Polygoon Hollands Nieuws van
week 10 uit 1948, publiek
domein (per 1-1-2019)
Risk analysis (copyright)
risk reduction:
● Streaming
vs
● open
downloadable

13. Stillfrom:InternationalCourtofJustice,1stmeetingafterWO2,Polygoon
HollandsNieuwsweek9in1948,PublicDomain,
source:OpenImages
● in-house Privacy Officer
Risk analysis (privacy)
● privacy interests
vs
● freedom of
expression

14. Stilluit:Computerart,PolygoonHollandsNieuwsvanweek12uit
1986,CC-BY-SA,source:OpenImages)
Documentation of results
• capture in MAM
• IPR form
• IPR, privacy, ethical check outcomes
• rights status

15. Connect old collections to current events
● input curators
● 2020: 75 years of freedom after WO2

16. Film collections

17. Photos

18. Objects

19. Stillfrom:BevrijdingRotterdam,
06-05-1945,PolygoonProfilti
Right to quote
Conditions:
1 lawfully made public
2 reasonably acceptable; number and size
3 moral rights and
4 source reference (incl. author’s name)

20. beeldengeluid.nl/tilt
Right to quote: TILT

21. Examples of creative reuse

22. Reach via Wikipedia

23. Still from: Flowers from
buttercup in close up, Nature
Images (Veldkijker, Willem
Berents), 2013, CC-BY-SA,
source: Open Images
Public domain day 2020

24. pdday.org

25. Lessons learned
● patience
● new MAM, technical difficulties
● reorganization
● time consuming
● start small with goal to donate more
Stillfrom:AutofilmpjevdMark,adverstisementWolseleyautomobiles
01-06-1937,publicdomain

26. Stilluit:30jaarradio-techniek,PolygoonHollandsNieuwsvanweek10uit
1948,publiekdomein(per1-1-2019)
Conclusion
● share collections
● partner up
● big chances online reach
● encourage reuse

27. VIDEO STROOMSCHEMA
INVOEGEN!
Flowchart trailer

28. Stillfrom:Victoriaverkoopflitsen,adverstisementhowtoshowcase&
sellyourproducts,01-01-1947,publicdomain
That’s it!
Maartje Hülsenbeck & Ruurd Blom
mhulsenbeck@beeldengeluid.nl
rblom@beeldengeluid.nl

29. A blast from the past: move forward & open up!