The document discusses open access principles for cultural heritage institutions. It summarizes feedback from a survey of 109 responses about the existing "Open GLAM Principles" and areas for improvement. Respondents felt the principles need to better acknowledge complexities around cultural knowledge and traditional rights. They also stressed the importance of a human rights perspective in ensuring access to cultural heritage. There was a suggestion that the principles require endorsement and support from relevant cultural organizations to be effective. The document outlines current work to develop an "Open GLAM Declaration" and "GLAM White Paper" to advance open access conversations for cultural heritage.

1. What Open Access
principles do we need
for cultural heritage?
By Douglas McCarthy, Stacy Allison-Cassin & Evelin Heidel (aka Scann)
17 September 2019, Sharing is Caring Stockholm
CC BY 4.0

2. What is Open GLAM?

3. A community,
a space,
a set of shared values

4. What are the
“Open GLAM
Principles”?

5. https://openglam.org/principles

6. We wanted to find out:
- are the Principles accurate and
relevant?
- what’s missing?
So, we did a survey.

7. We got 109 responses.
For more information, check
out Sandra’s Medium post on
the survey:
https://link.medium.com/XuySnT4nTZ
Here are some verbatim
responses...

8. “Information with personal, cultural
or social constraints, such as
traditional knowledge, should not
just be ‘released’.
We require some acknowledgement
of the complexities of cultural
knowledge.”

9. “Greater emphasis must be placed
on the human rights perspective.
Access to cultural heritage is a right
enshrined in several human rights
charters and declarations.”

10. “Open Data, etc. are not relevant
organisations in the cultural field.
They [the Principles] need to be
supported by relevant organisations.
We need to have guidelines and
values to discuss; to build up a
better structure and network.”

11. Please help us
answer these
questions...

12. How do we make the
Principles relevant to
GLAM institutions?

13. What would make the
Principles endorsable by
your institution?
What are important
arguments to adopt them?

14. How can the Principles help
to advance the conversation
about open access for
cultural heritage?

15. Current Work
We’re working on these documents:
http://bit.ly/openglam-declaration;
http://bit.ly/glam-wpaper
Draft timetable:
- Declaration White Paper, late 2019
- Partial release, early 2020
- Final Declaration published at the
Creative Commons Summit, May 2020

16. Curated by GLAM professionals and practitioners from all over the world,
exploring issues around openness, from technical challenges to going
open to ethical concerns.
Contributors rotate and tweet in a 2-week period. Sign up here.
Share your story
@openglam

17. We have a space for GLAM
professionals and
practitioners to submit their
stories and news:
https://medium.com/open-glam
The publication is multilingual
and anyone interested can
participate.

18. Thank you
Let’s stay in touch!
E: douglas.mccarthy@europeana.eu
@CultureDoug
linkedin.com/in/douglaskmccarthy