[Open-education] Fwd: [Openglam_members] [OpenGLAM] Renewed Open Collections page

Thu Jun 11 16:02:07 UTC 2015

Hopefully of interest to the list - some great educational resources in 
these collections...

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Subject: 	[Openglam_members] [OpenGLAM] Renewed Open Collections page
Date: 	Thu, 11 Jun 2015 17:57:18 +0200
From: 	Lieke Ploeger <lieke.ploeger at okfn.org>
To: 	<openglam_members at lists.okfn.org> (openglam_members at lists.okfn.org) 
<openglam_members at lists.okfn.org>

Dear all,

We are happy to now widely share and announce our renewed Open 
Collections page on the OpenGLAM blog at 
http://openglam.org/2015/06/11/openglam-open-collections.

Our OpenGLAM Open Collections page, we provide a global and curated 
overview of open cultural content online. Over the last months, we 
haveÂ completed a restyle of the page: it is now delivered through the 
wonderful Omeka software platform. This means you easily search, locate 
collections on a map, comment on or tag collections. Searching by tag 
allows you to quickly look for material that fits your purpose. You can 
either visit the page through the OpenGLAM site at 
http://openglam.org/open-collections/, or directly through 
http://open-collections.okfn.org/.

When we call these collections open, we mean they are licensed in a way 
that is compliant with the Open Definition. Popular ones for data 
include CC-0 and for content CC-BY or CC-BY-SA are often used. A part of 
the collections fully meet our OpenGLAM principles, for example by 
keeping works for which copyright has expired in the public domain by 
not adding new rights to them. These collections have been awarded the 
OpenGLAM Badge of Approval (seeÂ 
http://open-collections.okfn.org/exhibits/show/open/badge).

Currently we have 53 open collections and 9 lists of open collections in 
our database. We'??re quite sure that there is a lot more open 
collections out there, and we would love to add them with your help. If 
you know of an open collection that should be in here, you can sign up 
for our Omeka platform through this link 
<http://open-collections.okfn.org/guest-user/user/register>, and then 
fill in the form on the Contribute page for your open collection to be 
added. Many thanks for your help!

Best regards,

Lieke Ploeger.

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