[open-heritage] Tate Online Strategy 2010–12

Mon Nov 22 15:43:51 UTC 2010

Ooh nice spot Rob, thanks!

I can't actually see any details of what the API is or might be, but
I've a way to contact tate (Indirectly through MLA is my inital
approach, unless someone else here has a better route?)

I'm more than happy to raise the issue of licensing the data with
them... Question (For my own benefit really)... apart from being good
citizens.. whats in it for cultural orgs to adopt these licenses? I'm
always worried that my answers to this question is badly lacking, and
that prevents uptake of the licenses... Any suggestions?

(If we can come up with some I can start a page on the wiki - toolkit
for explaining the benefit of OKD-compliant licenses to cultural
institutions or something akin to that)

ian.

On 22 November 2010 15:37, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:
> http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tatepapers/10spring/stack.shtm
>
> "4.4.3  Data sharing
>
> Tate’s collection database will be opened up through a public data feed or
> API (application programming interface) to allow Tate’s collection dataset
> to be accessible to third parties. This will be limited by copyright
> restrictions on images. Through the API, new acquisitions and changes to
> data will be pushed to users. Users will be able to combine Tate’s data with
> that of other organisations, for example, combining multiple museums’
> collections and building visualisations and interpretations of this data or
> cross-collection search and browse interfaces. In all cases references to
> Tate content will need to include a link back to the content’s page on Tate
> Online.
>
> 4.4.4  Commons licences
>
> Most of the content on Tate Online is published under restrictive end-user
> licences. We shall audit these and review what content could be released
> under a more permissive licence that would enable users to reuse and remix
> this content as part of their own creative projects or research.
>
> These new public licences are likely to be based on a commons model,
> focusing on wide distribution which will democratise knowledge and give
> audiences the freedom to share their and Tate work. For example, users could
> take art work images from the collection and share them on their
> non-commercial blogs, social media profiles or online project so long as
> this includes the correct caption information and a link to Tate Online."
>
> This looks like it could be really good.
>
> Does anyone know what kind of licencing the Tate are planning? Attribution,
> clearly, but emphasizing "own creative" and "research" projects makes me
> worried that they might be considering non-commercial restrictions.
>
> Is anyone in contact with them to make sure they use an OKD-compliant
> "commons licence"?
>
> - Rob.
>
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