[OpenGLAM] Open Collections

[Joris Pekel]

Hi Jean-Frédéric,

Thanks for your message. I will definitely look more into collections on
Wiki Commons.
One thing I want to make sure is that the institution has been working
together with Wikimedia in getting their pictures up there and for instance
not the ones that were taken from the Google Art project without involving
the institutions.
This way I want to compliment the institutions who actively made the
decision themselves to open up their collection. When there is a case study
page about this on wikimedia that is even better.

I will get in on with it, thanks!

Best,

Joris


2013/1/29 Jean-Frédéric <jeanfrederic.wiki at gmail.com>

> Hi Joris and list,
>
> Yesterday we published a new section on the OpenGLAM paged: Open
>> Collections. Here we list collections of digitised high quality content
>> that can be shared, used and enjoyed by anyone without any restrictions
>> (Public Domain or CC-BY/CC-BY-SA).
>>
>> We will add more sources to the list over time and also link directly to
>> the licensing information. If you see any datasets that you of that are
>> missing, do let us know so we can add!
>>
>
> There are many collections from GLAM on Wikimedia Commons. They should all
> be in
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_libraries>
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_archives>
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_museums>
>
> Note that some of them might not exactly be considered “open collections”,
> since Wikimedia Commons considers that reproductions of Public Domain works
> are Public Domain (aka the PD-Art policy), hence the collection might have
> been closed to begin with. But if the collection was open, it was certainly
> stated so.
>
> You might also want to check
> <
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_content_partnerships
> >
> which gathers all collections worked out with institutions as part of
> partnerships, and are certainly completely “open” using any definition of
> the word :)
>
> Hope that helps,
> --
> Jean-Frédéric
>



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Joris Pekel
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