[OpenGLAM] Display At Your Own Risk (open source exhibition)

Tue Apr 26 12:08:53 UTC 2016

Display At Your Own Risk (open source exhibition)

An experimental exhibition of digital cultural heritage – Display At Your
Own Risk – is launched online today (April 26) to mark World Intellectual
Property Day 2016. The theme of the day, ‘Digital Creativity: Culture
Reimagined’ (http://www.wipo.int/ip-outreach/en/ipday/), is reflected in
the online exhibition organized by researchers from  the University of
Glasgow-based  CREATe - the RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business
Models in the Creative Economy.

Andrea Wallace (University of Glasgow) and Professor Ronan Deazley (Queen’s
University Belfast) have created Display At Your Own Risk (
http://www.displayatyourownrisk.org) as a celebration of the extraordinary
efforts of museums, galleries, and archives of international repute in
making their collections available online. This project also explores the
legal risks and challenges involved in making this digital cultural
heritage available to all.

The open source exhibition features 100 digital surrogates (a digital copy
of an original cultural artefact created for preservation or archival
purposes) selected from internationally-renowned institutions around the
world, and invites and enables users to curate their own exhibitions as
desired.

In Downloads (http://displayatyourownrisk.org/download/) you can find the
open source exhibition file (available now), as well as a Display At Your
Own Risk poster (coming soon). The open source file is organized according
to categories of risk informed by whether the relevant institution makes
any copyright claim over the digital surrogate, the copyright law relevant
to the institution’s jurisdiction, and the contractual terms and conditions
set out on the institution’s website. When there is little to no risk in
making use of the digital surrogate without the express permission of the
institution, the print files are made available, resized to the public
domain work’s original dimensions. When the possible risks are higher or
uncertain, instructions for how to access, resize, and print the digital
surrogate are included in place of the print file. Citation information is
also included for each work, as are the terms of use specified by each
institution.

Finally, the exhibition file contains the research data underpinning this
project. You can read more about the research process and methodology
informing Display At Your Own Risk in Publications (
http://displayatyourownrisk.org/publications/).

By making the exhibition available online and open source, we hope to
enable users to stage their own exhibitions all over the world – whether at
home, in a place of work, a local park, by the ocean, or in a favourite bar
or restaurant – all working towards a pop-up Gallery Exhibition in Glasgow
on 8 June 2016. More importantly, perhaps, we hope to encourage users to
enjoy, engage with, and create their own relationships with these wonderful
works.

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*Andrea Wallace*, Esq, BFA, JD, LLM
University of Glasgow School of Law
PhD Candidate in Cultural Heritage Law and Postgraduate Researcher with the
CREATe RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative
Economy in partnership with the National Library of Scotland
@andeewallace
+44 (0) 798 324 4770
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