Open Licensing for Cultural Heritage

This practical and explanatory guide for library and culturalheritage professionals introduces and explains the use of open licences forcontent, data and metadata in libraries and other cultural heritageorganisations. Using rich background information, international case studiesand examples of best [...]
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This practical and explanatory guide for library and culturalheritage professionals introduces and explains the use of open licences forcontent, data and metadata in libraries and other cultural heritageorganisations. Using rich background information, international case studiesand examples of best practice, this book outlines how and why open licencesshould and can be used with the sector's content, data and metadata. Open Licensing for Cultural Heritage digs intothe concept of `open' in relation to intellectual property, providing contextthrough the development of different fields, including open education, opensource, open data, and open government. It explores the organisational benefitsof open licensing and the open movement, including the importance of contentdiscoverability, arguments for wider collections impact and access, thepractical benefits of simplicity and scalability, and more ethical andprincipled arguments related to protection of public content and the publicdomain.Content covered includes:an accessible introduction to relevant concepts, themes, andnames, including `Creative Commons', `attribution', model licences, and licenceversionsdistinctions between content that has been openly licensed andcontent that is in the public domain and why professionals in the sector shouldbe aware of these differencesan exploration of the organisational benefits of open licensingand the open movementthe benefits and risks associated with open licensinga range of practical case studies from organisations includingNewcastle Libraries, the University of Edinburgh, Statens Museum for Kunst (theNational Gallery of Denmark), and the British Library.This book will be useful reading for staff and policy makers across the gallery, library, archive and museum(GLAM) sector, who need a clear understanding of the open licensingenvironment, opportunities, risks and approaches to implementation. This includeslibrary and information professionals, library and information services (LIS)professionals working specifically in the digital field (including digitalcuration, digitisation, digital production, resource discovery developers). It will also be of use to students of LIS Science, digital curation, digital humanities, archives andrecords management and museum studies.