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Open Licensing for Cultural Heritage (Paperback)
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Open Licensing for Cultural Heritage (Paperback)
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This practical and explanatory guide for library and cultural
heritage professionals introduces and explains the use of open
licences for content, data and metadata in libraries and other
cultural heritage organisations. Using rich background information,
international case studies and examples of best practice, this book
outlines how and why open licences should and can be used with the
sector’s content, data and metadata. Open Licensing for Cultural
Heritage digs into the concept of ‘open’ in relation to
intellectual property, providing context through the development of
different fields, including open education, open source, open data,
and open government. It explores the organisational benefits of
open licensing and the open movement, including the importance of
content discoverability, arguments for wider collections impact and
access, the practical benefits of simplicity and scalability, and
more ethical and principled arguments related to protection of
public content and the public domain. Content covered includes: an
accessible introduction to relevant concepts, themes, and names,
including ‘Creative Commons’, ‘attribution’, model
licences, and licence versions distinctions between content that
has been openly licensed and content that is in the public domain
and why professionals in the sector should be aware of these
differences an exploration of the organisational benefits of open
licensing and the open movement the benefits and risks associated
with open licensing a range of practical case studies from
organisations including Newcastle Libraries, the University of
Edinburgh, Statens Museum for Kunst (the National 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 licensing environment, opportunities, risks and approaches to
implementation. This includes library and information
professionals, library and information services (LIS) professionals
working specifically in the digital field (including digital
curation, digitisation, digital production, resource discovery
developers). It will also be of use to students of LIS Science,
digital curation, digital humanities, archives and records
management and museum studies.
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