Open Licensing for Cultural Heritage

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">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&#146;s content, data and metadata. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;&#160;</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><i>Open Licensing for Cultural Heritage </i>digs into
the concept of &#145;open&#146; 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.</p>
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<li>an accessible introduction to relevant concepts, themes, and
names, including &#145;Creative Commons&#146;, &#145;attribution&#146;, model licences, and licence
versions</li>
<li>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</li>
<li>an exploration of the organisational benefits of open licensing
and the open movement</li>
<li>the benefits and risks associated with open licensing</li>
<li>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.</li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">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.</p>
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1. Introduction
2. The Open Movement: its history and development
3. Copyright and licensing: a background
4. Open licensing: the logical option for cultural heritage
5. Small steps, big impact: how SMK became SMK Open
6. Open metadata licensing: the British Library experience
7. Open policy and collaboration with Wikimedia at the National Library of Wales
8. Newcastle Libraries
9. Drivers for open: the development of open licensing at the National Library of Scotland
10. Wellcome Library
11. Development of an OER policy and open approaches to mitigate risk at University of Edinburgh
12. How to implement open licensing at your organisation
13. Using and re-use openly licensed resources
14. Conclusion

<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Gill Hamilton</b>&#160;is Digital Access Manager at the National
Library of Scotland where she leads on access to the Library&#146;s extensive
digital collections, and oversees its resource discovery and library management
systems.<o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Fred Saunderson</b>&#160;is the National Library of Scotland&#146;s
Intellectual Property Specialist where he has responsibility for providing
copyright and intellectual property advice and guidance, as well as
coordinating licensing and re-use procedures.&#160;<o:p></p>