This guide introduces you to the GLAM-E method of building an open access program. It gives you a clearer picture of what open means in practice for you, your institution, your collections, and your community. The guide contains practical explanations and considers certain technical, legal, and ethical implications of open GLAM.
This White Paper was written by the GLAM-E Lab and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) to share their experience of making the business case for open access and organising its implementation.
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) is a museum and art gallery in Exeter, UK, with significant and diverse collections in areas like zoology, anthropology, fine art, local and overseas archaeology and geology.
This document sets out policies based on laws in the United States and United Kingdom that will help you identify works in your collection that may be good candidates for your open access program.
This document contains a model open access policy. The policy is designed to be adopted by cultural institutions and organizations and posted on their publicly facing websites. The text can replace or be added to the organization’s existing copyright or collections management policy. Before formally adopting this policy, we recommend auditing your website to make sure that the policy and your site are in alignment.
This submission focuses on the vital role of digital cultural heritage and intellectual property rights to restitution initiatives. We recommend that the Advisory Committee includes a restitution strategy for digital cultural heritage and intellectual property rights in its forthcoming Guidelines to support communities of origin and Austrian institutions.
This study was commissioned by Europeana to support the provision of 3D content to Europeana.eu in line with the Recommendation on a common European data space for cultural heritage.
GLAM3D.org brings together best practices for conceiving, designing, and executing 3D Open Access programs at GLAM institutions. It is an evolving resource and we encourage you to email us at engelberg.center@nyu.edu if you have suggestions for improvements, additions, or corrections. We also welcome suggestions in the form of pull requests or issues in the site’s Github repository.
The National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) is the UK’s largest funder of the cultural heritage sector. Since 1994, The Heritage Fund has awarded £8.8 billion of National Lottery and other funding to more than 51,000 projects across the UK, with the vision that heritage is to be valued, cared for, and sustained for everyone, now and in the future.
The National Lottery Heritage Fund has commissioned the GLAM-E Lab to create resources that range from digitisation good practice to open licensing guidance for funded projects. These include:
