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News Created: 29 July 2014
How the Rijksmuseum opened up its collection - a case study
Cultural Heritage Institutions
If you regularly read the Europeana Pro blog, you have probably already heard of the open access policy of the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands. Europeana has, alongside other organisations and initiatives, worked with the museum since 2011 to make their public domain collection available online without restrictions. This has resulted in over 150,000 high resolution images for anyone to view, download, copy, remix, print and use for any purpose they can think of.
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Public Domain Month, 2014
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Europeana
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CC BY-SA
News Created: 18 July 2014
Maintaining a healthy and thriving Public Domain
Cultural Heritage Institutions
Continuing our theme of #PublicDomainMonth, at this week´s Open Knowledge Festival, Europeana together with the OpenGLAM initiative and Dutch think tank Kennisland ran a workshop to discuss how to maintain a healthy and thriving public domain of cultural heritage.
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News Created: 8 July 2014 Julia Fallon
Public Domain Charter 101
Cultural Heritage Institutions
‘Europeana, Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, belongs to the public and must represent the public interest.’
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News Created: 10 June 2014
Tourism & Social Networks Challenges are now open for Applications
Cultural Heritage Institutions
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News Created: 2 June 2014
Outcomes from Europeana Aggregator Forum in the Hague
Cultural Heritage Institutions
On 22-23 May 2014, the Annual Aggregator Forum was organised again at the Royal Library in the Hague. Read about the event and relevant documentation.
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Publication Created: 30 May 2014
Europeana Strategy 2020, Network & Sustainability
Cultural Heritage Institutions
What is under consideration in this paper is the long- term sustainability of Europeana: due to severe cuts in the CEF budget, guidelines demand funded initiatives to ‘become self-sustainable’ after only a couple of years of funding.
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