Overview for open-access

Title: Kvinnor sitter på en bänk invid ...

Creator: Selim Björses

Date: 1936

Institution: National Library of Finland

Country: Finland

CC BY

News Created: 11 February 2021 Ariadna Matas

Copyright office hours: supporting each other with copyright challenges

The Europeana Copyright Community invites you to share your copyright challenges, inspiration and questions in a new, informal discussion forum, beginning 25 February 2021.

Title: Dog in the woods

Creator: Weisz-Kubínčan, Arnold Peter

Date: ca. 1937

Institution: Slovak National Gallery

Country: Slovakia

Public Domain

News Created: 11 January 2021 Jolan Wuyts

#publicdomainday: a few of Europeana's public domain favourites, highlighted for you

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With the 1st of January each year marking Public Domain Day, this month on Europeana Pro we are exploring the public domain and open access to cultural heritage. In this post, members of the Europeana Network Association Communicators and Copyright communities share some of their favourite public domain works available on the Europeana website.

Title: Two Sisters

Creator: Vos, Cornelis de

Date: 1610-1615

Institution: Finnish National Gallery

Country: Finland

CC0

News Created: 14 December 2020 Aleksandra Strzelichowska Marijke Everts

Looking back on GIF IT UP 2020

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Our annual GIF-making contest has now been running for seven years, with its profile and audience participation growing each year. The 2020 edition was no exception, and in this post, we take a look at the achievements of this year’s competition.

Title: Still taken from Europeana 2020 presentation

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Towards a Declaration on Open Access to Cultural Heritage

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This session from Europeana 2020 explores the context of the Declaration and asks for feedback from participants on the "New areas of focus" in the Declaration.

Title: Jenny Lind

Creator: Louis Asher

Date: 1845

Institution: Nationalmuseum

Country: Sweden

Public Domain

News Created: 29 October 2020 Aleksandra Strzelichowska

Why should you open up your digital collections for reuse - explained in GIFs

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As GIF IT UP 2020 comes to a close, we have been delighted by the creativity of the entries, which demonstrate the wonderful ways that openly licensed content can be used and shared by audiences around the world. In this post, we let the GIFs answer the question: why open up digital collections for reuse?

Title: Insects and Fruit

Date: c.1660 - c.1665

Institution: Rijksmuseum

Country: Netherlands

Public Domain

Page Created: 3 March 2020

GIF IT UP

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GIF IT UP is an annual competition which challenges people to reuse digitised cultural heritage material to produce unique gifs and share them online.