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Tag: Open Culture Platform
Moving Institutions Toward Open—Building on 6 Years of the Open GLAM Survey
by Creative Commons, Douglas McCarthy, Andrea Wallace Open Culture“Violette Heymann, 1910” by Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection ,CC0. Creative Commons’ Open Culture Platform is supporting 25 institutions in opening up access to their collections by the end of 2025. Members of the Platform community will be working together to create a policy template, conduct outreach,…
Open Culture Platform Activity Fund Winners 2024
by Brigitte Vézina, Jocelyn Miyara Open CultureAs part of the Open Culture Platform’s 2024 work plan, we at Creative Commons are offering funding for community activities. We called for proposals and invited the community to vote on the activities. The projects needed to have a focus on building community through outreach and helping institutions move toward open. Here are the four…
Updates on Open Culture Platform Activity Fund Winners 2023
by Brigitte Vézina, Jocelyn Miyara Open CultureIn 2023, the Creative Commons (CC) Open Culture Platform ran an open call for funded activities as part of our efforts to develop local, non-Western models of open culture, and to support the growth of the open culture movement around the world.
Open Culture Live Webinar: Changing the Subject & Respectful Terminologies
by Brigitte Vézina, Jocelyn Miyara Open CultureFor centuries, cultural heritage institutions have been undertaking the work to document and catalog objects in their collections — sometimes this work suffers from a legacy of colonialism and discrimination in the way their collections are labeled and categorized. Some institutions are working to update these labels with more respectful terminology. Hear more from some of the changemakers working to update labels and metadata with more respectful terminologies during this CC panel.
Back to Basics: Open Culture for Beginners
by Brigitte Vézina, Connor Benedict, Jocelyn Miyara Open CultureOn 27 July 2023 we hosted the first webinar in our new Open Culture Live series. In this session about the basics of Open Culture, we led a presentation that answers some of the key questions for beginners hoping to understand more about Creative Commons, and how we work closely with the cultural heritage sector…
CC’s Open Culture Platform 2022: Five Working Groups Share Their Highlights
by Brigitte Vézina Open CultureIn 2022, five working groups of the Creative Commons Open Culture Platform collaborated on a diverse range of topics related to better sharing of cultural heritage. In this blog post, we highlight their incredible contribution to the open culture community. Digital Community Heritage Led by Bettina Fabos and Mariana Ziku, the Digital Community Heritage Working…
2022 in Review: a Look at Creative Commons’ Open Culture Program
by Brigitte Vézina Open Culture2022 was quite a year for the Creative Commons (CC) Open Culture Program, thanks to generous funding from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing & Peter Baldwin, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. In this blog post, we take a look back at some of the year’s highlights in our program’s four components: Policy,…
CC Publishes Global Open Culture Call to Action to Policymakers
by Brigitte Vézina Open CultureSince its creation in 2001, Creative Commons (CC) has helped release nearly 5 million digital open images of cultural heritage held in cultural heritage institutions using CC tools. We have also been promoting open culture to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world, and it is based on this rich experience that our Open…
Members Share Their Experiences with the CC Open Culture Platform
by Brigitte Vézina Open CultureDo you know about the Creative Commons Open Culture Platform? It’s a space for open culture and cultural heritage practitioners, advocates, and enthusiasts to share resources, hold conversations, and collaborate on matters related to open access to cultural heritage, especially heritage held in galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs). As we were curious about our…