Whittemore Library: The OPEN Movements: Open Heritage

Open Heritage is...

"What happens when hundreds of thousands of archival photos are shared with open licenses, then mashed up with geolocation data and current photos? Or when app developers can freely utilize information and images from millions of books? ...a cultural, technological, and legal environment is enabling a growing ecosystem of open historical data."

- Jon Voss

OpenGLAM (NGO)
An open GLAM (Galleries, Archives, Libraries, and Museums) movement has grown to support the creation and management of digital collections and their reuse by new audiences and user-groups globally.
Googe Arts & Culture: Open Heritage
Sub-collection of the Google Arts & Culture site. Explore iconic locations in 3D, discover the tools of digital preservation, and download the collection.
Open Heritage 3D
Project to make primary 3D cultural heritage data open and accessible and remove the barriers for content producers to publish their data.

Selected Books from the Whittemore Library about Open Heritage

Open Heritage Data by Henriette Roued-Cunliffe
ISBN: 9781783303595
Publication Date: 2020
Written for practitioners, researchers and students working in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) sector who do not have a computer science background, but who want to work more confidently with heritage data.
Open Licensing for Cultural Heritage by Gill Hamilton; Fred Saunderson
ISBN: 9781783301850
Publication Date: 2017
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.