giving culture a helping hand: national library of scotland metadata and digital content licencing...
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Giving culture a helping handpolicies and practice
Gill HamiltonDigital Access Manager
[email protected] UK Board memberWikipedia user: triptropic
overview
• National Library of Scotland• the drivers for change• why a licencing policy was necessary• the challenges and The Challenges• measuring impact• a few tips
digitalprint and manuscript collections
digitalimage collections
digitalmoving image and sound collections
digitalmap collection
“born digital” collections
metadata
<descriptionTableID>14441</descriptionTableID> <objectIdentifierValue>74548990</objectIdentifierValue> <title>Some shell cases on the roadside in the front area, the contents of which have been despatched over into the German lines</title> <description>Lone soldier surrounded by a mountain of empty shell cases, France. This lone British soldier up to his knees in spent shell cases, offers a striking impression of the destruction that took place on the Western Front. <keyword keywordAuthority="AAT" keywordTableID="3738">Roadsides</keyword> <keyword keywordAuthority="AAT" keywordTableID="3064">Soldiers</keyword> <name whoAuthority="No Authority" whoTableID="114" whoType="Photographer">
Aitken, Thomas (Tom) Keith, b. 1879 </name> <place placeAuthority="TGN" placeTableID="542" TGNplaceName="France" placeType="Place written, created, manufactured, produced, taken (of photographs), etc" longitude="2.0000" latitude="46.0000">
Europe, France (nation ) </place>
drivers for change the Open movement
drivers for change administrative and legislative
REMOVE barriers
IMPROVE access and use
drivers for change Library strategy
Digital Access Manager
Intellectual Property Officer
Wikimedian-in-Residence
drivers for changethe right staff at the right time?
• no existing policy– policy is created, agreed, published & implemented
• inconsistency in license application- single default license for
• metadata • content• unless exceptional circumstances
• complexity – simple with no complex procedures – takes blanket approach
The need for a policygeneral issues
access– equal use and re-use for all
moral and ethical– encourages Library to open licence resources
derived from public domain works
The need for a policyLibrary issues
Weighing scale @
WikiCom
mons
complexity and ambiguity
– legal ambiguity removed– open and easy to understand
The need for a policyUsers’ issues
• a policy doesn’t limit income generation• allows for more restrictive licenses in
exceptional circumstances• follows leadership shown by – BL, DnB, NL Sweden– Rijksmuseum & National Museum of Denmark
• sends powerful positive message encouraging use & re-use
• preparedness for EU PSI directive?
The need for a policyOther issues
• unwelcome use, unwelcome media• impact on current & future income generation• CC.0 is in perpetuity• CC.0 does not require attribution• can licenses be rescinded?• may limit ability to offer exclusive rights?
The need for a policyRisks
metadata• CC.0 (core only)• created by the Library
Digital contentimage content (photos, maps, prints)• up to 1000px wide• CC-BY
book type content • up to 1000px wide• CC-BY-NC-SA
The policy and the licences
the Policy
organisational appetiterights in digitised resources?
the “open” zealotsthe “closed” zealots
dealing with “what if …”opinions versus evidence
rights managementimplementation
review
The challenges and The Challenges
ImpactWikiCommons
WikiCommons trial• 1,600 PD images• 2,500 px wide• GLAM WIKI toolset• 8% in use • in 14 Wikipedias
ImpactWikiCommons
WikiCommons• ~ 2,000 images• 18 million article views• images in 750 articles• in 70 Wikipedias
ImpactFlickr
Flickr since 2008• + 2,000 images• Flickr Commons• No known copyright
restrictions• 12.5 million views
• the unknown impact– school projects– personal and professional research– enjoyment and entertainment– commercial use
ImpactThe unknown
• be prepared to balance!income generation and access CAN co-exist
• move to “open” can motivate income generation
• be careful, very careful, of CC.0• study the exemplars• record the impact• publicise!
tips