Fostering Creative Reuse of Your Collection
Reuse
A participatory process is a sequence of participatory activities (e.g. first filling out a survey, then making proposals, discussing them in face-to-face or virtual meetings, and finally prioritizing them) with the aim of defining and making a decision on a specific topic.
Examples of participatory processes are: a process of electing committee members (where candidatures are first presented, then debated and finally a candidacy is chosen), participatory budgets (where proposals are made, valued economically and voted on with the money available), a strategic planning process, the collaborative drafting of a regulation or norm, the design of an urban space or the production of a public policy plan.
About this process
This process belongs to Copyright Chart
CHIs are increasingly looking for new ways of interacting with the audience, providing spaces for a critical dialogue among citizens, raising awareness of their collections for current and future generations while guaranteeing equal access to cultural heritage for all the citizens. Hence, together with preserving and giving access to your institution’s digital cultural heritage, you might want to take action to facilitate and encourage its use and with that maximise its impact on society. For this reason, CHIs must, first of all, consider for which purposes they are interested in providing such re-use, e.g. research, education, commercial…etc. and take into account some considerations.
CHIs are increasingly looking for new ways of interacting with the audience, providing spaces for a critical dialogue among citizens, raising awareness of their collections for current and future generations while guaranteeing equal access to cultural heritage for all the citizens. Hence, together with preserving and giving access to your institution’s digital cultural heritage, you might want to take action to facilitate and encourage its use and with that maximise its impact on society. For this reason, CHIs must, first of all, consider for which purposes they are interested in providing such re-use, e.g. research, education, commercial…etc. and take into account some considerations.
1) Communicate the copyright status of your collection in a clear manner. Adhering to standards, rights statements or CC licences maximises the potential for reuse of a collection.
2) CC licences (simple attribution [BY] and share-alike [BY-SA], particularly) and tools, (such as the CC0 copyright waiver), are some of the simplest means to convey what can be made with the digital cultural heritage assets and to foster re-use and circulation.
3) Relying on licensing metadata standards will help users find your work and bolster reusability.
4) The Europeana Publishing Framework allows you to learn how to best manage the metadata in your cultural assets.
5) Always remember that, regardless of your copyright strategy, exceptions you might rely on and licences you might have acquired, the author's moral rights still subsist! Enabling re-use does not necessarily enable any use
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