Giving culture a helping handpolicies and practice

Gill HamiltonDigital Access Manager

g.hamilton@nls.ukWikimedia 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

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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 @

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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

thank you

Gill HamiltonDigital Access Manager

g.hamilton@nls.uk