Related Resources

Indicative resources which can help with understanding the open GLAM landscape and identifying risks and strategies for GLAM organisations in opening up their collections.

Candela G, Gabriëls N, Chambers S, Dobreva M, Ames S, Ferriter M et al. A checklist to publish collections as data in GLAM institutions. Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication. 2023 Nov 9. Epub 2023 Nov 9. https://doi.org/10.1108/GKMC-06-2023-0195.

Creative Commons (2024) CC Certificate Course - Unit 5.2. Opportunities and Challenges of Open Culture.

Deazley, R., Patterson, K., Stobo, V. (2017) Digitising the Edwin Morgan Scrapbooks: Digitisation and Risk.

Fraser, J. (2021) Beyond Copyright: the Ethics of Open Sharing, Creative Commons: We Like to Share Medium Publication.

GLAM-E Lab (2023) Go Open with GLAM-E – especially chapter: “How to Mitigate Risk or Manage ‘Unknowns’”, pp. 9-10.

GLAM-E Lab (2024) Assessing and Mitigating Risk.

GLAM-E Lab (2024) Copyright Clearance Handbook for Public Domain Publications of Digital Collections.

GLAM-E Lab (2024) Copyright Clearance Log.

GLAM-E Lab (2024) Internal Open Access Policies.

GLAM-E Lab (2024) External Open Access Policies.

GLAM-E Lab (2024) Selecting an Alternative Label or Licence.

GLAM-E Lab (2024) Image and Metadata Handbook for Wikimedia Commons.

GLAM-E Lab (2024) Sandbox Template for Wikimedia Commons Metadata Management.

GLAM-E Lab (2024) Glossary.

GLAM-E Lab (2025) Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline?

Hintz, C., Kowalski, M.T., Quigley, S., Bailey, J. (2023) Finding Balance: Collaborative Workflows for Risk Management in Sharing Cultural Heritage Collections Online. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Libraries. https://doi.org/10.18737/NOHP2128.

Kapsalis, E. (2016) The Impact of Open Access on Galleries, Libraries, Museums, & Archives – especially chapter “Realities and Risks”, pp. 10-12.

Korn, N. Copyright for Museums & Galleries on CopyrightUser.org.

Meletti, B., Erickson, K., Iramina, A., Stobo, V. (2025) Open Licensing Models in the Cultural Heritage Sector. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15728474.

Naomi Korn Associates (2022) Creative Commons Licences: A Guide to Data Protection & Copyright, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Naomi Korn Associates (2023) Creating digital resources: GDPR, copyright and using open licences, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

McCarthy, D. (2024) Schrödinger’s Copyright. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13371375.

McCarthy, D. (2024) Balancing Access and Income – The Dilemma of Museum Image Licensing. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13371244.

Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (2019) Enhancing Access to and Sharing of Data : Reconciling Risks and Benefits for Data Re-use Across Societies. Paris, France: OECD.

Pavis, M., Wallace, A., Saunders, S. (2023) Doing Digitisation on a Budget: A Guide to Low-Cost Digital Projects, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Popham, M. (2024) An Introduction to Disentangling Digital Preservation Risk with CHARM. Digital Preservation Coalition Blog.

Saunderson, F., Tudur, D. (2019). Clear and Consistent: Copyright Assessment Framework for Libraries. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3259719.

Stobo, V. (2016) Risky Business: Copyright and Making Collections. Available online, in Wallace, A. and Deazley, R. (eds) Display At Your Own Risk: An Experimental Exhibition of Digital Cultural Heritage.

Valeonti, F., Terras, M., Hudson-Smith, A (2019) How open is OpenGLAM? Identifying barriers to commercial and non-commercial reuse of digitised art images, Journal of Documentation, vol. 76, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-06-2019-0109.

Valeonti, F., Bikakis, A., Terras, M., Speed, C., Hudson-Smith, A., Chalkias, K. (2021). Crypto Collectibles, Museum Funding and OpenGLAM: Challenges, Opportunities and the Potential of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Applied Sciences 11 (21), 9931. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11219931.

Vézina, B., Françoise, C., Anuken, O., Harris, D. (2022) What Are The Barriers To Open Culture? A report by Creative Commons.

Wallace, A., Deazley, R. (2016) Display At Your Own Risk: An Experimental Exhibition of Digital Cultural Heritage.

Wallace, A. (2020a) Clarifying “Open”, Open GLAM.

Wallace, A. (2020b) Copyright, Open GLAM, https://doi.org/10.21428/74d826b1.556f5733.

Wallace, A. (2020c) Contracts, Open GLAM, https://doi.org/10.21428/74d826b1.b908e9d4.

Wallace, A. (2020d) Barriers to Open Access, Open GLAM, https://doi.org/10.21428/74d826b1.22317341.

Wallace, A. (2021) Decolonization and Indigenization, Open GLAM.

Wallace, A., Pavis, M. (2021) Working With Open Licences: A Guide For Projects, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Wallace A., Weinberg, M. (2023) Open Licensing: A Digital Heritage Licensing Briefing, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.