Results

Digitisation audiovisual materials heritage Institutions: Models for licenses and compensations

With this research report the Images for the Future consortium stresses the need to adopt the existing copyright framework applicable to mass digitisation projects in the Netherlands.

Economies of the Commons 2: Paying the Costs of Making Things Free

International conference, seminar and public evening programs. Conference report by Lotte Belice Baltussen and Wietske van den Heuvel.

Tagging as research tool

Research shows that people are getting more active on the internet as ‘prosumers’. This challenges traditional market research in a profound way. How to get rich data from your consumers in a digital world? New methods are developed to do user research. Ruigrok Netpanel runs an interesting pilot where participants can tag products.

Games motivate students with a concentration problem

Small scale research conducted by Cherifa Hendriks (Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen) shows that the effects of games are positive on students with concentration problems. Should education follow the rules of game?

Open up the goldmine in the UK

“The cultural heritage community sits on a goldmine of images, texts, sounds, films, video, data and metadata of immense interest to wide variety of of specific sectors and the general public.” With that statement Jordan S. Hatcher and Eduserv open the Snapshot study on the use of open content licenses in the UK cultural heritage sector. 107 Cultural heritage organisations participated in the UK-wide survey.