Tag: collections

10 fantastic open access Indian heritage collections

India’s remarkable cultural heritage features in the collections of museums around the world. Here are ten of our favourite open access digital collections — free to download, reuse and remix to your heart’s content. If we missed any, let us know in the comments! 1 . The Clevela...

Working Group to Investigate Use of CC BY to designate holders of public domain collections

CC Open Culture Platform Working Group 5 focused on analyzing the need for cultural heritage institutions (CHIs) to be credited for the digital reproduction of the material, even when the material is in the public domain, to attest the origin of digitization while informing every potential user abou...

What’s a Collections Care Specialist?

Iget asked this question a lot when I tell people I’m a Collections Care Specialist, “what do you do?” The job title Collections Care Specialist is relatively new in the lexicon of museum and cultural heritage work, but the work that goes with it has been around a long time. I l...

Designing The Invisible Interaction of Museum Collections

User experience designers usually design for something tangible or something we can see. We design digital interactions for websites and mobile applications. We also deal with services when we design bank services. The interaction we design can also involve physical objects, like the design button i...