Cultural Heritage Open Scholarship Network (CHOSN)

Cultural Heritage Open Scholarship Network (CHOSN)

Initiated by the British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services, built on the experience of and positive responses received from the open scholarship training programme, which was run in 2023. CHOSN is a community of practice for research support and research-active staff who work in GLAMs, organisations interested in developing and sharing open scholarship knowledge and skills, organising events, and supporting each other in this area. CHOSN aims to provide a platform to create synergy for those aiming for good practice in open scholarship. This collection includes any outputs such as presentations and webinar recordings resulting from CHOSN activities. For more information, visit the CHOSN website at https://openscholarship.gitbook.io/chosn
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    Making the Business Case for Open Access: How the Royal Albert Memorial Museum adopted an open access strategy for digital collections with the GLAM-E Lab
    (2024-04-16)
    Wallace, Andrea
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    Farmer, Francesca
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    Parsons, Julien
    Dr Andrea Wallace, Associate Professor of Law & Technology & Director of the GLAM-E Lab, the University of Exeter Dr Francesca Farmer, Research Fellow, GLAM-E Lab & Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) Julien Parsons, Collections & Content Manager, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) At the start of 2024, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) announced a new Open Access Strategy: for the first time, RAMM released digital surrogates of public domain works using the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Like any major strategic change, RAMM’s move to open access required time, careful planning, and collective effort to see it through. It was also supported by the GLAM-E Lab, an AHRC funded project. This talk reflects on the process while sharing the lessons learned from RAMM’s journey. It sets out the research-led approach taken by RAMM and GLAM-E Lab to make the business case for open access, starting with a small set of 63 CC0 images published to Wikimedia Commons. It also addresses the recent Court of Appeal decision in THJ v Sheridan, what it means for copyright licensing services and how the cultural sector can respond by embracing open access.
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    Sharing Cultural Heritage Images as Data: WorldFAIR Project Recommendations
    (2025-04-29)
    Knazook, Beth
    About this webinar: Sharing Cultural Heritage Images as Data: WorldFAIR Project Recommendations, we welcome Beth Knazook (project manager, research data at the Digital Repository of Ireland) who introduces the WorldFAIR Project (2022-2024) recommendations for sharing cultural heritage images as data. Participants will learn about the origins of this work within the larger, global ‘collections as data’ movement in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) community, and develop an understanding of how the FAIR principles for research data, widely adopted by the academic sector, align with existing GLAM professional practices. The webinar will conclude with some practical examples of the recommendations in action at the Digital Repository of Ireland and touch on future directions and developments.
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    Copyright versus the Public Domain
    (2026-01-13)
    Davidson, Alison
    This discussion on Public Domain Day highlighted the basics of copyright, emphasising its automatic nature and the distinction from trademarks and patents. Copyright duration varies by country, often linked to the creator's death, with a minimum term of life of the creator plus 50 years under the Berne Convention. The rule of the shorter term applies within a country, affecting how works are treated across different jurisdictions.
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    Getting started with ARK persistent identifiers
    (2024-11-07)
    Kunze, John
    This webinar introduces ARK (Archival Resource Key) persistent identifiers. As non-paywalled PIDs (persistent identifiers, permalinks) for information objects of any kind, ARKs support durable web addresses (e.g., that don’t return 404 Page Not Found). Since 2001, 8.2 billion ARKs have been created by over 1400 organizations — libraries, data centers, publishers, archives, museums, and government agencies. With highly flexible metadata, citation-friendly ARKs are linked-data-ready and identify anything digital, physical, or abstract. In 2018, multiple organizations partnered to form the ARK Alliance in order to sustain the ARK infrastructure and guide its future.
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    Available, Accessible, Open
    (2024-03-05)
    Fraser, Josie
    CHOSN event: Open access policies and practice research in GLAMs. 5 March 2024 Tuesday 2pm GMT Josie Fraser, Head of Digital Policy at the National Lottery Heritage Fund Our guest speaker addresses topics of open access policy environment for Galleries-Libraries-Archives-Museums (GLAMs) and diverse research activities & outputs. Josie Fraser provides a funder perspective and talk about the open access policy for projects funded the National Lottery Heritage Fund and their guidance for the implementation.
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    Opening the Collections: case studies from the University of Manchester Library
    (2025-02-20)
    Gallagher, Jane
    Jane Gallagher (Head of Digital Special Collections) will discuss the University of Manchester Library’s experiences of making cultural heritage collections open for scholarship, with the challenges and opportunities which this brings. Working with heritage collections in digital form, we often balance between preservation and access, user demand and service capabilities, Open aspirations and guarded instincts. Considering our audiences, our tools and standards, the potential for collaboration and the opportunities for confronting historical biases, Jane will share the Library’s different approaches to providing and using cultural heritage collections for open scholarship, and consider future possibilities from the explosion of access to AI tools.
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    Improving the Discoverability of Practice Research Processes, Outputs, and Data
    (2024-03-05)
    Ranger, Holly
    CHOSN event: Open access policies and practice research in GLAMs. 5 March 2024 Tuesday 2pm GMT Holly Ranger, Research Data Management Officer at the University of Westminster. Our guest speaker addresses topics of open access policy environment for Galleries-Libraries-Archives-Museums (GLAMs) and diverse research activities & outputs. Holly Ranger presents on the forms of research activities and non-traditional outputs in GLAM organisations in the context of practice research.
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