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Number of art museums and galleries that joined OpenGLAM.
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Ever since the Rijksmuseum pioneered the OpenGLAM movement in 2011, releasing to the public domain images of artworks in its collection, several other museums have followed its lead, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Finnish National Gallery. Although studies have demonstrated that OpenGLAM provides numerous benefits to museums, rang...
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... the benefits of joining OpenGLAM and the wide acknowledgement that increased access to digitised collections is part of the institutional mission of every museum, participation remains limited. Indicatively, the total number of art museums and galleries in OpenGLAM is only eleven (Figure 1 [15] and the Rijksmuseum gave up all three of them. These considerations are also attributed to be the barriers for organisations interested in joining OpenGLAM, i.e. the loss of image licensing revenue and intellectual control and the loss of control over image reuse [5,6,11]. ...
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... the benefits of joining OpenGLAM and the wide acknowledgement that increased access to digitised collections is part of the institutional mission of every museum, participation remains limited. Indicatively, the number of art museums and galleries that have joined OpenGLAM is only eleven in total ( Figure 1 [15] and the Rijksmuseum gave up all three of them. These considerations are also attributed to be the barriers for organisations interested in joining OpenGLAM, i.e. the loss of image licensing revenue, the loss of intellectual control and the loss of control over image reuse [5,6,11]. ...
