C Zarkali's scientific contributions

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Although studies have demonstrated that OpenGLAM provides numerous benefits to participant institutions, such as the dissemination of collections and increased sponsorship opportunities (Kapsalis, 2016; Kelly, 2013), the movement’s adoption remains limited. For museums and galleries, the fear of losing image fees, poses as one of the main barriers...
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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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In the last decade significant resources have been invested for the digitisation of the collections of a large number of museums and galleries worldwide. In Europe alone, 10 million EUR is annually invested in Europeana (Europeana 2014). However, as we gradually move on from “the start-up phase” of digitisation (Hughes 2004), revenue generation and...

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... The GLAM sector has yet to invent business models to recover image fees that could be lost by open licensing, or giving others opportunities to monetise GLAM content (Sanderhoff, 2013), although there have been some attempts. Print on demand services have been trialled where users can create and purchase products featuring artworks (Gorgels, 2013;Valeonti et al., 2019), or reuse designrelated materials (National Archives, 2016). ...
... Whereas tracking international audience engagement may benefit the British Museum -in 2019 64% of their visitors were international tourists -this is less true of the Linen Hall Library (Bailey 2023). GLAM organisations have consistently struggled to monetise their online audiences (Anderson 2018, 91), with the profitability of image licensing being repeatedly questioned (Grosvenor 2018;Tanner 2004), and print on demand services remaining the reserve of large institutions (Valeonti et al. 2019;Valeonti et al. 2018). To start monetising online audiences in this way requires a sustained investment in digital infrastructure, with an online shop also necessitating large upfront costs. ...