Digital meets Culture

a call for creative submissions and the selection of the accepted projects run since spring 2016.

Preparing the exhibition of Open Hybrid Publishing pilot

Within the framework of Europeana Space, the Open and Hybrid Publishing Pilot exhibiton is under preparation since few months and will be launched soon. First, a call for creative works was published in the project blog, on the media partner digitalmeetsculture.net and on Photomediations channels.

Then, a CREATIVE REM!X JAM workshop was designed and run at Coventry University in the UK, and Photography Studies College at Melbourne in Australia as a preparation for the exhibition run by the pilot. The CREATIVE REM!X JAM workshop kit has also been disseminated to the Europeana community and wider photographic community, with the workshops being then taken up by other institutions (Sheffield, Portsmouth, London, Nottingham, Huddersfield, Brussels and Gent).

Open and Hybrid Publishing Pilot call for creative submissions for the exhibition closed on 31 March. We ultimately had 537 people engage with the exhibition site during March and received 300 creative submissions via social media & our submission form/email.

The judges of the contest were:

Editors of Photomediations: An Open Book

Katrina Sluis – The Photographers’ Gallery

Karen Newman – Birmingham Open Media

Pippa Milne – Centre for Contemporary Photography

Judging for the competition was completed with 1 overall winner, 3 runners-up and 6 honourable mentions (names still under embargo!).

The exhibition as it stands presently will run into 3 formats:

1. Online exhibition built into the creative call site so it connects with the education function and can easily be linked out from the Photomediations Open Book.

2. An ebook enabling a mobile offline viewing and downloadable format for the viewer

3. A pop-up exhibition available as a complete ‘frozen’ package with instructions, images, texts etc or as a zipped folder with the RAW material for people to self curate and reinterpret the material, add too etc.

To see a selection of images submitted click on the random open content generator on the exhibition website: http://photomediations.disruptivemedia.org.uk/explore/

E-Space partner SPK is an important institution in Germany, that regularly organizes and participates to cultural heritage events and workshops

Latest dissemination activities by SPK

At the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin, the Europeana DSI Workshop «Tools to make your collection widely visible» was co-organized by Michael Culture association, NEMO and SPK, within the Europeana Digital Service Infrastructure (DSI) project, on 15th Februaty 2016.
Sarah Wassermann from SPK spoke about E-Space in the presentation “Things to check when implementing an APP in a museum”, presenting guiding questions and things that should be considered when preparing an app for a museum – referring to the example of the development of the Blinkster App. the lessons learnt bu the Museums Pilot are extremely valuable for other institutions and in facts during the workshop raised the suggestion to spread and disseminate the raised questions and considerations in a public document.

The event agenda: http://www.dedale.info/_objets/medias/autres/agenda-ws-dsi-berlin-2016v4-1032.pdf

On 11th May an important German event Frühjahrstagung Fachgruppe Dokumentation (Spring Conference of Professional Group Documentation) was organzied by Deutscher Museumsbund (German Museums Association), and Monika Hagedorn-Saupe from SPK disseminate about E-Space project and the Museums Pilot within the attendees including professionals from the Cultural Heritage & technology field, e.g. Museums, Libraries and Universities, also distributing the E-Space pilots leaflet and networking with experts in the Cultural Heritage sector.

More info on the event:

http://www.museumsbund.de/de/fachgruppen_arbeitskreise/dokumentation_fg/terminordner/2016_fachtagung/beitraege_mai_2016_stand_31052016/

Leuven (Belgium), 7-10 February 2017

European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry / Call for Abstract closes 15/9

The 1st edition of the European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry is a unique event for sharing knowledge and seeking new collaboration and partnerships. It provides opportunities for addressing the common challenges that qualitative researchers face in their own geographical regions or research disciplines. Most importantly the Congress is a lively event, providing ample opportunities for interacting with friends and colleagues and learning about the latest developments and innovations in qualitative inquiry.

The venue of ECQI 2017 will be KU Leuven, situated near Brussels, the capital of Europe, and a centre of learning for almost six centuries now (founded in 1425).

QUALITY AND REFLEXIVITY IN QUALITATIVE INQUIRY

In order to ensure best practice and to stimulate innovation in qualitative inquiry we permanently judge, evaluate and critique the works of others and try to improve the quality of our own work, through peer review of papers and proposals and through acts of reflexivity and reflections related to our own personal and epistemological stances in qualitative inquiry. The internal compass we develop to assist in such processes is guided by a mixture of knowledge, experience and our personal stance on what we believe constitutes good qualitative research. We ‘live up’ to certain standards and ‘refuse’ others. The different positions we take can be considered both an advantage and a disadvantage. They contribute to the overall richness of our methodological field and allow us to deal with a variety of complex problems. At the same time, they complicate the search for a commonly accepted jargon to speak about quality and qualitative inquiry more generally. In the recognition of the value of flexible, emerging and progressive approaches to qualitative research we permanently negotiate quality frameworks based on our own reflexive research practice. We welcome contributions from all scientific domains and all qualitative research traditions, featuring innovative research methodologies, introducing worked examples that illustrate a reflexive research attitude or pushing the boundries of what we currently perceive as best practice in qualitative inquiry.

For the general conference track at this 1^st edition of ECQI we welcome contributions that answer the following questions:

QUALITY in qualitative inquiry

How has the debate on quality shifted over time and how has it hindered or facilitated progress in the field of qualitative inquiry?
Which quality frameworks are available to us? Do we need them at all, and why?
How do we choose to negotiate quality criteria and frameworks within the current evidence-based discourse? How do we balance methodological flaws against richness of description and the need to experiment with emerging and innovative methodologies and research lenses?
What sort of translations of quality do we support in the multiplicity of qualitative research paradigms and methodological approaches applied?

REFLEXIVITY in qualitative inquiry

What is a reflexive account to inquiry and how do we report on it?
What are the mechanisms by which we can make these processes more transparent for others to learn from?
What is the role of theory in our research? How and where does it manifest itself?

Also, in the general conference track, we further welcome contributions discussing a particular topical area of interest to a multidisciplinary crowd of qualitative researchers.

Please check the event website for further info. Call for abstract closes 15/9.

https://kuleuvencongres.be/ECQI2017

Naples (Italy), 27 November - 1 December 2016

VICTA 2016: 3rd International Workshop on Visions on Internet of Cultural Things and Applications / call for papers

This workshop is collocated with SITIS 2016 – The 12th International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS.

The adoption of Future Internet (FI) technology, and in particular of its most challenging components like the Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Services (IoS), can constitute the basic building blocks to progress towards unified ICT platforms for a variety of applications within the large framework of smart cities.

The combination of the Internet and emerging technologies such as near-field and BLE communications, real-time localization, and embedded sensors lets us transform everyday objects into smart objects that can understand and react to their environment.

In the last years, Cultural Heritage has turned out to be one of the most suitable domains in which such achievements can be profitably exploited, since it characterizes a domain where several aspects have to be considered at the same time. In line with SITIS tradition of promoting interdisciplinary research, the international workshop on Visions on Internet of Cultural Things and Applications, VICTA ’16, aims to be a profitable informal working day to discuss together hot topics about Internet of Things and its applications within the Smart City and the Cultural Heritage domain.

This third edition will be organized by DATABENC, the High Technology district for Cultural Heritage in Campania region, Italy. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and applied papers on their research in the following topics.

Topics of interest for the workshop, include (but are not limited to) aspects of:

Internet of Things.
Innovative ICT solutions within Cultural environments (e.g. museums, exhibitions, etc.)
Smart Objects and Smart Environments
Smart City solutions
Knowledge classification and semantic representation in Cultural environments
Embedded platforms and sensors
Multimedia systems, applications and services for Cultural Heritage
Multimedia recommendations and User profiling techniques
Interactive 3D media and immersive environments
Data in social networks
Data mining analytics applied to Smart Cities
Data collection and management
Semantic-Web data
Big Data in Cultural Heritage applications
User studies, such as museum and sites applications, human interfaces, interaction and usability
e-Learning: Tools for Education, Documentation and Training in Cultural Heritage

Extended Submission deadline: September 24, 2016

Key selection criteria for the winners was the business potential of the idea, or product, or service proposed in the chosen projects.

…. and the winner is…. (E-Space incubated projects)

One of the key objectives of Europeana Space is to help creative industries to leverage on digital cultural content for creating new products and services – thus creating new businesses and job positions.

To do so, a series of 6 E-Space Hackathons selected 3 innovative projects each, which went through another round of selection during a series of Business Modelling Workshops. Key selection criteria was the business potential of the idea, or product, or service proposed in the chosen projects.

happy participants at the TV hackathon

Now these are the names of projects currently supported by E-Space project in a in intensive business and incubation period, at the end of which they will be ready to take the challenge in the real market:

WeMakeKnown: an application to experience our cultural heritage empowering both audience and experts (from the TV hackathon in Amsterdam)

Nous: a platform utilizing new BCI and EEG technologies to understand how users subconsciously react and perceive art works as a method for institutes to change their curation and exhibition (online and offline) work processes (from the Dance hackathon in Prague)

Vivl.io: to create a best-of-breed book in browser format – the digital reading environment in which a user can read, learn, play and explore (from the Open and Hybrid Publishing hackathon in Athens)

Spiced App: creating a unique tone of voice to attract young, urban female professionals (from the Museums hackathon in Venice)

PostArt: a new app developed by the Proverb team to make collecting and sending museum postcards easy (from the Museums hackathon in Venice too)

StoryPix: a web-based storytelling service for billboards users can interact with (from the Photography hackathon in Leuven)

Picasso’s Cat: a fun reimagining of art history through cat pics (from the Photography hackathon in Leuven too).

busy participants at the Open and Hybrid Publishing hackathon

These incubated projects will be celebrated during the upcoming E-Space third international conference in Berlin (21-22 November 2016) and will be on hand to meet and talk and to showcase their products.

http://berlinconference2016.europeana-space.eu

Ars Electronica received 1,861 entries from 54 countries

STARTS Prize 2016 to “Magnetic Motion” and “Artificial Skins and Bones”

Collection Magnetic Motion / Fotocredit: Morgan O’Donovan

Ars Electronica Linz was selected to conduct the competition to determine the first two recipients of an award launched this year by the European Commission that is as prestigious as it is highly endowed. The STARTS Prize, each accompanied by a €20,000 stipend, honors innovative projects at the interface of science, technology and the arts in two categories: one for artistic research, and thus projects with the potential to influence or change the way technology is deployed, developed or perceived, and one for innovative cooperative ventures teaming up industry/technology and art/culture in ways that open up new paths for innovation.

A total of 1,861 entries from 54 countries were submitted in response to an open call that ran from February 1 to March 16, 2016.

A committee then shortlisted 30 projects, which were presented to the STARTS jurors for their consideration. Following extensive deliberations, they decided on “Magnetic Motion” by Iris van Herpen (NL) and “Artificial Skins and Bones” a project seminar staged jointly by Berlin Weißensee Academy of Art, Ottobock and Fab Lab Berlin.

Both prizewinning projects will be on display at this year’s Ars Electronica Festival (September 8-12, 2016) in Linz, where the artists as well as the respective project partners will make appearances.

Plus, a major STARTS show will highlight the next BOZAR Electronic Arts Festival (September 22-24, 2016) in Brussels. Additional STARTS presentations are scheduled for autumn in Tokyo and London.

Artificial Skins and Bones / Visible Strength / Lisa Stohn and Jhu-Ting Yang / Fotocredit: Bernardo Aviles-Busch

Science + Technology + Arts = STARTS

“In the Digital Age, art and engineering no longer represent mutually contradictory ways of thinking,” maintains G.H. Oettinger, EU Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society. Science, technology and the arts (STARTS for short) constitute a nexus at which insightful observers have identified extraordinarily high potential for innovation. Accordingly, Commissioner Oettinger foresees digital transformations in industry, culture and society providing the main impetus for interdisciplinary and inter-genre collaboration when innovation is the desired result. Moreover, he emphasizes that the link-up of technology and artistic practice is a win-win situation for both European innovation policymaking as well as the world of art, which is precisely why STARTS focuses on both artistic relevance and a project’s significance/utility for industry and society. In this context, Commissioner Oettinger emphasizes that this should by no means be construed as restricting artistic latitude for experimentation. This is said to be utterly counterproductive since creativity on the part of artists is, after all, first and foremost an upshot of their independence.

Ars Electronica Linz Meets STARTS

Since 1979, Ars Electronica has been exploring the multifarious impacts that digitization and networking are making on our world. In going about this, art, technology and society are never scrutinized as discrete domains; instead, they’re considered as interrelated elements of a unified vision. Ars Electronica’s process of artistic reflection on explosive developments, its ongoing inquiry into alternative future scenarios and the framework circumstances, strategies and protagonists necessary for their emergence, as well as the ways and means inherent in all of these activities to encourage people to get actively involved in configuring our shared future are what make Ars Electronica the ideal partner of the STARTS program. The Ars Electronica Festival, a platform and showcase that has been making a name for itself worldwide since 1979, the Prix Ars Electronica competition that has honored excellence in media art annually since 1987, the Ars Electronica Center that premiered in 1996 as a Museum of the Future and educational facility, the Ars Electronica Futurelab founded the same year as an in-house R&D lab/atelier, and Ars Electronica Solutions, the division responsible for an impressive array of joint ventures with partners in industry and commerce, also contribute mightily to this effort.

See the full information: http://www.aec.at/press/en/2016/06/23/starts2016/

Brussels (Belgium), 6th July 2016

Rethinking Data Protection and Privacy in Europe: Shaping the European Digital Future

In January 2015, Europe’s data industry together with the European Commission committed to invest €2.5 billion in a public-private partnership (PPP) that aims at accelerating the development of Europe’s data-driven economy.

Data represents a key element for research, technological innovations and economic development. It covers various topics, ranging from transport and energy to healthcare and social issues, and can empower European citizens and businesses to fully seize the opportunities of the digital environment. Efficient flow of data is therefore pivotal to move forward and build a European digital single market. However, boosting the potential of the digital market can only be accomplished if people can trust the way their personal data is being used and if clear data protection standards are put in place.

This international symposium will examine the latest developments on data protection rules discussed at EU level. It will also explore new ways to encourage innovation by implementing one common data protection standard for businesses in Europe. Furthermore, the event will address the recurring concern on the balance between privacy and security as well as the issue regarding customers’ control over personal data.

It also provides an invaluable opportunity for key stakeholders within the public and private sector to explore the measures that are being taken to reduce territorial fragmentation of data protection laws and move towards a harmonised EU digital single market. The symposium will support the exchange of ideas and encourage delegates to engage in thought-provoking topical debate with local and regional practitioners and policy makers at EU level.

Delegates will also:

Explore new developments on Data Protection Regulation in Europe
Discuss unifying data protection rules for European businesses
Consider ways to achieve the right balance between privacy and security
Assess consumers’ rights and trust regarding the protection of personal data

Date: Wednesday 6th July 2016
Time: 10:00am – 4:30pm
Venue: Thon Hotel Brussels City Centre, Brussels

Key speakers:

Michele Voznick
Policy Officer, Directorate-General Justice and Consumers, Data Protection Unit
European Commission

Dr. Els De Busser
Lecturer – Law – Faculty of Public Management, Law & Safety, Senior Researcher – Cyber Security – Faculty IT & Design The Hague University of Applied Sciences

Professor David Wallom
Associate Professor and Associate Director University of Oxford eResearch Centre

Christoph Luykx
Director, Government Relations EMEA CA Technologies

Boris Wojtan
Director of Privacy GSMA

Jos Dumortier
ICT Lawyer – Honorary Professor ICT Law time.lex

Zoe Kardasiadou
Seconded National Expert, Freedoms and Justice Department
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

Alexander Whalen
Senior Policy Manager Digital Europe

Ero Balsa
Privacy Researcher COSIC – KU Leuven

Christopher Stacey
Co-Director Unlock

Download the Flyer with the Agenda (PDF, 423 Kb)

Registration module (.docx 30 Kb) or please click here

Inquiries: +44 (0)20 3137 8630

www.publicpolicyexchange.co.uk

A conference dedicated to the analysis of present scenarios and vision of future for cultural heritage in 10 years.

MUSEUM: VISION 2026 – interesting workshop in Turin

On 16-17 June 2016, in Turin in the beautiful premises of Palazzo Madama, the Turin Museums Foundation in collaboration with Singularity University Geneva, organized a conference dedicated to the analysis of present scenarios and vision of future for cultural heritage in 10 years.

Museum Vision 2026 is a workshop, a platform to open a window onto the future of
museum experiences and their straight influence on social and economic
perspectives with the aim to identify a series of museum experiences in the context of the fourth industrial revolution. Museums in Italy are facing profound changes, especially at the intersection between art and science.

The activities of the conference were developed in two days:
1. INTRODUCTION and FUTURE SCENARIOS: exponentially growing technologies
2. TRENDSWATCH: the convergence of communications, technology and science
3. MAKERS: artisans beyond digital
4. CROWD: the museum as a community service
5. CREATIVE LAB: activities, trends and scenarios for the museum of the future
6. RESULTS: debriefing and final paper

Speakers included:
PATRIZIA ASPRONI – President, Fondazione Torino Musei – Welcome message/Why “Museum:Vision 2026”
NICOLETTA IACOBACCI – Director, SingularityU Geneva –Ten-years scenarios “Forecast 2026” and work program
DALE HERIGSTAD –Advanced Interaction Consultant
CHLOE JARRY –Interactive digital publisher
GIOVANNI DE NIEDERHAUSERN – Chief operating officer Carlo Ratti Associati
MARCELA SABINO – Museu do Amanhã – Rio de Janeiro – Case study: “What is the
tomorrow we are talking about”
GIANMARCO VERUGGIO Honorary President – Scuola di Robotica, Director of Research CNR-IEIIT.
IAN BRUNSWICK, Science Gallery International
MARIO NANNI – President Viabizzuno
MARIA GRAZIA MATTEI – Founder Meet the Media Guru
JAMES DAVIS – Head Of Country Operations, Google Cultural Institute

See the agenda HERE

Particularly interesting was the welcome message by Patrizia Asproni, discussing the growing need of changing the traditional approaches of museums as memory institutions to a new concept of user-generated experience, audience participation and co-creation in the enjoiment of cultural heritage, leveraging on the new technologies to re-organize the museal experience and its pace: “how to connect what is kept inside [the museums] with the world outside museums and with the acceleration of relations and communications flowing through it? Is the fate of the museums to keep the pace or to reaffirm their status as places of meditation and slowness? Finally, is the one with technology a mortal embrace that implies a complete surrender of the “fully human” experience of the visit, or will it be a tool for better enjoyment and enhancement [of cultural heritage]?” (text of the speech available in full, Italian language, here)

The audience was selected amongst professionals in the field of culture and museums; including communicators and journalists, authorities of IT and technology, students and young entrepreneurs.

Marie Curie European Fellowship at Coventry University

Creative Artist/ Coder to join a Transciplinary Dance Research Project

The Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University seeks a highly motivated creative artist/ coder to join a unique trans-disciplinary team exploring the artistic, scholarly and scientific potential of choreographic and dance-related data. The opportunity will be supported by an application to the Marie Curie European Fellowship. The Marie Curie European Fellowships are open to individual researchers coming to Europe from any country in the world or moving within Europe. The applicant should have their doctoral degree or at least four years’ full-time research experience by the time of the call deadline. The Fellowship lasts from one to two years.

MORE ABOUT C-DARE: http://c-dare.co.uk

MORE ABOUT MARIE CURIE: http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/about-msca/actions/if/index_en.htm

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST DEADLINE: 24 June 2016

CONTEXT AND POSITION: The Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University aims to build on over fifteen years experience its Senior Researchers have with the development of new interdisciplinary approaches to the documentation, digitisation and dissemination of the creative practices of internationally renowned choreographers and dance companies. These projects include the Siobhan Davies Digital Archive, Wayne McGregor’s Choreographic Language Agent, Synchronous Objects for One Flat Thing, reproduced by William Forsythe, Inside Movement Knowledge and Capturing Intention with Emio Greco | PC and the Motion Bank project of The Forsythe Company. (1) The cumulative result of these digital dance projects, manifesting in the form of creative software tools, interactive installations and websites, has had wide impact in many areas including dance education and research, artistic practice, cultural heritage and creative industry. These projects have also spawned a global network of individuals, institutions and organisations across the cultural, education and industry sectors.

A key and as yet underexploited result of these projects exists in the large amount of digital dance data now available as a potential resource for computational study. A wide range of dance related datasets exist from small to large collections with heterogeneous data types including 2D digital video, 3D motion capture data, annotated timelines, silhouettes, pathway data, scans, etc. In addition to the collections related to the projects referred to above, new dance related datasets are continuously emerging including the Pina Bausch Digital Archive and the on-line publication of historically key media libraries of important dance venues such as Tanzquartier Wien. Additionally, a small suite of open software systems for recording and data management, annotation and on-line publication has been created in the frame of the Motion Bank project. C-DaRE intends to establish a new trans-disciplinary research environment to build on these previous, on-going and new projects; utilising its global networks to lead the way in dance data-driven artistic, scientific and scholarly research.

Some of the initial questions to be asked are about the relationships between these very diverse data sets. Where are the overlaps of information? What can be discovered to form the basis for more advanced questions? What can be done with these datasets? Can lightweight artistic coding tools be used to probe the specificity of the material? Can specific viewers be built for different kinds of data that is sensitive to the material? What happens in digitising dance, in other words, what are the meta-theoretical questions corresponding to the cultural value of choreography and dance? How does the background of these projects and extensive documentation inform the probing of the data? And how can future dance recordings be informed by what is discovered? How can a variety of artistic, scholarly and scientific outcomes best be achieved?

With this framework in mind, C-DaRE wishes to apply for a Mare Curie European Fellowship to host a Fellow with a combined artistic and scientific practice, who specialises in a wide range of technologies such as data analysis and visualisation, machine learning, computer vision, creative tools such as Processing, openFrameworks or VVVV, and who is keen to be part of this trans-disciplinary research environment for one to two years.

Please send expressions of interest by 24 June 2016 to both:

Scott deLahunta scott@motionbank.org

Florian Jenett florian@motionbank.org

(1)

http://www.siobhandaviesreplay.com/

http://openendedgroup.com/artworks/cla.html

http://synchronousobjects.osu.edu/

http://insidemovementknowledge.net/

http://motionbank.org/

http://choreographiccoding.org/

The University of Michigan Library announces the publication of a resource dedicated to helping understand the Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) and implement similar copyright review projects.

Finding the Public Domain Toolkit: Identifying Items Not Subject to Copyright

13 June 2016 – The University of Michigan Library announces the publication of Finding the Public Domain: Copyright Review Management System Toolkit, a resource dedicated to helping others understand the Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) and implement similar copyright review projects.

Working over a span of nearly eight years, with generous support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the University of Michigan Library led a cooperative effort of nineteen partner research libraries to identify books in the public domain in the HathiTrust Digital Library. That effort, CRMS, has successfully performed over 330,000 copyright determinations for U.S. published volumes and over 180,000 determinations for volumes published in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

Melissa Levine, CRMS Principal Investigator and Lead Copyright Officer at the University of Michigan Library, recommends the Toolkit as “a significant and vital resource for more fully realizing the promise of the public domain.”

Mike Furlough, Executive Director of HathiTrust said that, “cooperative work has been the key to HathiTrust’s success, and there is no better example of this than the CRMS project. CRMS has enriched our understanding of the public domain. Users of the Toolkit will see that it has developed a methodology for copyright investigations that is as legally sound as it is innovative.”

The CRMS Toolkit, which provides a window into the collaboration, research methods and technology behind CRMS, aims to share this transformative activity broadly. The Toolkit is available for free as an e-book. Print copies, offered for sale on a cost recovery basis, are available through Amazon.

Last month, the CRMS project received the American Library Association’s 2016 L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award. For the ALA announcement, Kenny Crews, a former winner of the Patterson award and attorney and Professor of Law at Columbia University, remarked that the CRMS workflow “integrates the potential of research methods, technology, law, and transformed library services.” Sharon Farb, UCLA associate university librarian, lauded the importance of the CRMS “collaborative community based approach” to copyright review and expanding awareness of the public domain. Peter Hirtle of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, said of the CRMS project that he was “hard pressed to think of a group that has done more to assist librarians in identifying, understanding, and expanding the public domain.”

Publication of the Toolkit was made possible through close collaboration with Michigan Publishing Services, a department of the University of Michigan Library, which offers a suite of services and expertise that increase the visibility, reach, and impact of scholarship originating at the University of Michigan and beyond.

Learn more about CRMS.

For more information contact Melissa Smith Levine at mslevine@umich.edu