Digital Community Heritage Working Group

In 2022 the Creative Commons Open Culture Platform initiated 6 working groups, proposed and voted by its members, to discuss aspects related to open culture.

The Digital Community Heritage Working Group focuses on Community Heritage initiatives in the context of open access and inclusive digital transformation. As part of our research, we released a survey to collect cases of international digital community heritage initiatives. We set out to analyse the cases, identify best practices and common challenges, publishing our insights in open access.

Digital community heritage initiatives are moving towards more sustainable and responsible models of participatory cultural data governance and openness, with the collaboration between communities, the public, GLAMs and other interested institutions. By encouraging multiple participants, these cultural heritage initiatives intrinsically yield diverse perspectives while practising cultural data mindfulness.

Read our multilingual end report:

Join the Creative Commons Open Culture Platform

Our group is comprised of an international team of archivists, librarians, scholars/researchers, cultural heritage professionals and open culture enthusiasts with a common interest in digital community heritage. Get involved with the Creative Commons Open Culture Platform in any of the following ways:

• Subscribe to the OpenGLAM mailing list to receive regular updates;

• Follow us on social media via Twitter and the Open GLAM Medium platform, where we’ll also announce new releases and updates;

• Reach out directly via email at: info[at]openglam.org

• Reach out directly to the co-leads of the Digital Community Heritage Working Group: Bettina Fabos (fabos[at]uni.edu) and Mariana Ziku (ziku[at]mail.com)

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Digital Community Heritage Working Group, Creative Commons Open Platform, 2022