Top Open Arts Secrets

open art :

Museums around the world hold enormous troves of public domain

artworks.

As well as building blocks in the hands of pupils, professors, teachers, programmers

And creative people. By opening up their digitized resources for reuse, museums have

A unique opportunity to broaden the scope of their public mission to serve and

Educate the public on 21st-century media conditions. What could be controversial

about that? Art museums have a long legacy of limiting access to high quality

Images of artworks so as to secure them from improper use, and also to be in a position to

Secure earnings from picture sales. Nonetheless, in the age of easy and ubiquitous online

Image sharing, prohibitive licensing is severely contested both as a way to control

Keywords:

Digitized collections, image licensing, open access policy, public

Versions, OpenGLAM.

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"If they wish to have a Vermeer on their toilet paper,

I'd rather have a very high-quality image of Vermeer

On toilet paper than a very bad reproduction."

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Tops, and street seller product,

Rijksmuseum is one of a little but

Growing variety of art museums that stand

Out and take another stand to the

Challenges inflicted on the ethnic heritage

Sector by electronic technologies.

As a member of this Europeana Network

Research is invested in researching the

Conditions for memorial clinics in the digital

collections. Museums are confronting radical

Changes caused by the rapid technological

Development and the changing behaviour

Patterns it involves. With the advent of the

Social and internet media, audiences have

Become users that are unhappy with just

Passively receiving information and content;

They are utilized to engaging actively

Themselves, making their own knowledge,

Opinions, and imagination.

As more people enjoy and become used to

Participatory learning and entertainment experiences,

They want to do more than simply'attend' cultural events

And associations. The social Web has ushered in a

Dizzying collection of tools and design patterns which make

Participation more accessible than ever. Visitors

Anticipate the ability to respond and be taken seriously.

They anticipate the ability to talk, share, and remix

What they consume (Simon 2010:ii).

What does such participation, however, suggest

For museums should they empower its users to

discuss,

Digital artworks? Firstly, it

Suggests allowing people to download images

And share them on social media like blogs,

Discuss and comment images independently

Of a memorial framework. Second,