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Welcome to episode ten of Open Culture VOICES! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to bring you various perspectives from dozens of experts speaking in many different languages on what it’s like to open up heritage content online. In this episode, we’re joined by Jill Cousins, CEO & Director of The Hunt Museum in Limerick, Ireland. The Hunt Museum exhibits one of Ireland’s greatest private collections of Art and Antiquities, dating from the Neolithic Period to the 20th century. Jill has been pivotal in their work on digitization and opening up the collection to new audiences. Prior to joining The Hunt Museum, she was the Executive Director of Europeana Foundation.

Jill responds to the following questions: 

1. What are the main benefits of open GLAM?
2. What are the barriers?
3. Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?
4. Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?

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Episodes will be released twice a week until June 2022. Missed episode nine of our Open Culture VOICES series? Catch up here >>

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Welcome to episode nine of Open Culture VOICES! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to bring you various perspectives from dozens of experts speaking in many different languages on what it’s like to open up heritage content online. On this episode, Stéphane Chantalat, Head of the Computerization and Digitization of Collections Department at Paris Musées, shares his insights and experience with Open GLAM.

Stéphane responds to the following questions: 

1. What are the main benefits of open GLAM?
2. What are the barriers?
3. Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?
4. Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?

Closed captions are available for this video, you can turn them on by clicking the CC icon at the bottom of the video. A red line will appear under the icon when closed captions have been enabled. Closed captions may be affected by Internet connectivity — if you experience a lag, we recommend watching the videos directly on YouTube.

Episodes will be released twice a week until June 2022. Missed episode seven of our Open Culture VOICES series? Catch up here >>

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In 2020, we entered the last Decade of Action to implement the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As the target date for achieving the SDGs draws closer, UNESCO is engaging its Member States and the international community in a renewed reflection on cultural policies to address global challenges and set immediate and future priorities to shape a more robust and resilient cultural sector fully anchored in sustainable development prospects.

In preparation for the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development — Mondiacult 2022, Creative Commons participated in the ResiliArt x Mondiacult initiative and hosted a webinar on Wednesday, 23 February 2022 to explore how open access to cultural heritage materials encourages artists to discover, share, and remix such materials.

Our ResiliArt x Mondiacult webinar brought together artists and heritage professionals to share their vision for better sharing of cultural heritage to support contemporary creativity in the digital space. The panelists discussed, among other things, the power of open licensing and the importance of Creative Commons infrastructure as a catalyst for the dissemination and revitalization of culture.

Panelists include: 

• Brigitte Vézina | Director of Policy, Open Culture, and GLAM at Creative Commons (Moderator)
• Hessel van Oorschot | Founder & “Chief of Noise” at Tribe of Noise
• Eddie Grey | Los Angeles-based composer, arranger, songwriter, and sound designer 
• Iván Martínez | Free knowledge activist and human rights defender at R3D 
• Jesica Pullo | Founding Director at BIOTICO & Co-creator of Wiki meets Sustainable Fashion 

We plan to continue these conversations throughout the year — visit CC’s Open Culture Program page to learn more and for the latest updates >>

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We are all affected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In the interests of global peace, whether or not you have family or friends in Ukraine, the brutal aggression by a neighboring state creating a war affecting millions of innocent people has to be condemned in the strongest way possible.

As a global not-for-profit, with a community across the world that believes in democratic values, we stand with those Ukrainians upholding democracy, defending freedom and the rule of law.

In the context of mobile connectivity, this is like no other war that has gone before.  As Thomas Friedman aptly describes in today’s New York Times,  we are “wired together more intimately than ever before by telecommunications; satellites; trade; the internet; road, rail and air networks; financial markets and supply chains…. Welcome to World War Wired-the first war in a totally interconnected world.”

This highlights the importance of openness, so that scrutiny can properly be brought to bear, so that accountability is not hidden from the public. This also casts light on regimes restricting, or otherwise skewing, access to information, news, and knowledge.  Something we strive to overcome. Our community stands in solidarity with Ukraine.

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Join the CC Open Education Platform on Tuesday, 8 March, 2022 at 9 p.m. UTC / 4 p.m. EST for an Open Education Week round of Open Education Lightning Talks.

By popular demand, the CC Open Education Platform is bringing back our Open Education Lightning Talks Series. We are kicking off the first round of this series on Tuesday, 8 March, 2022 at 9 p.m. UTC / 4 p.m. EST in celebration of Open Education Week. 

What are lightning talks?

Lightning talks are concise presentations that provide a specific update or story. During our open education lightning talks, open education practitioners will discuss their work in 7 minutes and take questions (2 minutes) in a supportive space. Everyone is welcome. Join us!

Speakers and presentations:  

• Kathryn Kure, CEO at STEAM Foundation NPC | Enabling OERs at No Additional Cost
• Dr. Carolyn Stevenson, Faculty Member and Faculty Advisor at Purdue University Global | Promoting Educational Equity through OERs and Open Degree Plans
• Sybil Priebe, Associate Professor at North Dakota State College of Science | The Venn Diagram of OEP and Ungrading is a Circle
• Alan Levine, Director of Member Strategy and Community Engagement for Open Education Global | Still Amazing: True Stories of Openness
• Liza Long, Department Chair of Integrated Studies at the College of Western Idaho | Student Scholars: Publishing Student OER Work 
• Suzanne Wakim, Faculty Member and Distance Education Coordinator at Butte College | Evolution of a State-Wide OER Initiative
• Judith Sebesta, Executive Director of the Digital Higher Education Consortium of Texas and the President of the Executive Council of CCCOER | Deep in the Open Heart of Texas

Date: Tuesday 8 March 2022
Time: 9:00 – 10:15 PM UTC / 4:00 – 5:15 PM EST / 8:00 – 9:30 PST | Check your local time zone
Location: Join us from wherever you are based! We’ll be using Zoom to host the event. If you haven’t installed Zoom, download it here.

Watch our last round of Open Education Lightning Talks here >>

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