OpenGLAM

OpenGLAM is an initiative run by the Open Knowledge Foundation. It promotes free and open access to digital cultural heritage, held by GLAMs: Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums.[1]. It is identical with "Workpackage 4" of DM2E (Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana)[2]
The definition of 'Open'
"A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it - subject only, at most, to the requirement to give credit to the author and/or making any resulting work available under the same terms as the original work".[3]
Aim of the initiative
Aim of the movement is to make digitized cultural heritage available to the public as much as possible, allowing users not only to enjoy but also to contribute, share, reuse and remix.[4] Also institutions/platforms like Wikimedia Commons and Europeana are able to use results of OpenGLAM.
References
Further reading
- Sharing is Caring. Openness and sharing in the cultural heritage sector edited by Merete Sanderhoff; Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst 2014 (available as free download), esp. page 23-24