Appendix 3. Top 10 countries with open GLAM participation
Note: Each country profile ends with a list of primarily well-known institutions that do not engage in open GLAM activity. The list is illustrative rather than exhaustive to demonstrate which big players are missing and therefore excluded from the data.
# 1. United States - 292 instances
Figure 19. Publication platforms used in the United States[1]
Total volume: 10,662,295 assets
The United States leads on open GLAM instances. It also has the most legally compliant open GLAM practice. This could be due to greater legal consensus in case law on the question of copyright, which also informs and is cited in the Wikimedia Commons policy on digital surrogates.[2]
Indeed, the most common platform for publication is Wikimedia Commons (201 or 69.1% of US instances). This is partly due to a 2019 collaboration between the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and Wikimedia Commons to incorporate the national aggregator's cultural artefacts into Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.[3] A year later, the DPLA also introduced a copyright status filter based on controlled rights fields, enabling users to search for media that can be used, shared, or modified for personal, educational, or commercial use.[4]
In addition, 56 US GLAMs publish open collections via their own website. Of these, 49 (16.8%) publish all eligible data to the public domain on their own websites, and often at medium to very high-resolution formats. Within the Smithsonian Institution alone, there are more than 19 organisations and collections that publish all eligible data to the public domain.[5] The Smithsonian
- ↑ Figures: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6242179
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright
- ↑ https://dp.la/news/dpla-cultural-artifacts-coming-to-wikipedia-through-new-collaboration-with-wikimedia-foundation?mc_cid%3Def55eb9c56&mc_eid=[UNIQID]
- ↑ https://dp.la/about/rights-categories
- ↑ Anacostia Community Museum; Arthur M. Sackler Gallery; Arts and Industries Building; Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Freer Gallery of Art; Hirshhom Museum and Sculpture Garden; National Air and Space Museum; National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center; National Museum of African American History and Culture; National Museum of African Art; National Museum of American History; National Museum of Natural History; National Museum of the American Indian; National Portrait Gallery; National Postal Museum; The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Smithsonian Gardens; Smithsonian Institution Archives; and Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The Smithsonian National Zoological Park and some of the research institutes are not included in the data.
