Publications

Here, we collect publications to help you with your digital archiving practice – making it easy for you to find relevant reports, records, tender dossiers and tech blogs from meemoo itself.
6/6/2023
  • Tech Blog

The ethics of open sharing

At meemoo, we believe that content is more valuable when it’s shared, and more and more Flemish organisations and institutions are also recognising the importance of open sharing. But what about the various ethical issues that this brings with it? As a service organisation, we’re providing the necessary support, and we’re not alone – developing sustainable solutions together with an (inter)national network. In recent months, for example, meemoo has been actively involved in the Creative Commons Ethics of Open Sharing working group.This has resulted in a card game that is designed to initiate conversations about ethics within your organisation and sharpen up your critical thinking skills – all in an accessible way. 
9/3/2023
  • Record

Public Domain Day 2023

Public domain collections can be accessed online, making them the ideal place to get started with your open data policy. Every year since 2018, Public Domain Day has been offering the heritage sector a platform to share their achievements, challenges and visions for providing access to collections that are no longer protected by copyright. This year on 15 February, we organised an event together with the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), Wikimedia Belgium and Ghent University Library.
Lots of collections currently have hardly any descriptive metadata, which limits the findability and searchability of their content and prevents them from being reused. Adding metadata manually is also very time-consuming task, which is why we’ve set up two projects to investigate what possibilities artificial intelligence can offer for automatic metadata creation. This technology needs to be treated with caution, however. In this tech blog, we take a close look at the legal and ethical challenges.
10/2/2022
  • Record

Public Domain Day 2022

Public domain collections are collections that can be accessed online without any issues, which makes them ideal for starting to implement your open data policy. Every year, Public Domain Day offers organisations in the heritage sector a platform where they can share their achievements, challenges and visions for providing access to collections which are no longer protected by copyright. We organised a webinar around these issues on 10 February – together with KBR (Royal Library of Belgium), Wikimedia Belgium, Ghent University Library and Collections of Ghent.
We receive more and more helpdesk requests in our virtual letterbox every year. In 2020, we counted almost 300 requests for advice from over 150 different people and organisations. But who actually calls on our services, what requests do they make, and what do they think of us? We explain everything here.
Meemoo was a partner in this project, which is a follow-up to the feasibility study ‘Depositing digital publications from Flanders’ in 2014.

Search on CEST

At projectcest.be you can learn how to use standards in the creation and management of your digital cultural heritage collections, as well as how to make them accessible.

Search on TRACKS

At projecttracks.be you can learn how you as an artist or arts organisation can use tools and guidelines to take care of your archive and collections.