In part 3 of our blog series on colonial collections we feature an expert interview with Andrea Wallace on the legal and ethical issues around digitisation and open data. The restitution process depends on digitisation to achieve transparency, but who should own and make decisions about the digital surrogates and intellectual property produced?
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Securing access to cultural heritage is a central concern of Wikimedia - and the digitized copies of collections in museums are one of the prerequisites for free knowledge - for example in Wikipedia. How to handle objects from the colonial past is of particular importance in this context. Part 2 of a series of blog posts.
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For Wikimedia, it is an essential goal to secure access to cultural heritage – and the digital copies in museum collections are among the prerequisites for Free Knowledge in the Wikipedia, for example. How to handle objects from the colonial past is of particular importance in this context. Part 1 of a series of blog posts.
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