GLAM-E Lab: An interdisciplinary digitization clinic for smaller and less well-resourced cultural institutions and community organizations

该项目扩展了对数字化和开放获取计划的思考和实践，以及规模较小、资源不足的英国和美国文化机构和社区组织的实施。它通过建立一个跨学科的跨境诊所（GLAM-E实验室），为文化机构和社区组织提供法律和数字化方面的支持，并共同制作经过测试和可扩展的最佳实践资源，以支持项目之外的数字遗产计划。遗产部门对建立成功的开放获取项目和探索由此产生的新商业模式越来越感兴趣。然而，对于规模较小、资源较少的文化机构和社区组织来说，参与开放获取项目仍然过于困难和昂贵。这是因为，由于法律的和文化方面的挑战，出现了障碍和风险，这可能会重新引发有关准入、归还、遣返、敏感性和代表性的旧争端。这些挑战提出了一些关键问题，比如：我们应该放弃吗？谁（如果有的话）拥有数字复制的权利？开放获取是否适合这些数字材料？同样，如果复制品的使用违反了法律或伤害了他人，谁来承担责任？关于这些问题的现有指导往往是静态的，或者是由单一项目的经验形成的，这给规模较小、资源不足的文化机构和社区组织留下了巨大的空白。除非得到解决，否则这些挑战将继续阻碍数字化参与和锁定文化数据。GLAM-E实验室创建了一个新的资源，使用互补和反思的方法来弥合这一差距。GLAM-E实验室在埃克塞特大学法学院和纽约大学法学院恩格尔伯格创新法律与政策中心与机构和社区合作伙伴建立了跨学科的跨境数字化诊所。首先，GLAM-E实验室直接向致力于实施开放获取计划和在线发布数字馆藏的英国和美国实验室参与者提供无偿法律的和数字化支持。其次，实验室将利用从临床支持中吸取的经验教训，为更广泛的遗产社区共同开发最佳实践工具包。第三，在2023年，实验室公开开放并邀请新的参与者来测试和扩展GLAM-E实验室的方法和资源。GLAM-E Lab汇集了英国和美国法律、数字人文和博物馆研究领域的从业者、学者和学生，以克服数字化和开放获取计划的法律的和文化障碍。通过这项工作，实验室将探索与文化材料的法律的地位，数字化的道德方法，开放获取和新的商业模式有关的关键问题。GLAM-E实验室将改善数字化项目和数字化参与的可持续性的全球条件，从而产生遗产管理，人文和法律方面的新知识。该项目将通过GLAM-E实验室的诊所、网站、研讨会和出版物传播研究成果。这个项目有助于超过一个单一的学科，文化机构，或收藏。GLAM-E实验室的活动和成果将使任何文化机构或社区组织能够应对阻碍馆藏数字化及其参与开放获取运动的挑战。

This Project expands thinking and practice on digitization and open access programs and their implementation by smaller and less well-resourced UK and US cultural institutions and community organizations. It does so by establishing an interdisciplinary cross-border clinic (GLAM-E Lab) that provides cultural institutions and community organizations with support on aspects of law and digitization, and it co-produces tested and scalable best practice resources to support digital heritage initiatives beyond the Project. The heritage sector is increasingly interested in building successful open access programs and exploring the new business models that flow from them. However, participating in open access programs remains too difficult and expensive for smaller and less well-resourced cultural institutions and community organizations. This is because obstacles and risks arise due to legal and cultural challenges, which can revive old disputes around access, restitution, repatriation, sensitivity, and representation. These challenges pose critical questions like: Should we digitize? Who (if anyone) owns rights to the digital reproduction? Is open access appropriate for these digital materials? Similarly, who is liable if the reproduction is used in a way that violates the law or harms others? Existing guidance on these questions is often static, or shaped by the experience of a single program, leaving significant gaps for smaller and less well-resourced cultural institutions and community organizations. Until addressed, these challenges will continue to hinder digitally-enabled participation and lock-in cultural data. GLAM-E Lab creates a new resource to bridge this gap using complementary and reflexive approaches. GLAM-E Lab establishes an interdisciplinary cross-border digitization clinic at the University of Exeter Law School and NYU Law School Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy with institutional and community partners. First, GLAM-E Lab provides pro bono legal and digitization support directly to UK and US lab participants working to implement open access programs and release digital collections online. Second, the Lab will use the lessons learned from that clinical support to co-develop a best practice tool-kit for the wider heritage community. Third, in 2023, the Lab publicly opens and invites new participants to test and expand the GLAM-E Lab methods and resources. GLAM-E Lab brings together UK and US practitioners, academics, and students from Law, Digital Humanities, and Museum Studies to overcome the legal and cultural obstacles to digitization and open access programs. Through this work, the Lab will explore key questions related to the legal status of cultural materials, ethical approaches to digitization, and open access and new business models. GLAM-E Lab will improve global conditions for the sustainability of digitization projects and digitally-enabled participation, leading to the generation of new knowledge in heritage management, humanities, and law. The Project will disseminate the research via GLAM-E's Lab's clinics, website, workshops, and publications. This Project contributes to more than a single discipline, cultural institution, or collection. GLAM-E Lab activities and outputs will enable any cultural institution or community organization to tackle the challenges preventing collections digitization and their participation in the open access movement.