A presentation given as part of the Open Access panel at the International Image Interoperability Framework event held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on May 10, 2016. Merete Sanderhoff National Gallery of Denmark

1. Open Images
for IIIF
CC BY-SA 4.0 Ida Tietgen Høyrup
@MSanderhoff
Access to the World’s Images
MoMA, 10 May 2016

2. CC BY-SA 4.0 Ida Tietgen Høyrup
About SMK
The National Gallery of Denmark
Western art from 1300 to the present
450,000 visitors a year
260,000 artworks
66 % in the public domain
27 % digitised

3. 2,000 artworks
on display

4. Only 0.76 % of the collections
physically accessible

5. ”There is not a single physical space
where all our heritage can be shown,
but on the Internet you can.”
Lizzy Jongma
data manager, Rijksmuseum
http://pro.europeana.eu/files/Europeana_Professional/Publications/Democratising
%20the%20Rijksmuseum.pdf

6. Galleries
Libraries
Archives
Museums
http://openglam.org/

7. Works that are in the Public Domain in
analogue form continue to be in the Public
Domain once they have been digitised.
http://pro.europeana.eu/files/Europeana_Professional/Publications/Public%20Domain%20Charter%20-%20EN.pdf

8. Pioneers

9. SMK’s first digital strategy, 2009
We want to be a
catalyst for
users’ creativity

11. 25,000 images
for free download

12. https://twitter.com/PUBDOMAINHULK
A growing public demand

13. Our collections are promiscuous!
Pieter Aertsen , The Fat Kitchen. An Allegory, SMK. Public domain

14. SMK in Google Art

15. SMK in Artstor

16. SMK in SkoleTube

17. SMK in Europeana

18. SMK in Wikimedia

19. IIIF ?

20. ”Our role is still more to facilitate public use of
cultural heritage for learning, creativity, and
innovation.
Today, learning happens in reciprocity.
We are all a part of the web.
We shape each other.”
Mikkel Bogh
Director, SMK
http://bit.ly/1dMX0BJ

22. sharingiscaring.smk.dk

23. Thank you.
CC BY-SA 4.0 Ida Tietgen Høyrup
@MSanderhoff
Access to the World’s Images
MoMA, 10 May 2016