A slideshow on the future of online heritage

1. iHeritage
From ‘view’ to ‘embed’ to ‘remix’ and ‘republish’:
The future of heritage

2. What is heritage?
“I explain that heritage is what ever each
one of us individually or collectively wish to
preserve and pass on to the next
generation. If we want to preserve
something, then it is our heritage.”
‘Is everything heritage?’
by François LeBlanc, 1993

3. who decides?

4. Values
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| Natural Built Persons Traditions
|___|_________|_______|_________|________
/-You
/-Family
/-Community
/-Region
/-Province/State
/-Country
/-World

5. how?
How do we preserve our heritage for future
generations?

6. By passing it on.

7. The history of ‘passing it
on’

9. quot;Musei Wormiani Historiaquot;, the frontispiece from the Museum Wormianum depicting Ole Worm's cabinet of curiosities, public
domain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Musei_Wormiani_Historia.jpg

10. The British Museum from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:British_Museum_from_NE_2.JPG GNU FDL

13. www
2 stages:
1. ‘I show you’
2. I show you and you show others’

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15. exclusive rights to
republish

16. ‘look but don’t touch’

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21. ‘take what you need and
pass it on’

22. renewing the commons
• Creative Commons copyright
• renewal of the public domain
• testing the boundaries of fair use

23. From the age of access
to the age of the
amateur

24. user-created content is
soaring
- 5,000 bloggers in SA
- PDFbooks.co.za
- open education
- zoopy.com for video

25. ‘pass it on’ copyright is ‘some rights
reserved’ or in the public domain