Collections – The Public Domain Review

Find here all the posts in Curator's Choice, a series which came to an end in February 2016. Each month we featured a special guest post from a gallery, library, archive or museum curator reflecting upon a group of works in one of their open digital collections – that is, public domain material which has had no restrictions placed on it as it’s been digitised and made available online. This series aimed to be a celebratory spotlight on both the institutions making the exciting steps of openly licensing their digital collections and also the curators that work everyday with such collections – as well, of course, as being a celebration of the content itself. The series was undertaken in partnership with OpenGLAM and made possible through funding from the European Union’s DM2E project.

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Tempest Anderson: Pioneer of Volcano Photography

THE YORKSHIRE MUSEUM – Pat Hadley, Sarah King and Stuart Ogilvy present a fascinating selection of photographs from the collection of Tempest Anderson, the pioneeri…more

Cuttings from a Medieval Italian Choirbook

THE BRITISH LIBRARY – James Freeman explores cuttings from a huge 14th century Italian choirbook and how digital technology is now helping scholars build a picture …more

Ambassadors, milkmaids, and hot air balloons

ZENTRALBIBLIOTHEK SOLOTHURN – Patrick Borer picks out some highlights from their collection of 18th-century prints and looks at what they tell us about life in a Sw…more

The History of the Ordinary

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY – Laura Bang and Ruth Martin explore an early 20th-century scrapbook put together by Company 62 of the New York City Fire Department….more

Music manuscripts from the 17th and 18th centuries in the British Library

THE BRITISH LIBRARY – Sandra Tuppen explores some highlights from their digitised collection of music manuscripts, including those penned by the hand of Haydn, Hand…more

The Manuscripts of Emily Dickinson

AMHERST COLLEGE – Mike Kelly explores highlights from their Emily Dickinson collection, a huge variety of manuscript forms – from concert programmes to chocolate wr…more

The World According to Pitt

UK NATIONAL ARCHIVES – Jo Pugh explores the newly digitised letters of former British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and his sister Hester, and how their c…more

Carel and Abraham Allard in the Court of Momus

RIJKSMUSEUM – Daniel Horst explores the controversial collection of satirical etchings published by Abraham Allard in Amsterdam ca. 1708 under the title ‘t Lusthof …more

Canada Through a Lens: the British Library Colonial Copyright Collection

THE BRITISH LIBRARY – Phil Hatfield and Andrew Gray kick off our brand new Curator’s Choice series by taking a look at the fascinating array of photographs in the B…more

The majority of the digital copies featured are in the public domain or under an open license all over the world, however, some works may not be so in all jurisdictions. On each Collections post we’ve done our best to indicate which rights we think apply, so please do check and look into more detail where necessary, before reusing. All articles published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. Strong Freedom in the Zone.

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