The Sunflower is Mine. Paradoxical Patterns in the Public Domain, Icepops, 9 September 2025

GLAM-E Lab & Open GLAM Toolkit, OCEAN, 6 June 2025

In perpetuity? The strange digital afterlife of copyright in museums, Paul Mellon Centre, 20 January 2025

United Nations SDGs and the Open GLAM survey, Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 26 April 2024

Selling Sunset, Royal Library of Belgium, 7 March 2024

Digital Alchemy – Open Access Innovation for Museum Collections, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 24 November 2023

This is not IP I’m familiar with – The strange afterlife and untapped potential of public domain content in GLAM institutions, Open and Engaged 2023, British Library, 30 October 2023

INSERT COIN – How Museums Try and Mostly Fail to Monetise Public Domain Heritage, Gikii 2023, 8 September 2023

Open – connecting cultural heritage with digital audiences, keynote given at Taiwan’s International Conference on Museums and Cultural Democracy, 7 October 2022

Open GLAM today, Museumsverband Sachsen-Anhalt, 13 September 2022

Hawking Hogarth with Dr Andrea Wallace, Icepops 2022, 8 September 2022

How to find great open access content with Medhavi Gandhi, Digital Storytelling Festival 2022

Where are we now? Reflections on Open GLAM today, Creative Commons, 17 March 2022

Reuse of heritage data and open licences, SunoikisisDC, 24 February 2022

It’s yours: Democratising cultural heritage with open access, Heritage Collections Management, 3 February 2022

Open approaches: aggregation and engagement at Europeana, Data to Power, 24 January 2022

Open GLAM: It’s Yours, Public Domain Day, Nigeria, 16 January 2022

Open access to cultural heritage: opportunities and challenges, Conocimiento Abierto, Chile, 26 October 2021

Golden Records: Information and Fragility in the Digital Realm, Max Planck Institute for Art History, 22 March 2021

From tweet to sheet: crowdsourcing a global survey of Open GLAM, csv,conf,v6, 5 May 2021

New Horizons in Open GLAM, Intellectual Property and Heritage Restitution, SunoikisisDC, 11 March 2021

Open GLAM: It’s Yours, Open Archief, Rotterdam, 25 February 2021

Open GLAM Christmas, with Dr Andrea Wallace, UK Copyright Literacy (recording), December 2020

A brief introduction to the Open GLAM survey, UNESCO Bangkok webinar (slides), 9 October 2020

Content licensing in the GLAM sector, Asian Licensing Conference, Hong Kong, 7 January 2020

What Open Access principles do we need for cultural heritage?, Managing Rights Data: Multiple Approaches, Multiple Institutions, VRA, Baltimore, 2 June 2020

You, me and Open GLAM, keynote for Coding da Vinci Westfalen-Ruhrgebiet 2019

Open: Enabling creative reuse in GLAM, University of Hamburg, 22 May 2019

Open Access for an Open Society: GLAM Insights, re:publica19, Berlin, 7 May 2019 (YouTube)

Insight from a global survey of Open GLAM, with Sarah Powell, NDF 2019, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 19 November 2019

Open GLAM around the world: Developing a global survey of open access policy and practice in the GLAM sector, with Dr Andrea Wallace, GLAMWiki Conference, Tel Aviv, 5 November 2018

Let’s Connect the World with Culture, Liburutegiaren Eguna, San Sebastián

Transfer des Wissens – From Hamburg to the World, Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg, 2 April 2019

Europeana at Ten: Insights from our first decade, Open GLAM México, 6. September 2018

The More You Give, The More You Get, Helsinki, 15 February 2018

Positive Exposure – Connecting Culture with Europeana, Memoriav, Lausanne, 16 November 2018

Des nouvelles d’Europeana, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, 11 December 2017

Europeana and You, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 6 October 2017

Making the Most of It: Reuse and Content Production for Learning with Friederike Fankhänel, Sharing is Caring Hamburg, 21 April 2017


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