Open Culture vs Open Research
I have been an open research advocate for many years, but have not yet written much about open culture. In fact, I hadn’t thought much about the term before I came across a Creative Commons blog post. Open Culture As it turns out, “open culture” seems to be a relatively new term, also to them. The CC team shares three reasons for using the term: Open culture is readily understandable and does not include an unfamiliar acronym Open culture is broad in scope envisioning open sharing of cultural heritage as a participatory experience Open culture encapsulates the synergies between culture as heritage and as contemporary creativity Their approach appears to be mostly centered on the needs of “GLAMs”: galleries, libraries, archives, and museums....