# Webinars CHOSN webinars take place to address the topics of interests within the community. They are announced via the network mailing list. Presentations and recordings of the webinars are deposited (if permitted by the authors) in the [British Library's Research Repository](https://bl.iro.bl.uk/collections/c5e3dc34-9a88-4666-b0c4-22d7bd71a0ba?locale=en) as a collection. Check out the sub-pages for the list of webinars. *** {% columns %} {% column width="25%" %} 13 January 2026 {% endcolumn %} {% column width="75%" %} [Copyright versus the Public Domain.](https://doi.org/10.23636/htsz-sq90) Alison Davidson, Copyright Manager at the British Library. This discussion on Public Domain Day highlighted the basics of copyright, emphasising its automatic nature and the distinction from trademarks and patents. Copyright duration varies by country, often linked to the creator's death, with a minimum term of life of the creator plus 50 years under the Berne Convention. The rule of the shorter term applies within a country, affecting how works are treated across different jurisdictions. {% endcolumn %} {% endcolumns %} *** {% columns %} {% column width="25%" %} 29 April 2025 {% endcolumn %} {% column width="75%" %} [Sharing Cultural Heritage Images as Data: WorldFAIR Project Recommendations](/chosn/webinars/29-april-2025.md). Beth Knazook , Project Manager at the Digital Repository of Ireland. This webinar introduces the [WorldFAIR Project](https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fworldfair-project.eu%2F\&data=05%7C02%7C%7C97d87ace1bbf4f3b0eea08dd7bf7c07e%7C21a44cb7f9c34f009afabd1e8e88bcd9%7C0%7C0%7C638803026240443956%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C\&sdata=asnTeWp9FTStuUa7P%2BheElHOyuS8iPT1mtaoj96NyEU%3D\&reserved=0) (2022-2024) recommendations for [sharing cultural heritage images as data](https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.5281%2Fzenodo.7897244\&data=05%7C02%7C%7C97d87ace1bbf4f3b0eea08dd7bf7c07e%7C21a44cb7f9c34f009afabd1e8e88bcd9%7C0%7C0%7C638803026240469165%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C\&sdata=ax%2FkhSiYQoil5%2FSGmWCzs4jlFXwxUhcLradNhhMFdNc%3D\&reserved=0). Participants will learn about the origins of this work within the larger, global ‘collections as data’ movement in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) community, and develop an understanding of how the [FAIR principles for research data](https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.go-fair.org%2Ffair-principles%2F\&data=05%7C02%7C%7C97d87ace1bbf4f3b0eea08dd7bf7c07e%7C21a44cb7f9c34f009afabd1e8e88bcd9%7C0%7C0%7C638803026240483190%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C\&sdata=uoOR67RFUhijbyQHl8W7tH6bUl7H8u8fk%2ByLknlph8E%3D\&reserved=0), widely adopted by the academic sector, align with existing GLAM professional practices. The webinar will conclude with some practical examples of the recommendations in action at the Digital Repository of Ireland and touch on future directions and developments. {% endcolumn %} {% endcolumns %} *** {% columns %} {% column width="25%" %} 18 February 2025 {% endcolumn %} {% column width="75%" %} [Opening the Collections: case studies from the University of Manchester Library](/chosn/webinars/18-february-2025.md). Jane Gallagher, Head of Digital Special Collections at the University of Manchester. In this webinar, we welcome [Jane Gallagher](https://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/about/library-leadership/lt/jane-gallagher/), Head of Digital Special Collections at the University of Manchester. Jane will discuss the University of Manchester Library’s experiences of making cultural heritage collections open for scholarship, with the challenges and opportunities which this brings. Working with heritage collections in digital form, we often balance between preservation and access, user demand and service capabilities, Open aspirations and guarded instincts. Considering our audiences, our tools and standards, the potential for collaboration and the opportunities for confronting historical biases, Jane will share the Library’s different approaches to providing and using cultural heritage collections for open scholarship, and consider future possibilities from the explosion of access to AI tools. {% endcolumn %} {% endcolumns %} *** {% columns %} {% column width="25%" %} 7 November 2024 {% endcolumn %} {% column width="75%" %} [Getting started with ARK persistent identifiers. John Kunze, Computer scientist](/chosn/webinars/7-november-2024.md) - ARK Alliance & Drexel University Metadata Research Center. This webinar introduces [ARK](https://arks.org/) (Archival Resource Key) persistent identifiers. As non-paywalled PIDs (persistent identifiers, permalinks) for information objects of any kind, ARKs support durable web addresses (e.g., that don’t return 404 Page Not Found). Since 2001, 8.2 billion ARKs have been created by over 1400 organizations — libraries, data centers, publishers, archives, museums, and government agencies. With highly flexible metadata, citation-friendly ARKs are linked-data-ready and identify anything digital, physical, or abstract. In 2018, multiple organizations partnered to form the ARK Alliance in order to sustain the ARK infrastructure and guide its future. {% endcolumn %} {% endcolumns %} *** {% columns %} {% column width="25%" %} 16 April 2024 {% endcolumn %} {% column width="75%" %} [Making the Business Case for Open Access: How the Royal Albert Memorial Museum adopted an open access strategy for digital collections with the GLAM-E Lab](https://doi.org/10.23636/rq8f-kp14). Dr Andrea Wallace, Associate Professor of Law & Technology & Director of the GLAM-E Lab at the University of Exeter| Dr Francesca Farmer, Research Fellow, GLAM-E Lab & Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM)| Julien Parsons, Collections & Content Manager, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM). At the start of 2024, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) announced a new Open Access Strategy: for the first time, RAMM released digital surrogates of public domain works using the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Like any major strategic change, RAMM’s move to open access required time, careful planning, and collective effort to see it through. It was also supported by the GLAM-E Lab, an AHRC funded project. This talk reflects on the process while sharing the lessons learned from RAMM’s journey. It sets out the research-led approach taken by RAMM and GLAM-E Lab to make the business case for open access, starting with a small set of 63 CC0 images published to Wikimedia Commons. It also addresses the recent Court of Appeal decision in THJ v Sheridan, what it means for copyright licensing services and how the cultural sector can respond by embracing open access. {% endcolumn %} {% endcolumns %} *** {% columns %} {% column width="25%" %} 5 March 2024 {% endcolumn %} {% column width="75%" %} [Available, Accessible & Open](https://doi.org/10.23636/5jrz-4350). Josie Fraser, Head of Digital Policy at the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Josie discusses how the Heritage Fund’s open licencing policy works alongside it’s other requirements to assure its digital grant making delivers public value and supports heritage preservation. The talk also looks at responding to ethical issues relating to open access policies, and the resources produced by Heritage Fund projects to support open licensing. [Improving the discoverability of practice research processes, outputs, and data](https://doi.org/10.23636/k3rv-pg61). Dr. Holly Ranger, Research Data Management Officer at the University of Westminster. Holly presents the forms of research activities and non-traditional outputs in GLAM organisations in the context of practice research. {% endcolumn %} {% endcolumns %} --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://openscholarship.gitbook.io/chosn/webinars.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. 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