Europeana Space: Best practice network: spaces of possibility for the creative reuse of digital cultural content (ESpace): Open and Hybrid Publishing Pilot
Funder
European Commission
Europeana Space grant
Project team
Professor Jonathan Shaw, Professor Gary Hall
Partners
Goldsmiths, University of London
Collaborators
Professor Joanna Zylinska, Goldsmiths, University of London; Professor Sarah Whatley, Coventry University
Duration of project
01/01/2014 - 31/12/2017
Project overview
The open and hybrid publishing pilot, entitled Photomediations, was a strand of the Europeana Space project commissioned by the EUs FP7. Photomediations sought to harness the image archive (with a particular focus on photography) contained in the Europeana portal in ways that put open and hybrid publishing into practice. Europeana is an EU web portal that contains millions of items from a range of Europe’s leading galleries, libraries, archives and museums, including books and manuscripts, photos and paintings, television and film, sculpture and crafts, diaries and maps, and sheet music and recordings.
Photomediations was a collaboration between Coventry University and Goldsmiths, University of London and responded to the Open and Hybrid Publishing requirements of Europeana Space[1].
Project objectives
The aim was to identify creative ways to make use of the materials available on the Europeana portal so that they may be reused and remixed, driving forward the need to explore how open and hybrid publishing could be applied to the practice of image remixing, exhibitions and exhibition catalogues through a large archive of images.
This aim was achieved through the following objectives:
- Inviting participation in the reuse and remixing of content in the Europeana portal, including – in the ethos of participatory methods – the skilling up of the public to do so.
- Exhibiting these remixed photographic works in ways that build on the principles of open and hybrid publishing by harnessing the concept of ‘flatpack’.
- Sharing knowledge through a further experiment in open publishing, in the form of a book.
[1] For more information see the aims and objectives for this element.
