Getting Started with Open Digital Collections will provide an overview of how to find and use open access content in museum digital collections.

This session will review:

1. Where to find open digital collections
2. How to identify open access content
3. How to use open collections content (this segment will focus on how to navigate the terms of use that impact how you can use content).

Session Type: Teach

Session Keywords: Digital Collections, GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums), Open Access, Public Domain, Creative Commons, Digitization, Museums.

Background Image: Still Life: Flowers and Fruit by Severin Roesen, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Domain.

“Intro to TagTeam” will review the basics of TagTeam, a research tool and tagging platform developed by the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP) at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

TagTeam is a platform that supports the social tagging and aggregation of online resources, with the flexibility to manage your tag vocabulary from a folksonomy to an ontology.

This session will provide the background necessary to start using TagTeam by reviewing:

• TagTeam’s basic features and functions
• How to start a hub on TagTeam
• How to start tagging with TagTeam

Session Type: Teach

Session Keywords: Research Tools, Social Tagging, Open Source Software, Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies, Folksonomies and Ontologies.