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Communicating Use and Reuse in the Digital Collection Interface

Communicating Use and Reuse in the Digital Collection Interface

In Communicating Use and Reuse in the Digital Collection Interface, Kelly Fitzpatrick explores how institutions are identifying open access content in digital collections:

"How we display information can often tell us something about it. For GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museum) institutions, the collection interface can be a medium for communication.

In developing open access policies which define the use and reuse of collection content, user interface decisions can serve as a means of communicating these terms to the user.

In navigating digital collections, a visual indicator can be the tether between a user and the terms which guide how they can use collections content — in this review of current practice, these visual indicators will be referred to as open content identifiers."

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