This is a summary report describing a use case for infrastructures that host image data for the cultural heritage sector. WorldFAIR Project Work Package 13 (Cultural Heritage) was tasked with providing a pathway to enabling wider adoption of image-sharing policies and practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (‘GLAM’ organisations) which align with the FAIR principles for research data, and are easily exchanged with commonly-used technologies and standards for sharing data in other domains of practice represented in the WorldFAIR Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF).
This report builds on the findings of a mapping exercise in Deliverable 13.1, ‘Cultural Heritage Mapping Report: Practices and policies supporting cultural heritage image sharing platforms’ and outlines the process undertaken by the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) to respond to the general recommendations developed by an international working group in Deliverable 13.2, ‘Cultural Heritage Image Sharing Recommendations Report’, both through technical implementation and the development of best practice guidance for DRI members and the broader user community served by the repository.
Deliverable 13.3 describes the implementation plan and current state of activities, some of which will still be in progress at the time of publication. This is primarily a record of decisions made towards realising the five key recommendations. Further resources which document the outcomes of these activities will be made available in the DRI repository at the close of the WorldFAIR project.
The full report is available on Zenodo.
