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National Archives & Spaarnestad Photo join Wikipedia!

06 September 2010 On 13 September 2010 the Nationaal Archief and Spaarnestad Photo will donate more than 1,000 photos to Wikimedia Netherlands, part of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the largest online encyclopaedia in the world and is, moreover, entirely written and maintained by users. There is a substantial demand for images to illustrate the encyclopaedia entries, but in many cases the photographic material is not available legally.



National Archive participates in fotografen.nl

28 January 2010 At the beginning of January the website fotografen.nl was launched. The website was built on the artist database RKD-Artists and should develop into the most extensive database for photographers of the Netherlands.

Stakeholder workshop Commercial versus Non-Commercial in Copyright

12 January 2009 The European Greenbook ‘Copyright in the Knowledge Economy’ (‘Europese Groenboek 'Auteursrecht in de Kenniseconomie') has set Dutch museums and archives in motion. In October representatives of Dutch heritage foundations gathered in an open brainstorm for a joint reaction to the European thought development concerning copyright.