The nonprofit Open Heritage Foundation provides a platform for preserving and creating visibility and accessibility to underrepresented cultural heritage on the internet. We collaborate with communities, cultural organisations and knowledge institutes, advocating for the open movement with inclusive initiatives, campaigns and programmes.
We offer multidisciplinary conduits for the exchange of expertise and experience between communities and institutions, encouraging debate and reflection on the open movement and its impact on communities and our daily life.
We bring together thousands of people around the globe through online international contests of photography and article writing on open-source platforms. Our campaigns empower communities to bring their culture to life on the internet in open access, free for anyone to use and download.
We locate, digitise and transcribe heritage works and make them available to the public under open and free licences, addressing heritage that is being lost to the environment and to neglect.
Our programmes raise awareness about open access and free licences, and invite contemporary artists and the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) community into an open dialogue about copyright and open platforms.
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Programmes, events, campaigns, workshops, conferences and outreach activities organised.
70,000+
Pages digitised from old heritage works in Punjabi and English, including works from our GLAM partnerships with cultural institutions.
5,885+
People involved in open knowledge campaigns, documenting culture with around 44,329 images and 18,626 articles in 23 languages.
A worldwide initiative to document and celebrate the folklore, traditions and cultural heritage of different regions through freely accessible media and knowledge.
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A Wikipedia campaign that bridges the gap in documenting the contributions of women and marginalised communities in folklore, so their stories and cultural impact are widely represented.
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