Opportunities for apps developers, designers and other digital innovators will be boosted today as the digital portal Europeana opens up its dataset of over 20 million cultural objects for free re-use. This release, also including around 500'000 records from the European Film Gateway portal, is by far the largest one-time dedication of cultural data to the public domain using CC0. It sets an important new international precedent, a decisive move away from the world of closed and controlled data.
Read Europeana's official press release