Santa Barbara Statement on Collections as Data --- Always Already Computational: Collections as Data | Zenodo

"What are “collections as data”? Who are they for? Why are they needed? What values guide their development? The Santa Barbara Statement on Collections as Data poses these questions and suggests a set of principles for thinking through them, as part of a community effort to empower cultural heritage institutions to think of collections as data and consequently to explore what might be possible if cultural heritage seen in this light was more readily open to computation....

While the specifics of how to develop and provide access to collections as data will vary, any digital material can potentially be made available as data that are amenable to computational use. Use and reuse is encouraged by openly licensed data in non‑proprietary formats made accessible via a range of access mechanisms that are designed to meet specific community needs. 

Ethical concerns are integral to collections as data. Collections as data should make a commitment to openness...

Collections as Data should be made openly accessible by default, except in cases where ethical or legal obligations preclude it. Terms of use for collections as data must be made explicit and should align with community‑based practices such as RightsStatements.org and standard licenses such as Creative Commons, Open Data Commons, and Traditional Knowledge licenses."