Wikimedia & MuseumsWhy we need them and what we can do about it
Liam Wyatt
• Treasure houses
• Public funding for public good
• Custodians of our cultural heritage
• 90% not on display
• (primary) research institutes
• IRL volunteer community
• Visitors and groups
• Experts
GLAM institutions:
• Curation• Interpretation• Preservation/Restoration• Valuation• Museology• Librarianship• Metadata• Archiving• Provenance• Art history• ...
Dedicated to best-practice in:
“Explore the past, Document the present,
Engage the public.”
Build a Relationship
(i.e. don’t try and steal their stuff)
“content liberation”
• Ring them up - ask for the “outreach” or “education” person (or “web-strategy”).
• Someone in the organisation is already “doing” social/web2/O.A.
• Visit, have a chat. • No camera, no proposals. • Meet for introductions -
no obligation. • Prepare. What do they care
about? What is their presence on Wikimedia projects.
Initial contact
Most of the work is not visible
Build a
relationship
(i.e. this should be beneficial in both directions, not just getting ‘photos of things’)
su!ainable
• Run an event:• Backstage Pass• Wiki Loves Art• Featured Article• Host a Local Meetup• Write in their Newsletter
• Learn their perspective:• ‘Access rights’ not just
copyrights• Business & funding model• Innovations they’ve tried
You might be pleasantly surprised
(n.b. “statement of significance” = notability)
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=7177&img=131713
How can we work together to build sustainable relationships that are mutually beneficial?
http://glam.wikimedia.org.au
Recommendations
• Technology
• Law
• Education
• Business
to GLAM sector
to Wikimedia community
to government
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_Recommendations
Did you know?There’s a 2 year queue to join:
Theme 1: Metadata
• to know what we’re using of theirs, where, and statistics of its usage
• to know when we’ve changed/added improved their content and to export those changes back
• us to enable machine readable metadata
• us to use their metadata consistently and comprehensively
They want:
Theme 2: The real thing
• not try and make GLAMs redundant
• encourage people to get a personal experience rather than just online
• find ways for recognition of expert input
• highlight our quality assessments and encourage external peer review
They want us to:
Theme 3: Information
• documentation about free licensing
• someone to contact
• to know how to do more things with no extra money or time
• to learn how to edit and for it to be easier
• to see how NPOV is compatible with interpretive debate
They want:
Theme 4: Moral rights
• us to take greater care in dealing with moral rights of authors - not just copyright
• Indigenous cultural rights: not all culture was meant to be free
They want:
Credits
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:School_children_in_Louvre.jpg Hu Toya, cc-by-sa
• http://punditkitchen.com/2008/04/04/political-pictures-navy-liberate-shit/
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CandlestickTelephoneGal.jpg, PD
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bucephala-albeola-010.jpg MdF, cc-by-sa
• http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/02/working-with-wikipedia-backstage-pass-at-the-powerhouse-museum/ Paula Bray, cc-by-sa
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glam_wiki_1.jpg David Howe, cc-by-sa
• http://picasaweb.google.com/mathias.schindler/Australien#5368793653845814850 Mathias Schindler, cc-by-nc-nd