Shani,
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:27:37 +0200
> From: Shani <shani.even(a)gmail.com>
>
> Hi, Sumana.
>
> Thanks for sharing this case study! With your permission, I'd like to
> forward it to the Cultural Partners mailing list.
>
> Cheers,
> Shani.
>
>
>
> * Project Ben-Yehuda <http://www.benyehuda.org>
> * GLAM-Wiki Projects in
>
Israel<http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%A7:%D7%92%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%9…
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org
>> wrote:
>
>>
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march13/szajewski/03szajewski.html
>>
>> "This case study examines the use of Wikipedia by the Ball State
>> University Libraries as an opportunity to raise the visibility of
>> digitized historic sheet music assets made available in the university's
>> Digital Media Repository. By adding links to specific items in this
>> collection to relevant, existing Wikipedia articles, Ball State
>> successfully and efficiently expanded the user base of this collection
>> in the Digital Media Repository by vastly enhancing the discoverability
>> of the collection's assets...
>>
>> "The results of this study show that the addition of links from relevant
>> Wikipedia articles to individual digitized assets in the Hague Sheet
>> Music Collection in the Ball State University Digital Media Repository
>> was an overwhelming success. Despite the fact that only 57 links to 40
>> assets were added to Wikipedia articles, pageviews for the collection of
>> 149 assets roughly tripled as a result of this effort. The adding of
>> links at the item level provided a plethora of highly-visible entry
>> points to this collection's assets, raising awareness of the existence
>> of these resources to interested Internet users who were previously
>> unaware of these materials, as is suggested by the collection's use
>> statistics. The success of this initiative is also remarkable in its
>> efficiency, generating a large number of new digital patrons while
>> requiring relatively little time to plan and execute."
>>
>> Includes an encouraging graph. :-)
>> --
>> Sumana Harihareswara
>> Engineering Community Manager
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
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