Re: [GLAM] Wikipedia Discordances & the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

My apologies if this has been discussed before. I just happened to see Seb Chan speak at the Digital Humanities Winter Institute talk about work they are doing at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum to figure out how best to present their collections on the Web. They are doing a really nice job of linking out to Wikipedia at a granular level in their item level displays. For example the page for Winslow Homer [1] which links out to Wikipedia, Google's Freebase, Getty, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. One really neat thing they are doing is something they call "discordances" which highlight entities (people, companies, etc) related to items in their collection that *do not* have Wikipedia articles, or it is unclear which article should be related [2]. The idea being that these discordances could be of use to people at Wikipedia editathons who are looking for notable topics to write about. Seb has written a bit about this work [3]. I was wondering if this might be something the GLAM community could do, to share these discordances and make them known to the Wikipedia editing community at large. Or maybe this is something we are doing already, and I just don't know about it? I really like having a memorable name for these lists I guess. If you have a list like this would you be willing to share it here, on the discussion list? //Ed [1] http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18041949/ [2] http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/not-from/wikipedia/ [3] http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/2012/discordances-big-to-do-list/ _______________________________________________ GLAM mailing list GLAM(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam