Wikipedia Discordances & the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum - GLAM

8 Jan 2013

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/