Hi everyone,
Most of you may have already heard about it, Paris
Musées, which regroups 14 heritage sites, has just officially announced
this month the opening of more than 100,000 digitized works on its
collections platform [1], under CC-0 licence.
This is indeed a
significant event for french cultural institutions and open glam because
it is the first Parisian institution, which moreover hosts many
masterpieces, to act such a policy of opening and dissemination of
heritage. The images are offered in High Definition with access via a
dedicated API. This is a real long-term approach, matured over the last
3 years (obviously inspired by international examples including Met art
and Rijksmuseum), because 100,000... Is only a beginning.
In this
project, Wikimedia France has worked and met Paris Musées project
managers during its Glam national meeting [2] in may 2019. We are now
supporting Paris musées, within the framework of a formal partnership,
in the import of images and data to Wikimedia commons and Wikidata and
in training courses on those Wikimedia projects for some of their
cultural agents.
Many of these images and masterpieces, as La Tourgue
in 1835 [3] or Woman with blue eyes, [4] will be obviously used to
illustrate Wikipedia articles. One or more edit-a-thons could be
organised this year. But meanwhile, the first steps are planned for the
first quarter of 2020.
You will find more information, in french for
the moment and i would need some translation help, on the dedicated
article available here:
https://www.wikimedia.fr/2020/01/16/paris-musees-le-choix-determinant-de-lo….
We obviously hope that this case will help disseminate open content
in cultural environments as Musée St Raymond of Toulouse or Archives
nationales de France have used to do for several years.
Available for
more informations and happy to share that great news with you,
Best,
Xavier
XAVIER CAILLEAU
Chargé de mission partenariats et
GLAM
Partnerships and GLAM project manager
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[1]
http://parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim%C3%A9dia_France/Groupes_de_travail/Gr…
[3]
http://parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/maison-de-victor-hugo/oeuvres/la-…
[4]
http://parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-d-art-moderne/oeuvres/femme…
[5]
http://www.wikimedia.fr/
[6]
http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/691082430#map=19/48.86814/2.34683
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https://dons.wikimedia.fr/adhesion/~mon-don/?cid=3
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http://dons.wikimedia.fr