Hi,
Following from a discussion with the French Ministry of Culture (in charge of national museums, among other things), I'd like to know whether some museums, French or otherwise, officially put content onto Wikipedia or Commons.
I'd also like to know about the various upload schemes for artwork, including uploading of content that we deem PD under Corel v Bridgeman Art Library.
Cheers DM
2008/6/10 david.monniaux@free.fr:
Hi,
Following from a discussion with the French Ministry of Culture (in charge of national museums, among other things), I'd like to know whether some museums, French or otherwise, officially put content onto Wikipedia or Commons.
Well we always started at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:10%2C000_paintings_from_Directmedia (thanks to the Germans)
Pharos recently alerted me to the fact that an employee of Museum Victoria has contributed some text and images to Commons & Wikipedia. I emailed him and I'm planning to meet them sometime and talk about how they're going. (I don't know that that is super "official" as such though)
More commonly, library/museum material is making its way onto Wikimedia Commons via Flickr's "The Commons" project http://flickr.com/commons. Participating institutions so far are the Library of Congress, Powerhouse Museum (Sydney, Australia) and Brooklyn Museum.
I imagine doing a deal with Flickr is much more straightforward than the messy Wikimedia DIY approach, so I can't really blame them!
Commoners are very interested in working with museums and all kinds of institutions - where they actually want to cooperate, we could get an amazing amount done. See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:WikiProject_Museums (note half the participants are French, too)
I'd also like to know about the various upload schemes for artwork, including uploading of content >that we deem PD under Corel v Bridgeman Art Library.
Have you seen this page? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:ART
cheers Brianna