2008/6/10 <david.monniaux(a)free.fr>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
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