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On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Christopher Leeder <cleeder@umich.edu> wrote:

More evidence of museums getting on board with Wikipedia!

The Cooper Hewitt Design Museum has released a new online collections database that includes auto-generated Wikipedia links for every object!

The site itself is very cool:

http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/

Here's an example of the generated link:

If you would like to cite this object in a Wikipedia article please use the following template:

<ref name=CH>{{cite web |url=http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18328843/ |title=Printing Block, 1931-71-23, 18th century |author=Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum |accessdate=19 December 2012 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution}}</ref>

http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18328843/

Also, their code is available on Github and the developers have a blog: http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/

Nice to see the Smithsonian leading the way!

Chris Leeder
School of Information
University of Michigan

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