http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march13/szajewski/03szajewski.html
"This case study examines the use of Wikipedia by the Ball State
University Libraries as an opportunity to raise the visibility of
digitized historic sheet music assets made available in the university's
Digital Media Repository. By adding links to specific items in this
collection to relevant, existing Wikipedia articles, Ball State
successfully and efficiently expanded the user base of this collection
in the Digital Media Repository by vastly enhancing the discoverability
of the collection's assets...
"The results of this study show that the addition of links from relevant
Wikipedia articles to individual digitized assets in the Hague Sheet
Music Collection in the Ball State University Digital Media Repository
was an overwhelming success. Despite the fact that only 57 links to 40
assets were added to Wikipedia articles, pageviews for the collection of
149 assets roughly tripled as a result of this effort. The adding of
links at the item level provided a plethora of highly-visible entry
points to this collection's assets, raising awareness of the existence
of these resources to interested Internet users who were previously
unaware of these materials, as is suggested by the collection's use
statistics. The success of this initiative is also remarkable in its
efficiency, generating a large number of new digital patrons while
requiring relatively little time to plan and execute."
Includes an encouraging graph. :-)
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all, and apologies for crossposting -
We've been pushing ahead with the last stages of planning for the
GLAM-Wiki conference these past couple of weeks, and I thought I'd
send around a reminder that it'll be four weeks from now!
The conference will be looking at the work done by Wikimedians working
with cultural organisations over recent years, and highlighting the
prospects for future cooperation. It will involve a series of talks
and reports (Friday), workshops (Saturday), and an
unconference\hackathon run by THATcamp (Sunday).
The conference is hosted by the British Library in London from 12-14
April, and organised by Wikimedia UK with support from Wikimedia
Sweden and Europeana. Speakers include Michael Edson (Smithsonian),
Lizzy Jongma (Rijksmuseum), and Nick Poole (Collections Trust), as
well as twenty or thirty others from inside and outside the Wikimedia
community. More details on WMUK's blog post:
http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/03/glam-wiki-celebrating-culture-and-open…
An outline of the conference is here:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2013 with a detailed schedule
here: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2013/Schedule
Looking forward to seeing some of you there, and please do circulate
this to anyone who might be interested!
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
[I sent this earlier to the Wikimedia "libraries" mailing list,
but I gather that some of the folks on the GLAM list might be
interested in seeing it too. Apologies if you've seen it already.]
Hello Wikipedia and libraries folks,
I work at the University of Pennsylvania library, and
have been working with free online resources like online books
and Wikipedia for some years now. For instance, I've been
maintaining the Online Books Page since 1993, and have
recently added links from author and subject browsing pages
on that site to corresponding Wikipedia articles.
I've recently developed some templates, and a redirection
service, intended to support links from Wikipedia articles
to readers' local libraries, wherever those libraries
might be. If you think these might be useful, I'd be
interested in hearing your thoughts, and would also be happy
to help get people started with them as appropriate.
The service, which I'm calling "Forward to Libraries" or "FTL",
is invoked by templates that can be placed in any Wikipedia
article. The template documentation can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Library_resources_box
(See in particular, the "Library resources About George Washington..."
example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Library_resources_box#Examples
The box shown there has working links.)
As you can see from the example, the "Resources in your library"
links can take a reader to a relevant search in the online catalog or
discovery system of the user's preferred library. (If that preference
isn't known, the user will be asked first which library they want to
search. But users can register a preferred library for future searches.)
Readers can also choose "Resources in other libraries" to check other
libraries and library services. (For instance, a reader who usually
uses a university library might also want to check nearby public
libraries. Or they might want to do a WorldCat search of lots of
libraries.) The service currently knows how to connect to over 70
libraries in the US-- and users can request others to be added-- plus
Worldcat.org and The Online Books Page. (Direct links to the Online
Books Page are also an option, if there are relevant free online books
people can read without leaving their seat or logging into alibrary
proxy.) Libraries outside the US can be added as well, though the
service currently works best with libraries that use the Library
of Congress name and subject headings, or similar ones.
For more details and rationale, see my blog post at
http://everybodyslibraries.com/2013/03/04/from-wikipedia-to-our-libraries/
I'm still fairly new at Wikipedia template-building (and have only
recently created an account at Wikipedia instead of just editing
anonymously). Suggestions and other feedback would be most welcome,
and I'd be glad also to answer any questions folks on this list
might have.
Thanks,
John Mark Ockerbloom
I recently attended "Wiki Academy Kosovo", where over 100 students
were taught to edit Wikipedia and worked in teams to create new
articles (list at
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Kosovo/Wiki_Academy_Koso…>).
Prizes were given, and the winning article was "Archaeology of Kosovo"
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology_of_Kosovo>, which has since
been sub-divided.
It would be great if some of you could translate the winning article
and its sub-pages into your own langues.
Of course, if you want to translate some of the other articles, that
would be appreciated, too.
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
My role as as Wikipedian in Residence at Staffordshire Archives and
Heritage Service comes to an end next week (though I shall continue an
informal relationship with them as a volunteer). As that ends, I shall
become part time Wikipedian In Residence at Queen Street Textile Mill
Museum, Burnley <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Street_Mill> for a
few weeks.
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
I wanted to share this news, since it does not seem to have come up yet. A
new White House memo, in response to an online petition, has created a
policy that will increase the amount of U.S. taxpayer-funded research which
must be made open access. It specifically refers to the NIH policy as a
model. Here is a quote from the petition
response<https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/increasing-public-access-results-…>
authored
by John Holdren, Director of the White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy (i.e., the science czar):
Americans should have easy access to the results of research they help
> support.
>
To that end, I have issued a memorandum today
(.pdf)<http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_a…>to
Federal agencies that directs those with more than $100 million in
> research and development expenditures to develop plans to make the results
> of federally-funded research publically available free of charge within 12
> months after original publication. As you pointed out, the public access
> policy adopted by the National Institutes of Health has been a great
> success. And while this new policy call does not insist that every agency
> copy the NIH approach exactly, it does ensure that similar policies will
> appear across government.
The Huffington Post also covered the story here: <
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/25/aaron-swartz-white-house-taxpayer-…
>.
Dominic
dear list colleagues,
preparing a slot on paid editing in the GLAM-field on the
Wikimania<http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_page>
2013, we are looking for debate willing GLAM activists to join us.
These days the discussion on paid editing has climbed new
peaks<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Die_Grenzen_der_Bezahlung>
among
the German speaking community. Paid editing is probably a topic in your
chapter and especially it is for GLAM activists, isn't it? Let us share our
stories we had with paid editing in the GLAM-field. I assume, we all want
to motivate GLAM staff to contribute to Wikimedia projects not only by
content but by edits too. Naturally they will do it during their working
hours. It is their job they do. Well, many consider paid editing for the
GLAM-cause as acceptable. But we think, it needs a transparent and evident
checklist easy to handle for every GLAM author. Authors need to feel safe
that their effort will not be banned only because the were paid for
editing. And we need to be sure what we want. The edit of a GLAM author is
only a good and valuable edit if it fulfills certain standards. We all
agree. But these standards need to be defined. Let's discuss advocacy
versus the need to be well represented in the Wikipedia. How to mediate the
interests of volunteer authors and paid ones. How to make transparent that
this edit was motivated by still other interests than the noble one of free
knowledge These are some of the thoughts, Dirk Franke and I would like to
debate with You in all its pros and contras at the Wikimania.
Please join our preparation group "GLAMourous edits for a few dollars
more". For more information in English see
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/23/german-community-project-about-paid-ed…"
and feel free to share your thoughts.
About us:
Dirk Franke runs Community Project about the future of paid editing on the
German Wikipedia. For one year he is a kind of a fellow of the German
Wikipedia community and the German Wikimedia chapter.
Barbara Fischer works as curator for cultural partnerships for Wikimedia
Deutschland.
thanks
Barbara Fischer
Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
This is sure to be of interest to many of you:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Adam Waterton" <Adam.Waterton(a)royalacademy.org.uk>
Date: Feb 19, 2013 8:19 AM
Subject: Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition catalogues (1870-1939)
digitised and available via the RA website
To: <MCG(a)jiscmail.ac.uk>
Some of you may be interested in a new resource that has just been added to
the Royal Academy of Arts Collections website.
The Royal Academy Winter loan Exhibition catalogues from their inception in
1870 to 1939 have been digitised in their entirety and are now available to
search and browse online via the Royal Academy Website.
www.racollection.org.uk<http://www.racollection.org.uk/>
>From their inception in 1870 through to the outbreak of the First World War
the format of the RA Winter exhibitions remained fairly constant; generally
consisting of Old Master paintings borrowed from private collections
accompanied by works by recently deceased British artists. From 1920
onwards the exhibitions programme began to evolve and the RA started to
organise major art historical survey exhibitions drawing upon expert
scholarship such as Flemish & Belgian Art 1300-1900 (1927), Italian Art
1200-1900 (1930) and French Art 1200-1900 (1932). In addition, for the
first time, supplementary illustrated catalogues began to be published, in
tandem with the traditional un-illustrated `lists of works`. As well as
including reproductions of c.3000 of the works shown in the exhibitions,
these illustrated catalogues included introductory essays by renowned art
historians such as Sir James G. Mann (1897-1962), Sir Robert Witt
(1872-1952) and Adolfo Venturi (1856-1941). These catalogues are now
available to browse and search online via the Royal Academy website<
http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=tem…
>
Many of the works lent to these exhibitions now reside in major museum and
gallery collections such as Tate, National Gallery of Ireland, Yale Center
for British Art, Wallace Collection, etc. We have included thumbnail images
of many of these works, with embedded hotlinks to take the researcher to
the pages on the owner institutions website where larger images and more
information can be found. We've also digitised a selection of installation
photographs from the RA's Photo Archive which show how the exhibitions were
displayed.
How it works:
Click on the RA Collections<http://www.racollection.org.uk/> landing page (
www.racollection.org.uk<http://www.racollection.org.uk/>)
Browse
On the RA Collections page click on the Exhibition Catalogue<
http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=tem…>
link to view thumbnail images of the title pages of each catalogue. Click
on a thumbnail image to display a large image of the title-page. Use the
Next & Previous buttons to browse through the catalogue. You can also enter
search terms in the Search within the catalogue box to search for artists,
titles and lenders within the catalogue. This will display a list of the
pages on which your search terms were found.
Below the catalogue pages you will also find thumbnail images of some of
the works that were exhibited in the exhibitions. Clicking on a thumbnail
image will take you to a page displaying a larger image and more
information about that work.
Searching
You can search across all the catalogues in two ways:
1: Enter a search term in the quick search box at the top of the RA
Collections homepage. This will search through all the exhibition
catalogues as well as the RA's own collections of works of art, historic
books and archives.
2: Click on the Search Exhibition Catalogues<
http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=tem…>
option on the RA Collections homepage.
>From here you can search by exhibition title, exhibition date, or carry out
a free-text search of the entire contents of the catalogues for the names
of artists, lenders or titles of works.
We are very excited to be able to make this resource available
electronically to the international research community via the web. This
project was made possible with funding from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation,
to whom we are extremely grateful.
Any feedback and comments that you have about the resource will be
gratefully received and will help us to refine and improve it in future.
Regards,
Adam
Adam Waterton
Head of Library Services
Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London
W1V 0DS
T: 020 7300 5740 | F: 020 7300 5765 | E: adam.waterton(a)royalacademy.org.uk
<mailto:adam.waterton@royalacademy.org.uk>
Royal Academy Library and Archive
www.royalacademy.org.uk/collectionsandlibrary<
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/collectionsandlibrary>
The Royal Academy of Arts Collection Online
www.racollection.org.uk<http://www.racollection.org.uk/>
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Number 1125383 and is also registered as a company limited by guarantee in
England and Wales under Company Number 6298947. Registered office:
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Hello
all!
As you might have already heard, the very first Wiki Loves Public Art (WLPA)
photo contest will take place in May 2013. This is a contest that is inspired
by the success of the Wiki Loves Monuments, but as the name suggests the focus
is on public art, either outdoors or in museums (see more
about how museums can be involved here). The basic structure of the
contest is set up and we are looking for local Wikimedia chapters to organize the contest in
their country, or in a region, a city or perhaps just in a few museums as a pilot. Thus far teams are working to organize the contest in Sweden, Austria and
Barcelona but the more the merrier, so if you think that this could be
something for your chapter, please let us know as soon as possible!
To make participation to the photo
contest easier, the international organizing team can help you for example with setting up the lists of artworks on
Wikipedia and to sort through the basic rules of the contest. In addition, in
case you cannot find your own sponsors, we will be able to provide a prize for
the winning picture of your local contest (around 100-150 euros, depending on
the number of countries/regions participating).
To find out more see the international
WLPA website as well as the WLPA page on Wikimedia Commons. On the website there is also a neat instruction and all the files needed to set up your own version of the website in your language.
You
are also more than welcome to email the international coordinator or the WLPA email list for any questions or
comments as well as if you would like to contribute or participate in the
contest!
Please forward this to anyone you think could be interested!
Cheers,
John
- - - -
John Andersson
Wikimedia Sweden
Project Leader Europeana Awareness
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se
Skype: johnandersson86
Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana
Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/English for more information about our
project!
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