On 03/18/2013 07:09 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
Sumana Harihareswara cited:
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march13/szajewski/03szajewski.html
"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.
Do we know to what degree archives and libraries succeed to actually benefit from an increased web audience? I'm trying to understand Swedish archives and libraries. Some of them measure web traffic, but none seems to care if the numbers are large or small. It's not like a revenue stream to them.
Lars, I shall defer to the GLAM experts, but take a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Pageviews/GLAM . "To stimulate GLAMs to upload content to Wikimedia Commons, it is necessary to be able to communicate how many times these media files are being presented to users of Wikimedia projects. Being able to communicate these numbers helps policymakers to integrate Wikipedia into their communications policy and helps them justify contributing time and knowledge to Wikimedia projects."