Hi all – apologies for cross posting.

 

I was wondering if I could ask any GLAMs who have uploaded content to Commons, or Wikimedians who have worked with GLAMs to upload content to Commons, if they had any details they could share regarding the forms of use that different types of content receive?

 

For context: at the National Library of Scotland, questions have been raised about the resolution of the images we’ve released thus far, and whether such a ‘large’ size is necessary (currently 2500px images). We hope to prove that this resolution (and perhaps higher) is not only justified but required for the types of usage that the content is likely to meet with on Commons – research, online dissemination, etc – and would like to have some use studies that we can provide to support this. Different examples for different types of content (i.e. maps vs images vs texts) would also be useful.

 

Side note: this is information that I think might prove of interest to other GLAM organisations debating the possibility of releasing content to Commons or other Wikimedia projects. It might be worthwhile to generate some sort of infosheet or booklet etc. based off of any information that could be gathered, which could then be distributed to GLAMs working with Wikimedia or considering a collaboration. If you could include any details that would therefore be appreciated. If you’d prefer not to swamp the lists, you could leave a note on my talk page -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:ACrockford

 

Thanks!

Ally

 

 

Ally Crockford

Wikimedian-In-Residence

National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1EW
Scotland, UK

 

e: a.crockford@nls.uk

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