-- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation > Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:27:37 +0200 > From: Shani shani.even@gmail.com > > Hi, Sumana. > > Thanks for sharing this case study! With your permission, I'd like to > forward it to the Cultural Partners mailing list. > > Cheers, > Shani. > > > > * Project Ben-Yehuda http://www.benyehuda.org > * GLAM-Wiki Projects in > Israelhttp://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%A7:%D7%92%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%9D > > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah@wikimedia.org >> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> GLAM mailing list >> GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam >> >