Hello all,
About a year and a half ago I was incredibly inspired by a talk that Koven Smith, Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, gave at Ignite Smithsonian. His concept has evolved from "What's the point of the museum website?" to "the Kinetic museum," and essentially validates our work with GLAM-Wiki by saying what we always say, "Use external platforms, go where the people are. [and as one example...] Use Wikipedia."
This year, at MuseumNext Barcelona in May, he was even bolder in his urging museums to adopt external platforms, and he has an entire portion of his talk in which he very clearly articulates to museum professionals why they are pretty much crazy to be re-writing the same content on their collections databases over and over, when really they should just be using Wikipedia.
The video is here: http://vimeo.com/47589803
I'll note that he's a fast-talking-American, so it may be tough for translations. But here is a transcript of the portion about Wikipedia. It's truly great content for your "why Wikipedia?" questions of GLAM professionals. AND it's coming from a GLAM professional (not us), which is what's so refreshing. Be sure to attribute Koven if you use any of this! (And let me know if you do; he'll be glad to hear it : ).
Building on this concept of an ongoing evolutionary construction rather
than growing your own content is looking at communications.
We need to recognize that museums are part of a content ecosystem now
rather than the totality of that ecosystem. Developing information resources that compete with Wikipedia is insane. Developing information resources that compete with other museums is insane-r. There’s no reason for us to own content that is not unique to us; all it does is weigh us down and prevent us from moving faster.
So instead of positioning ourselves as an alternative resource to those
information resources that already exist we have to learn how to use them to our advantage. I can’t imagine that if museums didn’t already exist, that we would initiate them by saying, “we’re going to be a competing information resource to Wikipedia, but we’ll be *way* better because we’ve got the power of scholarship behind us.” That ship has sailed. Wikipedia is more important as an information resource than any other single institution. We need to accept that and figure out how to work with it.
Wikipedia and resources like it are going to adapt to cultural shifts and
interpretation way faster than you are and without you having to expend those resources. So instead of developing a competing artist biography, just use Wikipedia’s. That way when an artist dies or changes their working location, it’s no longer a “somebody has to change that information in the object record” problem. It’s already been done for you by the Wikipedia community. And now you don’t have to change anything.
This is one of the reasons why I like the Brooklyn Museum’s WikiLink
project, recognizing that as a fact. It’s a resource that’s out there, it allows us to get in very deep with content, without actually having to own all of that process from end to end.
thanks for sharing Lori, I will try to have a German translation ready soon. Is there an option to have the video subtitled?
best regards Barbara Fischer Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
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.
2012/8/21 Lori Phillips lori.byrd.phillips@gmail.com
Hello all,
About a year and a half ago I was incredibly inspired by a talk that Koven Smith, Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, gave at Ignite Smithsonian. His concept has evolved from "What's the point of the museum website?" to "the Kinetic museum," and essentially validates our work with GLAM-Wiki by saying what we always say, "Use external platforms, go where the people are. [and as one example...] Use Wikipedia."
This year, at MuseumNext Barcelona in May, he was even bolder in his urging museums to adopt external platforms, and he has an entire portion of his talk in which he very clearly articulates to museum professionals why they are pretty much crazy to be re-writing the same content on their collections databases over and over, when really they should just be using Wikipedia.
The video is here: http://vimeo.com/47589803
I'll note that he's a fast-talking-American, so it may be tough for translations. But here is a transcript of the portion about Wikipedia. It's truly great content for your "why Wikipedia?" questions of GLAM professionals. AND it's coming from a GLAM professional (not us), which is what's so refreshing. Be sure to attribute Koven if you use any of this! (And let me know if you do; he'll be glad to hear it : ).
Building on this concept of an ongoing evolutionary construction rather
than growing your own content is looking at communications.
We need to recognize that museums are part of a content ecosystem now
rather than the totality of that ecosystem. Developing information resources that compete with Wikipedia is insane. Developing information resources that compete with other museums is insane-r. There’s no reason for us to own content that is not unique to us; all it does is weigh us down and prevent us from moving faster.
So instead of positioning ourselves as an alternative resource to those
information resources that already exist we have to learn how to use them to our advantage. I can’t imagine that if museums didn’t already exist, that we would initiate them by saying, “we’re going to be a competing information resource to Wikipedia, but we’ll be *way* better because we’ve got the power of scholarship behind us.” That ship has sailed. Wikipedia is more important as an information resource than any other single institution. We need to accept that and figure out how to work with it.
Wikipedia and resources like it are going to adapt to cultural shifts
and interpretation way faster than you are and without you having to expend those resources. So instead of developing a competing artist biography, just use Wikipedia’s. That way when an artist dies or changes their working location, it’s no longer a “somebody has to change that information in the object record” problem. It’s already been done for you by the Wikipedia community. And now you don’t have to change anything.
This is one of the reasons why I like the Brooklyn Museum’s WikiLink
project, recognizing that as a fact. It’s a resource that’s out there, it allows us to get in very deep with content, without actually having to own all of that process from end to end.
-- Lori Phillips Digital Marketing Content Coordinator The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/
GLAM mailing list GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
This is great! Thanks for sharing, Lori. We'll definitely use it and will let you know. :-)
Best, Shani. On Aug 21, 2012 2:48 AM, "Lori Phillips" lori.byrd.phillips@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
About a year and a half ago I was incredibly inspired by a talk that Koven Smith, Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, gave at Ignite Smithsonian. His concept has evolved from "What's the point of the museum website?" to "the Kinetic museum," and essentially validates our work with GLAM-Wiki by saying what we always say, "Use external platforms, go where the people are. [and as one example...] Use Wikipedia."
This year, at MuseumNext Barcelona in May, he was even bolder in his urging museums to adopt external platforms, and he has an entire portion of his talk in which he very clearly articulates to museum professionals why they are pretty much crazy to be re-writing the same content on their collections databases over and over, when really they should just be using Wikipedia.
The video is here: http://vimeo.com/47589803
I'll note that he's a fast-talking-American, so it may be tough for translations. But here is a transcript of the portion about Wikipedia. It's truly great content for your "why Wikipedia?" questions of GLAM professionals. AND it's coming from a GLAM professional (not us), which is what's so refreshing. Be sure to attribute Koven if you use any of this! (And let me know if you do; he'll be glad to hear it : ).
Building on this concept of an ongoing evolutionary construction rather
than growing your own content is looking at communications.
We need to recognize that museums are part of a content ecosystem now
rather than the totality of that ecosystem. Developing information resources that compete with Wikipedia is insane. Developing information resources that compete with other museums is insane-r. There’s no reason for us to own content that is not unique to us; all it does is weigh us down and prevent us from moving faster.
So instead of positioning ourselves as an alternative resource to those
information resources that already exist we have to learn how to use them to our advantage. I can’t imagine that if museums didn’t already exist, that we would initiate them by saying, “we’re going to be a competing information resource to Wikipedia, but we’ll be *way* better because we’ve got the power of scholarship behind us.” That ship has sailed. Wikipedia is more important as an information resource than any other single institution. We need to accept that and figure out how to work with it.
Wikipedia and resources like it are going to adapt to cultural shifts
and interpretation way faster than you are and without you having to expend those resources. So instead of developing a competing artist biography, just use Wikipedia’s. That way when an artist dies or changes their working location, it’s no longer a “somebody has to change that information in the object record” problem. It’s already been done for you by the Wikipedia community. And now you don’t have to change anything.
This is one of the reasons why I like the Brooklyn Museum’s WikiLink
project, recognizing that as a fact. It’s a resource that’s out there, it allows us to get in very deep with content, without actually having to own all of that process from end to end.
-- Lori Phillips Digital Marketing Content Coordinator The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/
GLAM mailing list GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
Hi Lori, a Wikipedian told me, that the video is not under free license. If that is correct, it might be difficult to integrate into our media channels. Could You please confirm, that the video is meeting our request for CC BY SA licence?
Thanks again Barbara Fischer Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
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.
2012/8/21 Lori Phillips lori.byrd.phillips@gmail.com
Hello all,
About a year and a half ago I was incredibly inspired by a talk that Koven Smith, Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, gave at Ignite Smithsonian. His concept has evolved from "What's the point of the museum website?" to "the Kinetic museum," and essentially validates our work with GLAM-Wiki by saying what we always say, "Use external platforms, go where the people are. [and as one example...] Use Wikipedia."
This year, at MuseumNext Barcelona in May, he was even bolder in his urging museums to adopt external platforms, and he has an entire portion of his talk in which he very clearly articulates to museum professionals why they are pretty much crazy to be re-writing the same content on their collections databases over and over, when really they should just be using Wikipedia.
The video is here: http://vimeo.com/47589803
I'll note that he's a fast-talking-American, so it may be tough for translations. But here is a transcript of the portion about Wikipedia. It's truly great content for your "why Wikipedia?" questions of GLAM professionals. AND it's coming from a GLAM professional (not us), which is what's so refreshing. Be sure to attribute Koven if you use any of this! (And let me know if you do; he'll be glad to hear it : ).
Building on this concept of an ongoing evolutionary construction rather
than growing your own content is looking at communications.
We need to recognize that museums are part of a content ecosystem now
rather than the totality of that ecosystem. Developing information resources that compete with Wikipedia is insane. Developing information resources that compete with other museums is insane-r. There’s no reason for us to own content that is not unique to us; all it does is weigh us down and prevent us from moving faster.
So instead of positioning ourselves as an alternative resource to those
information resources that already exist we have to learn how to use them to our advantage. I can’t imagine that if museums didn’t already exist, that we would initiate them by saying, “we’re going to be a competing information resource to Wikipedia, but we’ll be *way* better because we’ve got the power of scholarship behind us.” That ship has sailed. Wikipedia is more important as an information resource than any other single institution. We need to accept that and figure out how to work with it.
Wikipedia and resources like it are going to adapt to cultural shifts
and interpretation way faster than you are and without you having to expend those resources. So instead of developing a competing artist biography, just use Wikipedia’s. That way when an artist dies or changes their working location, it’s no longer a “somebody has to change that information in the object record” problem. It’s already been done for you by the Wikipedia community. And now you don’t have to change anything.
This is one of the reasons why I like the Brooklyn Museum’s WikiLink
project, recognizing that as a fact. It’s a resource that’s out there, it allows us to get in very deep with content, without actually having to own all of that process from end to end.
-- Lori Phillips Digital Marketing Content Coordinator The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/
GLAM mailing list GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
No, I believe you're correct. It is not. We had the same problem with museumnext's Flickr photos. I'll ask the organizer about it as soon as I can, but I'm away from my desk the next 2 days. Maarten D. and Àlex also have access to Jim's email, if needed. On Aug 21, 2012 10:27 AM, "Barbara Fischer" barbara.fischer@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hi Lori, a Wikipedian told me, that the video is not under free license. If that is correct, it might be difficult to integrate into our media channels. Could You please confirm, that the video is meeting our request for CC BY SA licence?
Thanks again Barbara Fischer Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
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.
2012/8/21 Lori Phillips lori.byrd.phillips@gmail.com
Hello all,
About a year and a half ago I was incredibly inspired by a talk that Koven Smith, Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, gave at Ignite Smithsonian. His concept has evolved from "What's the point of the museum website?" to "the Kinetic museum," and essentially validates our work with GLAM-Wiki by saying what we always say, "Use external platforms, go where the people are. [and as one example...] Use Wikipedia."
This year, at MuseumNext Barcelona in May, he was even bolder in his urging museums to adopt external platforms, and he has an entire portion of his talk in which he very clearly articulates to museum professionals why they are pretty much crazy to be re-writing the same content on their collections databases over and over, when really they should just be using Wikipedia.
The video is here: http://vimeo.com/47589803
I'll note that he's a fast-talking-American, so it may be tough for translations. But here is a transcript of the portion about Wikipedia. It's truly great content for your "why Wikipedia?" questions of GLAM professionals. AND it's coming from a GLAM professional (not us), which is what's so refreshing. Be sure to attribute Koven if you use any of this! (And let me know if you do; he'll be glad to hear it : ).
Building on this concept of an ongoing evolutionary construction rather
than growing your own content is looking at communications.
We need to recognize that museums are part of a content ecosystem now
rather than the totality of that ecosystem. Developing information resources that compete with Wikipedia is insane. Developing information resources that compete with other museums is insane-r. There’s no reason for us to own content that is not unique to us; all it does is weigh us down and prevent us from moving faster.
So instead of positioning ourselves as an alternative resource to those
information resources that already exist we have to learn how to use them to our advantage. I can’t imagine that if museums didn’t already exist, that we would initiate them by saying, “we’re going to be a competing information resource to Wikipedia, but we’ll be *way* better because we’ve got the power of scholarship behind us.” That ship has sailed. Wikipedia is more important as an information resource than any other single institution. We need to accept that and figure out how to work with it.
Wikipedia and resources like it are going to adapt to cultural shifts
and interpretation way faster than you are and without you having to expend those resources. So instead of developing a competing artist biography, just use Wikipedia’s. That way when an artist dies or changes their working location, it’s no longer a “somebody has to change that information in the object record” problem. It’s already been done for you by the Wikipedia community. And now you don’t have to change anything.
This is one of the reasons why I like the Brooklyn Museum’s WikiLink
project, recognizing that as a fact. It’s a resource that’s out there, it allows us to get in very deep with content, without actually having to own all of that process from end to end.
-- Lori Phillips Digital Marketing Content Coordinator The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/
GLAM mailing list GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
GLAM mailing list GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
I reckon, no problem if that's done in three days.[?]
have some nice days away from your desk.
Barbara Fischer Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
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.
2012/8/21 Lori Phillips lori.byrd.phillips@gmail.com
No, I believe you're correct. It is not. We had the same problem with museumnext's Flickr photos. I'll ask the organizer about it as soon as I can, but I'm away from my desk the next 2 days. Maarten D. and Àlex also have access to Jim's email, if needed. On Aug 21, 2012 10:27 AM, "Barbara Fischer" barbara.fischer@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hi Lori, a Wikipedian told me, that the video is not under free license. If that is correct, it might be difficult to integrate into our media channels. Could You please confirm, that the video is meeting our request for CC BY SA licence?
Thanks again Barbara Fischer Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
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.
2012/8/21 Lori Phillips lori.byrd.phillips@gmail.com
Hello all,
About a year and a half ago I was incredibly inspired by a talk that Koven Smith, Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, gave at Ignite Smithsonian. His concept has evolved from "What's the point of the museum website?" to "the Kinetic museum," and essentially validates our work with GLAM-Wiki by saying what we always say, "Use external platforms, go where the people are. [and as one example...] Use Wikipedia."
This year, at MuseumNext Barcelona in May, he was even bolder in his urging museums to adopt external platforms, and he has an entire portion of his talk in which he very clearly articulates to museum professionals why they are pretty much crazy to be re-writing the same content on their collections databases over and over, when really they should just be using Wikipedia.
The video is here: http://vimeo.com/47589803
I'll note that he's a fast-talking-American, so it may be tough for translations. But here is a transcript of the portion about Wikipedia. It's truly great content for your "why Wikipedia?" questions of GLAM professionals. AND it's coming from a GLAM professional (not us), which is what's so refreshing. Be sure to attribute Koven if you use any of this! (And let me know if you do; he'll be glad to hear it : ).
Building on this concept of an ongoing evolutionary construction rather
than growing your own content is looking at communications.
We need to recognize that museums are part of a content ecosystem now
rather than the totality of that ecosystem. Developing information resources that compete with Wikipedia is insane. Developing information resources that compete with other museums is insane-r. There’s no reason for us to own content that is not unique to us; all it does is weigh us down and prevent us from moving faster.
So instead of positioning ourselves as an alternative resource to those
information resources that already exist we have to learn how to use them to our advantage. I can’t imagine that if museums didn’t already exist, that we would initiate them by saying, “we’re going to be a competing information resource to Wikipedia, but we’ll be *way* better because we’ve got the power of scholarship behind us.” That ship has sailed. Wikipedia is more important as an information resource than any other single institution. We need to accept that and figure out how to work with it.
Wikipedia and resources like it are going to adapt to cultural shifts
and interpretation way faster than you are and without you having to expend those resources. So instead of developing a competing artist biography, just use Wikipedia’s. That way when an artist dies or changes their working location, it’s no longer a “somebody has to change that information in the object record” problem. It’s already been done for you by the Wikipedia community. And now you don’t have to change anything.
This is one of the reasons why I like the Brooklyn Museum’s WikiLink
project, recognizing that as a fact. It’s a resource that’s out there, it allows us to get in very deep with content, without actually having to own all of that process from end to end.
-- Lori Phillips Digital Marketing Content Coordinator The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/
GLAM mailing list GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
GLAM mailing list GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
GLAM mailing list GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
The "Kinetic Museum" video that I transcribed below is now available in cc by-sa. I have not yet uploaded it to Commons. http://vimeo.com/47589803
Koven is in the midst of moving right now and will likely be awhile before he gets me the full transcript for subtitles.
2012/8/21 Lori Phillips lori.byrd.phillips@gmail.com
No, I believe you're correct. It is not. We had the same problem with museumnext's Flickr photos. I'll ask the organizer about it as soon as I can, but I'm away from my desk the next 2 days. Maarten D. and Àlex also have access to Jim's email, if needed. On Aug 21, 2012 10:27 AM, "Barbara Fischer" < barbara.fischer@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hi Lori, a Wikipedian told me, that the video is not under free license. If that is correct, it might be difficult to integrate into our media channels. Could You please confirm, that the video is meeting our request for CC BY SA licence?
Thanks again Barbara Fischer Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
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.
2012/8/21 Lori Phillips lori.byrd.phillips@gmail.com
Hello all,
About a year and a half ago I was incredibly inspired by a talk that Koven Smith, Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, gave at Ignite Smithsonian. His concept has evolved from "What's the point of the museum website?" to "the Kinetic museum," and essentially validates our work with GLAM-Wiki by saying what we always say, "Use external platforms, go where the people are. [and as one example...] Use Wikipedia."
This year, at MuseumNext Barcelona in May, he was even bolder in his urging museums to adopt external platforms, and he has an entire portion of his talk in which he very clearly articulates to museum professionals why they are pretty much crazy to be re-writing the same content on their collections databases over and over, when really they should just be using Wikipedia.
The video is here: http://vimeo.com/47589803
I'll note that he's a fast-talking-American, so it may be tough for translations. But here is a transcript of the portion about Wikipedia. It's truly great content for your "why Wikipedia?" questions of GLAM professionals. AND it's coming from a GLAM professional (not us), which is what's so refreshing. Be sure to attribute Koven if you use any of this! (And let me know if you do; he'll be glad to hear it : ).
Building on this concept of an ongoing evolutionary construction rather
than growing your own content is looking at communications.
We need to recognize that museums are part of a content ecosystem now
rather than the totality of that ecosystem. Developing information resources that compete with Wikipedia is insane. Developing information resources that compete with other museums is insane-r. There’s no reason for us to own content that is not unique to us; all it does is weigh us down and prevent us from moving faster.
So instead of positioning ourselves as an alternative resource to those
information resources that already exist we have to learn how to use them to our advantage. I can’t imagine that if museums didn’t already exist, that we would initiate them by saying, “we’re going to be a competing information resource to Wikipedia, but we’ll be *way* better because we’ve got the power of scholarship behind us.” That ship has sailed. Wikipedia is more important as an information resource than any other single institution. We need to accept that and figure out how to work with it.
Wikipedia and resources like it are going to adapt to cultural shifts
and interpretation way faster than you are and without you having to expend those resources. So instead of developing a competing artist biography, just use Wikipedia’s. That way when an artist dies or changes their working location, it’s no longer a “somebody has to change that information in the object record” problem. It’s already been done for you by the Wikipedia community. And now you don’t have to change anything.
This is one of the reasons why I like the Brooklyn Museum’s WikiLink
project, recognizing that as a fact. It’s a resource that’s out there, it allows us to get in very deep with content, without actually having to own all of that process from end to end.
-- Lori Phillips Digital Marketing Content Coordinator The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/
GLAM mailing list GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
GLAM mailing list GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
GLAM mailing list GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
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Hello again!
Koven has now shared with me his notes for this video. They are not precisely accurate to the actual transcription of the video, but they will go far in helping someone to caption the video, and to provide translations.
He'd like for these to not be posted publicly, but if a volunteer is willing to tackle this in some capacity I will share the document with you off-list.
Please let me know & I'll pass along, Lori
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Lori Phillips <lori.byrd.phillips@gmail.com
wrote:
The "Kinetic Museum" video that I transcribed below is now available in cc by-sa. I have not yet uploaded it to Commons. http://vimeo.com/47589803
Koven is in the midst of moving right now and will likely be awhile before he gets me the full transcript for subtitles.
2012/8/21 Lori Phillips lori.byrd.phillips@gmail.com
No, I believe you're correct. It is not. We had the same problem with museumnext's Flickr photos. I'll ask the organizer about it as soon as I can, but I'm away from my desk the next 2 days. Maarten D. and Àlex also have access to Jim's email, if needed. On Aug 21, 2012 10:27 AM, "Barbara Fischer" < barbara.fischer@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hi Lori, a Wikipedian told me, that the video is not under free license. If that is correct, it might be difficult to integrate into our media channels. Could You please confirm, that the video is meeting our request for CC BY SA licence?
Thanks again Barbara Fischer Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
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.
2012/8/21 Lori Phillips lori.byrd.phillips@gmail.com
Hello all,
About a year and a half ago I was incredibly inspired by a talk that Koven Smith, Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, gave at Ignite Smithsonian. His concept has evolved from "What's the point of the museum website?" to "the Kinetic museum," and essentially validates our work with GLAM-Wiki by saying what we always say, "Use external platforms, go where the people are. [and as one example...] Use Wikipedia."
This year, at MuseumNext Barcelona in May, he was even bolder in his urging museums to adopt external platforms, and he has an entire portion of his talk in which he very clearly articulates to museum professionals why they are pretty much crazy to be re-writing the same content on their collections databases over and over, when really they should just be using Wikipedia.
The video is here: http://vimeo.com/47589803
I'll note that he's a fast-talking-American, so it may be tough for translations. But here is a transcript of the portion about Wikipedia. It's truly great content for your "why Wikipedia?" questions of GLAM professionals. AND it's coming from a GLAM professional (not us), which is what's so refreshing. Be sure to attribute Koven if you use any of this! (And let me know if you do; he'll be glad to hear it : ).
Building on this concept of an ongoing evolutionary construction
rather than growing your own content is looking at communications.
We need to recognize that museums are part of a content ecosystem
now rather than the totality of that ecosystem. Developing information resources that compete with Wikipedia is insane. Developing information resources that compete with other museums is insane-r. There’s no reason for us to own content that is not unique to us; all it does is weigh us down and prevent us from moving faster.
So instead of positioning ourselves as an alternative resource to
those information resources that already exist we have to learn how to use them to our advantage. I can’t imagine that if museums didn’t already exist, that we would initiate them by saying, “we’re going to be a competing information resource to Wikipedia, but we’ll be *way*better because we’ve got the power of scholarship behind us.” That ship has sailed. Wikipedia is more important as an information resource than any other single institution. We need to accept that and figure out how to work with it.
Wikipedia and resources like it are going to adapt to cultural
shifts and interpretation way faster than you are and without you having to expend those resources. So instead of developing a competing artist biography, just use Wikipedia’s. That way when an artist dies or changes their working location, it’s no longer a “somebody has to change that information in the object record” problem. It’s already been done for you by the Wikipedia community. And now you don’t have to change anything.
This is one of the reasons why I like the Brooklyn Museum’s WikiLink
project, recognizing that as a fact. It’s a resource that’s out there, it allows us to get in very deep with content, without actually having to own all of that process from end to end.
-- Lori Phillips Digital Marketing Content Coordinator The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
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US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/
