Hoi, One of the admins of the Dutch wikipedia did visit the International Institute of Social History (Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis - http://www.iisg.nl/ ) in Amsterdam today. This was to discuss to what extend we can cooperate. The collection of the IISG is of an international importance and it would be great if we could find a way to cooperate. There will be several issues that will need to be resolved before this actually happens. One thing that is of importance to IISG is that the material that they make available, will get a much improved exposure to the exposure that it gets through their own website. There are several ways in which we can improve exposure; using the material in our Wikipedia and other projects is one and localising the the Meta data is another way of making this happen. Even when we have done the things that improve the exposure, it is important that we are able to quantify the usage material has.

As far as I am aware we do not keep tabs on the usage of individual articles let alone individual pictures. It would however be important for us to be able to do this when it helps us to gain the trust from organisations like the IISG . My question therefore is; can we do this and, are we happy to do this if it helps us prove our added value to organisations like the IISG that are looking for more exposure of their content.

NB I have been asked to ask this question. Personally I have not been involved in any contact with the IISG. This is a follow-up of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek contacts.

Thanks, GerardM