[Foundation-l] The use of digital material

[Gerard Meijssen]

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