Multi-cultural heritage
Cultural heritagePreservationfor many peoples and culturesfor now and the future
Gerard Meijssenultimategerardm.blogspot.com
The strength of GLAMs
Conserve historic materialThey have the expertise
They provide optimal conditions
Provide an anchor to the reality of the past
Present historic material to a modern audience
Enable studies based on original material
Good at supporting the local culture / community
The weakness of GLAMs
Strength is in supporting local communitylocal language
local point of view
Its collection needs constant marketingto keep and show its relevance
to lead scholars to consider its relevance
The digital age changes many axiomsWhat is the role of a library
what is the value of a librarian in this day and age
GLAM and the Wiki way
Media files that are freely licensed or public domain will be used by the 270+ Wikipedias
When they are available, they will be used
Wikipedia does annotate its facts, it has to learn the relevance of annotating media files
Commons is the central storage for all WMF projects AND it is a separate project
Outreach to GLAMs is done by yet another community and it is largely Wikimedia chapter oriented
What we do for our GLAMs
We use the media files in our projects
We blog about GLAMs I do
We collect traffic information for your collection
We provide a way to use media files in blogs or on the web
Media files are often digitally restored
We are in for fun projects
What you can do for yourself
Get organised, work togetherconsider Europeana ...
Define where we should do more have us provide timely statistics
have us support the Public Domain mark
ask for attribution in our articles
Consider how our communities make a differenceverify and enrich annotations
we give what you conserve global relevance
Public Domain mark I
Public Domain mark II
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Nymphs and Satyr (1873)
Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, Massachusetts USA
Tropenmuseum
Provided images about Surinam and Indonesia
Images were seen 4,133,814 times in October
Images were used 3475 times in 69 wiki projects
1013 times for the Indonesian and 561 times for Dutch Wikipedia
Several images were digitally restored
Images were given in high resolution to make conferences extra nice
Europeana
It provides a platform for European GLAMs where a shared European culture is realised
It is where a GLAM gains visibility
There is a publication on how to digitise by the Dutch Nationaal Archief
It developed the public domain mark with Creative CommonsIts adoption by the European GLAMs will likely sway the WMF to adopt it as well
Fun & value
People are best motivated by fun
The work they do is to be valuedPeople keywords find things 85% of the time
Scientific keywords only 15%
The Flickr program is not open for new business
How to find your pictures in Google
Use hyperlinks a lot to Wikipedia perhaps?
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