L is for Library: The Wiki National Library Project
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Who We Are• The National Library of Israel, a 120-old institution• In charge of collecting, preserving, cultivating and
endowing (or distributing) the cultural heritage of the Jewish People and Israeli State’s Citizens
• 4 Main collections: Judaica, Israel, Islam & Muslim world, as well as a general humanities collection
Why GLAM(or: a fishing primer)
• NLI intends to digitize a whole lot of ‘stuff’ • Stuff = books, newspapers, personal archives,
photographs, audio…• Intends to make these ‘as accessible as possible’
(we’ll get to that, later)
• Want to ‘fish where the fish are’
What Wikipedians Need
• “Better slippers”:
• In our case – access to more ‘stuff’
Historic photographs
ArchivalDocuments
HistoricNewspapers
Rare Books &Manuscripts
Maps
Ephemera
Current Digital Collections
GLAM Wiki NLI
• PjM’s rule no. 1:“Before revolutionizing – do a pilot!”
• Select a collection as a pilot– Digitize…– Release under CC-BY-SA 3.0 License– Use materials to create Wikipedia articles, encourage
re-use, sharing– And link back to the NLI– Enrich NL’s metadata??
Our Pilot
• A collection of portraits of about 3,000 persons (sometimes more than one per person)
• Mostly out-of-©• About 60% digitized
Edward GlazerBaron Hirsch
Gnessin
What Don’t Wikiepedians Get?
Our Larry Abramson?
Excited about GLAM Wiki, yet?
• Starting on December• Wikipedian-in-Residence recruited to help!
• “In charge of” releasing the collection, encouraging re-use, linking back to us (and more!)
• A 3-6 month timeframe
…The © Thing, Again
• As mentioned, most of the material here is out-of-©
• Making sure © is not infringed on is hard work
• Contradictory goals:– Making accessible/reusable as much as possible– Still retaining NLI “benefit of ownership”
• Exactly what pilots are for!
This is just the beginning!See you soon, and
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
ON!