Wikipedia:GLAM/State Library of New South Wales/Wikimedia Commons for GLAMS
Wikimedia Commons: a hands on introduction for GLAMs[edit]
Monday 13 February 2017: an ALIA Online 2017 Conference 1/2 day workshop
Facilitators:[edit]
Aliaretiree (talk) 04:31, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
99of9 (talk) 03:37, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
Participants:[edit]
Agenda[edit]
- Welcome and housekeeping
- What is Wikimedia Commons?
- How the Commons works (including copyright, reuse, categories, discovery via search engines)
- What are GLAMs doing with Wikimedia Commons?
- How can your institution be wiki-friendly?
- Staff contributors
- Templates & categories
- File sizes - How big is too big?
- Metadata
- Reusing images
- Practice uploading some images
- How can a GLAM find a Wikimedia Commons expert to advise them? (eg. bulk uploads of images, staff training, etc.)
Links and resources[edit]
- The GLAM-WIKI project supports Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums and other institutions who want to work with Wikimedia to produce open-access, freely-reusable content for the public. The GLAM WikiProject project also has a presence on the Wikimedia Commons.
- A list of Wikimedia Commons partnerships that have resulted in substantial new collections being added to Commons.
- Wikimedia Foundation. (2017, January 9). Wikimedia Foundation receives $3 million grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to make freely licensed images accessible and reusable across the web – Wikimedia Blog [Web log post].
GLAM institution project pages[edit]
- State Library of NSW project page on Wikipedia
- State Library of Qld project page on Wikimedia Commons
Categories to explore[edit]
Examples of collection item images with good metadata[edit]
- Frog pendant (Chiriqui) from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1992 ABC report on Keating visit to Indonesia
Copyright rules in the Commons by subject matter[edit]
Page view statistics[edit]
Tools for bulk uploads[edit]
Examples of GLAM organisations with Open Access Policies[edit]
- Open Access Policy concerning UNESCO publications
- Pekel, J. (2014, July 29). How the Rijksmuseum opened up its collection - a case study - Europeana Professional (Web log post).
- SMK Open: Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark) and Sanderhoff, M. (2016, May 18). Your imagination is the only limit – Medium (Web log post).
GLAM organisations making images available[edit]
- Knipel, R. (2017, February 7). The Metropolitan Museum of Art makes 375,000 images of public domain art freely available under Creative Commons Zero – Wikimedia Blog.
- Christmas gift to Commons from the State Library of Queensland - Wikipedia Signpost [Web log post]. (2010, December 20).
- The Mechanical Curator collection is a set of approximately one million image files uploaded by the British Library to Flickr Commons in December 2013.