Chapters meeting 2010/Documentation/Institutional partnerships
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Partnerships with cultural institutions
[edit]- difference between cultural institutions and wikimedia
- Wikimedia is free
- Wikimedia is new
- institutions are opaque: you don't know what's in there
- Wikimedia reaches a lot more
- most famous partnerships:
- Wikimedia Deutschland & Bundesarchiv (National Archive): photos
- Wikimedia France & National Library: Wikisource uploading
- Wikimedia Australia & Power house museum
- Wikimedia Netherlands & Tropenmuseum: photos
- Wikimedia benefits
- newly free knowledge: making content freely available & free
- contextualization of free knowledge
- improved perception of Wikimedia movement: public and GLAM-community
- institutions benefit
- massive exposure to their holdings (or even their very existence)
- improvement to the metadata (which is crucial):
- several 1.000.000 items = several 100.000 mistakes
- feedback channel for archives: e.g. Bundesarchiv gets mistakes (for free): Bundesarchiv has a full-time employee to correct the mistakes
- linking their own holdings with free content
- communications with institutions must be effective and sensitive
Discussions
[edit]- impression Denver conference: communication must be sensitive to the mission of the institution
- numbers and statistics would be useful to show GLAMs that sharing might be a good point for them, e.g. increasing number of visitors, improving metadata
- image: lions that might eat grass; might it be useful to focus on special partners?
- resolution-question: are we serving a business model of a institutions that share only smaller images
- lobbying work: cooperate with organizations to make pressure (e.g. on copyright laws or laws ruling special institutions)
- needed: information kit for partnerships (information, arguments, statistics...)
- opportunity: libraries "divesting" themselves (i.e. getting rid of books)