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Wikipedians in Special Residence
Jos Damen (ASC Leiden)&
Ingeborg Verheul (Atria Amsterdam)
KNVI & IP-inspiratiemiddag, 4 juni 2015
Project Wikipedians in Special Residence
• 12 special scientific libraries in the Netherlands (Rijksmuseum, IHLIA, IHS, RCE, Peace Palace, KITLV,
Boekman, NIOD, NKI/AvL, Eye, ASC, Atria)
• 14 months (2013-2014) + ext. 2015
• 2 Wikipedians in Residence
• Beneficial to GLAMs and to Wikipedia
• 66 % external funding, 34 % matching part. institutions
• cooperation at national level with other Wiki-initiatives
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence
(80 projects, 1st one: British Museum 2010, but also OCLC 2012)
Donation of images
Knowledge sharing
Advantages to Wikipedia
• Knowledge from library collections• Knowledge from specialists • Access to new resources• New Wikipedians
Advantages to libraries & museums
• Larger and new audience • More knowledge about Wikipedia cs • More knowledge on valorization • Fresh insights to employees • More knowledge about copyright • Public relations
Best practices
• Teasers to draw attention to collections• Spotlight on unknown collections• Combine introd. to Wiki with edit-a-thon• Personal approach key figures• Involvement GLAM users in a new way• Involve rank and file• Copyright
Copyright• Awareness in libraries enlarged• Difficult issue make basis clear• Most European countries:
70 years after death of the author• Institutes and libraries generally have
NO copyright on their collections.
Outreach
• This Wikipedia Project:
donated > 6.000 images,
contribs to >1.000 Wiki articles• >2 Million visits to articles with
project images• New visitors to collections & website
Information?
Jos Damen (African Studies Centre, Leiden)
Ingeborg Verheul (Atria – Institute on Gender Equality and Women’s History)
