Wikipedia:GLAM/State Library of New South Wales/Wikimedia Commons for GLAMS

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Wikimedia Commons: a hands on introduction for GLAMs

Monday 13 February 2017: an ALIA Online 2017 Conference 1/2 day workshop

Facilitators:

Aliaretiree (talk) 04:31, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

99of9 (talk) 03:37, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Agenda

• 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.)

• presentation slides

Links and resources

• 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

• State Library of NSW project page on Wikipedia
• State Library of Qld project page on Wikimedia Commons

Categories to explore

• Images from the State Library of Queensland
• Foler Shakespeare Library

Examples of collection item images with good metadata

• 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

• Commons:Copyright rules by subject matter A useful list to refer to for copyright by subject matter eg. 2d or 3d objects

Page view statistics

• a tool to explore the page views of a particular article

Tools for bulk uploads

• Pattypan uploader

Examples of GLAM organisations with Open Access Policies

• 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

• 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.