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A year of GLAM, UK Wikimedia, QRpedia - presentation at the 11th Europeana Conference at the Austrian National Library in October 2011TRANSCRIPT
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Making GLAM information available
inside and outside cultural institutions
5th October 2011 – Austrian National Library
Roger BamkinChair
Wikimedia UK
This presentation is CC-BY-SA except for logos and screen prints which are Fair Use or used with permission
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Wiki Loves Monuments - 2011
In 2010 Wikimedia Netherlands did a pilot and loaded 12,500 images
In 2011 there were15/16 countries involved 100K free images,
Why not the UK?
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Wikimedia UK has organised 75 events so far in the UK – and predicts > 1,000 in five years
Its fun to crowdsource. This is “audience involvement” which Wikimedians require
But, we have 2,600,000 “Geograph” pictures (meta data & geo-located - that we don’t have the time to use)
We aim to increase the “quality of knowledge” – We know the UK government has a very good monument database. We may be just wasting our time creating “another database” that takes longer to integrate then it did to produce.
Wikipedia is peer-reviewed. If we want to improve the quality then we need to improve the peers. GLAM and EDU does this.
Curators and librarians like (but lack) the audience we have
Finding an audience ...
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Curators and librarians improve our quality, we must improve their participation
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Major pre-Columbian artefact in this library is available in five languages – but not German.
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The library as seen by the world (note: free image from Commons)
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Creating change – an example
Derby Museum The wiki article was better than average, but poor
Derby Museum is a small regional museum
On WikipediaIn Reality
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QRpedia Code
•Allows mobile access to the Wikipedia page in your language improving audience participation and quality
QRpedia supplies Wikipedia pages in any language
We created a web site to receive the QRpedia requests
The website recognises the language of the users phone
It redirects to the correct article in the language defined by the phone
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How does QRpedia work?
We will ...... And you can do it NOW!
But where will we find all the extra text in French, German , Polish etc?
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“Collateral damage”
“Derby” is now in 60 languages. >150 objects now have a QRpedia code and an article in 10? languages.
However:
•Nearby bridges got articles, churches, the library next door, castles, Monuments and in different languages
•Paintings that people thought were in Derby (but are not) got articles
•Paintings that were in storage got articles
•People who worked for the museum in the 19th century got articles
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Fulfils mutual mission to educate and share knowledge
Raises interest in & status of any culture across the world
This results in more hits to a Library or Museum’s webpage
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14,000 people read about this painting on English Wikipedia
But it was written first in French
... translated into English
... and then into Russian
... onto the Russian main page
Where 53,000 read about it
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1,250 articles on Derby Museum exhibitsEventually won by a Russian
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Who wrote them all?
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This is like WLM... Quality? Audience?
Its not
here!