advocacy, education, and action: the wikipedia saves public art case study
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Presentation give by Richard McCoy and Lori Phillips at Museum Computer Network, Austin, TX, October 30, 2010.TRANSCRIPT
Advocacy, Education, and Action:
The Wikipedia Saves Public ArtCase Study
Museum Computer NetworkAustin, 2010
Richard McCoy& Lori Phillips
Photo: IMA Photo: IndyStar
Photo: IMA
Saver of the World’s Cultural Property
1992-1994•8,000 volunteers•Surveyed 32,000 sculptures
What do you think, you want to help?
No, not really
How about a bribe?
Richard, Christina Gentry, Jasmine Parsons, Aaron Renn, IMA Director Max Anderson
What do you think, you want to help?
What do you think, you want to help?
•IUPUI Public Art Collection Created & 100s of images of public art uploaded to Flickr
•Students trained to work in the “real world” to help solve a real problem
•Students learn basics of documentation: examination, description, measurement, photographic skillz
•Students gain experience researching with primary sources, writing, contextualizing, and publishing their work in one of the world’s most important websites, rather than just turn it in to some teacher
•Students understand Wikipedia and how information is created
Results
Dean of Herron School of Art & Design
Happy Graduate Student
Richard’s IMA blog post
•40 Articles created about public art at IUPUI
•2 of the articles made to the Main Page of Wikipedia in the “Did You Know Section”Kind of a big deal
•SOS! entries updated Kind of cool
•Project worked to advocate for the importance of the collection: campus more engaged about its artwork
•Many blog and local news stories about project, an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education
More Results
Put it in Wikipedia with GIS and Magic Happens
Facebook Magic
Where’s the information going next?
Wikipedia is so interoperable I don’t even understand it.
And More Results!•Wikipedia Saves Public Art Created; WSPA Resources transportable to other art projects
•Currently 3 different approaches to the project: Community, Educators, and Museum—development ongoing
•Members working in Milwaukee, D.C., Paris, and other cities to help document public art
•Currently being used by our IUPUI Museum Studies Collections Care and Maintenance course to document 42 public artworks at the Indiana Statehouse
•Truly could become the platform for documenting all of the public art in the world
What can WSPA do for your museum?
• Lori Byrd Phillips • IUPUI Museum Studies Graduate Student, teaching assistant for the Collections Care and Management course• Developing the IMA’s E-Volunteer Program• interning as the in-house Wikipedian at The Children’s Museum• Project leader for Wikipedia Saves Public Art.
Does your institution have a volunteer program?
Does it have an E-Volunteer program?
IMA E-Volunteer Page
Main E-Volunteer Page
WSPA Resources
And it all comes together…
