Iolanda Pensa, Wikimedia GLAM-Wiki project, ACASA Art Council of the African Studies Association, MNAA Committee, 30/08/2023

1. Wikimedia GLAM-Wiki project
Iolanda Pensa, iolanda.pensa@supsi.ch
* senior research and head of Culture and territory research area at SUPSI - Institute of Design, Department for
Environment Constructions and Design, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland
* chair Wikimedia Italia, chair Wikimania Steering Committee, scienti
fi
c director of WikiAfrica 2007-2012, co-founder of Wiki
in Africa, lead of the project Empowering Italian GLAMs (volunteer).
Other contacts:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Staff member of the Wikimedia Foundation Fiona Romeo https://wikimediafoundation.org/pro
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fi
ona-romeo

3. Wikimedia Commons
Immagini e video
WikiData
collegamenti interwiki e
informazioni statistiche
Wikipedia
400 milioni di lettori
280 versioni linguistiche
70.000 volontari
30 milioni di articoli
Wikisource
Documenti,
pubblicazioni e
manoscritti
I PROGETTI WIKIMEDIA
//////////////////////////
I contenuti dei progetti Wikimedia
sono liberi. Chiunque può usarli e
modificarli per fini commerciali e non
(citando la fonte e condividendoli con
la stessa licenza Creative Commons).
Wiki voyage
Informazioni turistiche
OpenStreetMap
Mappa con dati georeferenziati
Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects are websites managed by online communities. Last update February 2023 https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects
Wikimedia Foundation is the institution supporting Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects and managing their servers.
Data items that anyone can edit
Open linked data
102 million items
Under the open tool CC0
Wikidata
Wikimedia Commons
OpenStreetMap
Wikisource
Wikivoyage
the free worldwide travel guide
that you can edit.
License CC BY-SA
A freely usable map built by a
community of mappers that contribute
and maintain data about roads, trails,
cafés, railway stations, and much
more, all over the world.
freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute
90 million files
Files in public domain, CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA and similar
the free library that anyone can
improve
Wikipedia
the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
60 million articles
331 linguistic editions
25 billion visualisations per month
200 million registered users
300’000 active contributors
Open license CC BY-SA 3.0
a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites
Internet Archive
An existing, open and free ecosystem of resources maintained by open multilingual international communities of volunteers
Files in public
domain, CC0, CC
BY, CC BY-SA
and similar

4. Connected to the world
and multilingual
Active communities of
contributors
Contributing in
fi
lling
the Knowledge gaps
Impressive visibility
and access
Content available for
any reuse
An existing, open and free ecosystem of resources maintained by open multilingual international communities of volunteers
FAIR principles
(Quality of data)
Open Access
(For museums and research)
CARE principles
(Responsibilities and ethics)
Sustainability
(Open data/software)
Open Government
(Public money public data)

5. GLAMVisual Tool (SUPSI support WMCH, 2016-2017). Concept I. Pensa, design G. Profeta. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:GLAM_visual_tool
Visibility, access and serving all communities around the world
The views of The Met collection increased from 2 million views to 10 million
views in 1 year through Wikimedia Common.
Creating Access beyond metmuseum.org:The Met Collection on Wikipedia, 2018
https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/2018/open-access-at-the-met-year-one
Wikimedia and The Met:A Shared DigitalVision, 2018
https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/2018/wikimedia-and-the-met-digital-vision

6. Wikimedia Commons
Immagini e video
WikiData
collegamenti interwiki e
informazioni statistiche
Wikipedia
400 milioni di lettori
280 versioni linguistiche
70.000 volontari
30 milioni di articoli
Wikisource
Documenti,
pubblicazioni e
manoscritti
I PROGETTI WIKIMEDIA
//////////////////////////
I contenuti dei progetti Wikimedia
sono liberi. Chiunque può usarli e
modificarli per fini commerciali e non
(citando la fonte e condividendoli con
la stessa licenza Creative Commons).
Wiki voyage
Informazioni turistiche
OpenStreetMap
Mappa con dati georeferenziati
Data items that anyone can edit
Open linked data
102 million items
Under the open tool CC0
Wikidata
Wikimedia Commons
OpenStreetMap
Wikisource
Wikivoyage
the free worldwide travel guide
that you can edit.
License CC BY-SA
A freely usable map built by a
community of mappers that contribute
and maintain data about roads, trails,
cafés, railway stations, and much
more, all over the world.
freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute
90 million files
Files in public domain, CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA and similar
the free library that anyone can
improve
Wikipedia
the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
60 million articles
331 linguistic editions
20 billion visualisations per month
200 million registered users
300’000 active users
Open license CC BY-SA 3.0
a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites
Internet Archive
Files in public
domain, CC0, CC
BY, CC BY-SA
and similar
When © all rights are reserved
When nothing is written
Prohibiting derivative works
Prohibiting commercial use
CC 0
CC BY
CC BY-SA
Requiring attribution of data
MIC BY NC
Collaboration requires open licenses and open tools
It is always necessary to indicate the authorisation on content and – to be interoperable with the Wikimedia projects and OpenSteetMap
and to be Open – it is necessary to always allow modi
fi
cations and commercial reuse

7. Improving data
about African
collections on
Wikidata
Uploading the
selected images on
Wikimedia
Commons with
metadata
Contributing to
Wikipedia articles
with images and
other documents
The Open Access Policy
have to include the terms
and conditions for the
reuse (recommended the
open tool CC0) and it can
refer to the CARE
principles for Indigenous
Data Governance https://
www.gida-global.org/care
Institutions select
digital reproductions
they can share
Including in the
institution’ website a
license and an Open
Access Policy
5
4
3
2
1
The selection can be
simply of 20 images.
It is recommended for the
pilot to start with
something simple
(something already online
on your website).
Training and events can be
organised to trigger the
use of the open
documentation by
volunteers and
professionals everywhere
in the world
Linked open data which
can be enriched, compared,
searched and used also to
monitor changes, produce
visualisations, and
contribute to research
You can reuse those data
on other websites, create
maps, produce interactive
visualizations…
A support can be asked to the Wikimedia Foundation for the data impoundment on Wikidata, the uploads and the trainings and events.
Digital reproductions of
public domain content and
other images can be
uploaded on Wikimedia
Commons with their
metadata, they are
associated to the
institution and they can be
enriched with new
categories, information and
links

8. Unless differently
stated in
Publications, articles,
papers, signed texts,
videos, audios,
educational resources
in
Institutional websites Documents by others
Digital reproductions
of work, photographic
collections, scanned
books, digitalized
documents…
Software
Use a speci
fi
c open
license for software
Signed works
Data and metadata
Data produced by
research, metadata,
internal documents
(policies,
regulations…) in
Collaborative projects
When involving
volunteers in
Furthermore different kind of content can be shared

9. GLAM-Wiki initiatives and Wikipedian in residence
Wikipedian in residence
Agreement
with a museum
Training Events
Licensing
Contacts with museums
Training Events
Training Events
Conferences
Meetings
Networking
Uploads on the
Wikimedia projects
Chart Iolanda Pensa. Images: Museums around the world -Visualisation on OpenStreetMap generated by a Wikidata Query from data on Wikidata. CC BY-SA.
Wikidata Query to locate current Wikipedians in residence. Updated August 2023. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedian_in_residence

10. Selection of references
• Democratising the Rijksmuseum:Why did the Rijksmuseum make available their highest quality material without
restrictions, and what are the results? by Joris Pekel in 2014 (pdf), https://pro.europeana.eu/
fi
les/
Europeana_Professional/Publications/Democratising%20the%20Rijksmuseum.pdf
• The Impact of Open Access on Galleries, Libraries, Museums, & Archives by Ef
fi
e Kapsalis of The Smithsonian
Institution, in 2016 (pdf), https://siarchives.si.edu/sites/default/
fi
les/pdfs/2016_03_10_OpenCollections_Public.pdf
• Open access can never be bad news by Merete Sanderhoff of Statens Museum for Kunst, in 2017, https://medium.com/
smk-open/open-access-can-never-be-bad-news-d33336aad382
• Creating Access beyond http://metmuseum.org:The Met Collection onWikipedia by Loic Tallon in 2018, https://
www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/2018/open-access-at-the-met-year-one
• Open access to collections is a no-brainer – it’s a clear-cut extension of any museum’s mission by Doug McCarthy and
Dr Andrea Wallace in 2020, https://www.apollo-magazine.com/open-access-images-museum-mission-open-glam/
• Inside the Museum is Outside the Museum —Thoughts on Open Access and Organisational Culture by Karin
Glasemann of Nationalmuseum Sweden, in 2020, https://medium.com/open-glam/inside-the-museum-is-outside-
the-museum-thoughts-on-open-access-and-organisational-culture-1e9780d6385b
• The First Anniversary of CMA Open Access: Bene
fi
ting People Now and Forever by Jane Alexander of Cleveland
Musuem of Art, in 2020, https://medium.com/cma-thinker/the-
fi
rst-anniversary-of-cma-open-access-bene
fi
ting-
people-now-and-forever-9f3b70893534
• Digital Heritage Consumption:The Case of the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Trilce Navarrete and ElenaVillaespesa
in 2020 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bfb2/f76c18667a626a05d56dbff5a30ca3826a4d.pdf
• Images fromWellcome Collection pass 1.5 billion views onWikipedia by Dr Alice White in 2021, https://
stacks.wellcomecollection.org/images-from-wellcome-collection-pass-1-5-billion-views-on-wikipedia-
ee9663b62bef
Iolanda Pensa,Wikimedia GLAM-Wiki project,ACASA Art Council of the African Studies Association, MNAA Committee, 30/08/2023, CC BY-SA 4.0

11. Extra

12. WikiAfrica/ShareYour Knowledge 2012. Iolanda Pensa, status report with mistakes, 2013, CC by-sa. Status http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Case_studies/WikiAfrica/Share_Your_Knowledge/Institutions
Event: conference/training/workshop
Research
Archives
Wiki Loves Monuments
Notebooks (Detour, myDetour,WikiAfrica special editions)
Presentations and events
Creative Commons af
fi
liate
Orange and Orange Foundation (free Wikipedia on mobile phones)
Brooklyn Museum
Feed My Starving Children
International Institute for
Communication and Development
Sustainable Sanitation Alliance
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
AfricaFilms.tv
Western Province Government – Department of museums - 28
museums in Western Cape Province, South Africa, Bartolomeu Dias
Museum, Beaufort-West Museum, Caledon Museum, Cango Caves
Museum, Cape Medical Museum, CP Nel Museum, Drostdy Museum,
Fransie Pienaar Museum, Genadendal Mission Museum, George
Museum, Groot-Brakrivier Museum, Hout Bay Museum, Huguenot
Memorial Museum, Jan Dankaert Museum, Koopmans De Wet House
Museum, Montagu Museum, Old Harbour Museum, Paarl Museum,
Robertson Museum, SA Fisheries Museum,
Sendinggestig(Missionary)Museum, Shipwreck Museum, Simon's Town
Museum, Stellenbosch Museum, Transport Riders Museum, Wellington
Museum, Wheat Industry Museum, Worcester Museum
Gambia National Museum
Sungani Zakwathu Cultural Heritage Promotions
Postal Museum, Matengatenga, Malawi
Zanzibar National Museum
Phuthidikabo Museum,
Mochudi, Botswana
Seychelles People Defense
Forces Museum (SPDF)
Uganda National Museum
Dataset of administrations in Botswana

13. Free ≠ Open

14. In the Open Movement
Free means Freedom
And it requires the use of
open licenses, open tools and open and libre software

15. https://fedigov.eu/

16. https://fedigov.eu/