Op 4 juni 2015 vond de KNVI-IP inspiratiemiddag over Wikipedia plaats. De presentaties zijn hier bij elkaar gezet.

1. Wikipedians
in Special Residence
Jos Damen (ASC Leiden)
&
Ingeborg Verheul (Atria Amsterdam)
KNVI & IP-inspiratiemiddag, 4 juni 2015

2. 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)

3. Donation of images

4. Knowledge sharing

5. Advantages to Wikipedia
• Knowledge from library collections
• Knowledge from specialists
• Access to new resources
• New Wikipedians

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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

10. Information?
Jos Damen
(African Studies Centre, Leiden)
jdamen@ascleiden.nl
Ingeborg Verheul
(Atria – Institute on Gender
Equality and Women’s History)
i.verheul@atria.nl