GLAM Booklet 2013
The GLAM Booklet 2013 is a 20 page booklet designed by Wikimedia UK in 2013. The purpose of the book is to be a physical handout for people in the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums sector that introduces them to GLAM and Wikimedia, makes the case for the two to work together and gives some varied examples of cooperation between organisations..
This page is not part of the booklet, but instead explains the process. The subpages are text and pictures that are intended for individual pages in the book. To some extent the booklet is intended as a sister to the Wikipedia education Program booklet Case Studies:How Universities are teaching with Wikipedia though the design will reflect current Wikimedia UK design standards.
All content is available under an open license, so it is hoped that other Wikimedia GLAM programs will contribute content and also reuse content.
Apart from the front and back cover and pages 2 and 3, all pages are intended to work both individually and as double page spreads, this will be achieved either by having contrasting approaches to the same issue on facing pages, or by having related examples on facing pages.
As this is a UK product we are aiming to have at least one UK linked example in each pair. We also want to have contrasting examples in scale, both in terms of the size of the organisation and also of the extent of Wikimedia collaboration.
At some point in the future print on demand may fall to a price where we can afford to print batches of these for each event. But in the meantime we will follow the education example and not include any dates in the booklet.
Page 1. Front Cover
Making humanity’s cultural heritage accessible to the whole of humanity.
A formula for successful collaboration between Wikipedia & cultural institutions
Page 2. Inside Front Cover
This will contain a few paragraphs explaining what the booklet covers What have the British Library, the Smithsonian in Washington DC, the Palace of Versailles and the German Archaeological Institute in common? They have all worked with volunteers from Wikipedia.
Wikimedia Commons image File:Ours_nageant_(Musée_du_quai_Branly)_(3034045389).jpg A Dorset culture carving of a Polar Bear. Image uploaded by Wikimedian Russavia. With thanks to Jean-Pierre Dalbéra for taking the photograph and the Musée du quai Branly for allowing photography.
The Dorset People were a pre inuit people of what is now Greenland and the Canadian Arctic. The Wikipedia article on them is illustrated by this photograph of an exquisitely carved Polar Bear, part of their cultural legacy to the rest of humanity. So a photographer from Nice took a photograph in a French Museum of an object from Canada, and with the assistance of a Wikimedian from Australia that image sits on a computer in America, and after being added to the relevant Wikipedia article by a Londoner, is available to all humanity by the power of the internet.
There are various ways to measure Wikipedia and how close we are to completing our task; Some time ago Wikipedia reached a quantity threshold where people started to expect to find a Wikipedia article when they searched for something on the web. As early as 2012 a tenth of all the world’s adults and adolescents were visiting the site every month. So we are “in the ballpark” when it comes to quantity and reach, and for many wikimedians the time has come to put more focus on improving quality. Which is one of the reasons why we want to work with the heritage sector. The heritage sector has the imagery, expertise and reference sources that can help us transform the quality of Wikipedia; In return we think there are huge potential benefits for the heritage sector.
In the last few years there have been dozens of joint events around the world between Wikimedians and cultural institutions to further our common goal of making the sum of human knowledge available to all humanity. This booklet showcases some of those events and we hope will reassure and to an extent inspire anyone in the cultural sector who is thinking of partnering with Wikimedians.
Jonathan Cardy
GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) organiser Wikimedia UK
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Page 4. Front Cover
Making humanity’s cultural heritage accessible to the whole of humanity.
A formula for successful collaboration between Wikipedia & cultural institutions
Front Cover
Making humanity’s cultural heritage accessible to the whole of humanity.
A formula for successful collaboration between Wikipedia & cultural institutions
Page 1. Front Cover
Making humanity’s cultural heritage accessible to the whole of humanity.
A formula for successful collaboration between Wikipedia & cultural institutions
Page 1. Front Cover
Making humanity’s cultural heritage accessible to the whole of humanity.
A formula for successful collaboration between Wikipedia & cultural institutions
Page 1. Front Cover
Making humanity’s cultural heritage accessible to the whole of humanity.
A formula for successful collaboration between Wikipedia & cultural institutions
Page 1. Front Cover
Making humanity’s cultural heritage accessible to the whole of humanity.
A formula for successful collaboration between Wikipedia & cultural institutions
Page 1. Front Cover
Making humanity’s cultural heritage accessible to the whole of humanity.
A formula for successful collaboration between Wikipedia & cultural institutions
Page 1. Front Cover
Making humanity’s cultural heritage accessible to the whole of humanity.
A formula for successful collaboration between Wikipedia & cultural institutions
Page 1. Front Cover
Making humanity’s cultural heritage accessible to the whole of humanity.
A formula for successful collaboration between Wikipedia & cultural institutions
Page 1. Front Cover
Making humanity’s cultural heritage accessible to the whole of humanity.
A formula for successful collaboration between Wikipedia & cultural institutions
Page 1. Front Cover
Making humanity’s cultural heritage accessible to the whole of humanity.
A formula for successful collaboration between Wikipedia & cultural institutions
Page 1. Front Cover
Making humanity’s cultural heritage accessible to the whole of humanity.
A formula for successful collaboration between Wikipedia & cultural institutions
Page 1. Front Cover
Making humanity’s cultural heritage accessible to the whole of humanity.
A formula for successful collaboration between Wikipedia & cultural institutions
Page 1. Front Cover
Making humanity’s cultural heritage accessible to the whole of humanity.
A formula for successful collaboration between Wikipedia & cultural institutions
Page 1. Front Cover
Making humanity’s cultural heritage accessible to the whole of humanity.
A formula for successful collaboration between Wikipedia & cultural institutions