swedish glam:s and wikipedia
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Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Swedish GLAM:s and Wikipedia
Bringing Photographic Collections Online – again!New possibilities opening up.
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museetStockholm, Sweden
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Bringing Photographic Collections Online
• Looking back
• The big change
• Visions for the future
• ...and some photos ofcourse...
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Bringing Photographic Collections Online
• Looking back
• The big change
• Visions for the future
• ...and some photos ofcourse...
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Bringing Photographic Collections Online
• Looking back
• The big change
• Earlier this week
• Visions for the future
• ...and some photos ofcourse...
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Bringing Photographic Collections Online
• Looking back
• The big change
• Earlier this week
• Visions for the future
• ...and some photos ofcourse...
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Bringing Photographic Collections Online
• Looking back
• The big change
• Earlier this week...
• Visions for the future – where do we go from
here?
• ...and some photos ofcourse...
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Photographic Collections Online
• Looking back
• The big change
• Earlier this week...
• Visions for the future – where do we go from
here?
• ...and some photos ofcourse...
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Looking back: GLAM:s in Sweden
• Hundreds of thousands of photos online
• Small and big museums
• Local historical societies
• An absolute treasure
• But... not very user friendly...
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Looking back (and around)
• Online for years, but where on earth (not found
on Google etc.)?
• Different metadata (quality and quantity)
• Different interfaces (usability)
• Online? Yes, but don’t touch!
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
The big change
• Social media (Wikipedia early!)
> New technical platforms (new possibilities)
> New participatory culture (share, contribute!)
> New webservices
• This has caused us to think again:
I.e. Redefining the role of the institution,
and... we’re all doing ”work in progress”!
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
The big change
• Credits to: Flickr and Flickr Commons
• International influence: Library of Congress,
Brooklyn Museum, Powerhouse Museum, etc...
• Swedish National Heritage Board
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Flickr and Flickr Commons
• Easy to use
• Not only for professionals
• Full control (almost)
• Creative Commons licensing
• Large audience
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
(Old) Concerns about collections online
• The photographs can be misused
• Someone else can make money out of them
• Remixing is distorting history
• Noone will come to our museum anymore
• We might be sued by the copyright holder...
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Unraveling the mysteries of the Copyright law (...well, try at least)• Who is the photographer?
• When did he/she die?
• Can the user trim the photograph (what about the
moral rights)?
• Is a private school = commercial use?
Sweden: Is it a photographic work or an ”image”
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Finding help in Creative Commons
• BY: Who is the photographer?
• PD: When did he/she die?
• ND: Can the user trim the photograph (what about
the moral rights)?
• NC: Is a private school = commercial use?
Sweden: Is it a photographic work or an ”image”
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Progress? It’s all about being challenged!
• Challenges help us develop
• We’re letting go of control
• We have to ask ourselves what we’re doing
By Wonderlane, http://www.flickr.com/photos/wonderlane/276898561/
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
In early 2009: – Help, they’re using our images! Wikipedia gives Stockholm Transport Museum (and the rest of us) a wake-up call
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
This was in early 2009...
...so what has happened since then?
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
From
By SOCIALisBETTER http://www.flickr.com/photos/27620885@N02/2594362917/
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
To
By cheetah100 http://www.flickr.com/photos/devcentre/74685966/
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Earlier this week:
Nordiska museet and Wikimedia Sweden
announced a long term collaboration
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Nordiska_Museet
Nordiska museet
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Regionarkivet
Regional Archives, Göteborg
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Some visions – where do we go from here?
• We need to use other platforms
• We need to listen to our users
• We need to solve copyright issues
• We need to be ready for change, be flexible
• ...and Wikipedia is one very interesting way for us
to take a step forward with our online presence
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Advantages
• With Wikipedia we can reach out to a very large audience
• Wikipedians are active and demanding users, this is challenging in a good way
• On Wikipedia we get to see the interaction with our collections (how are collections being used?)
• We can interact with target groups, using Wiki- pedia as a tool (challenges, collaboration etc.)
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Some questions• How do we work on a long term basis with a non
profit organization (volunteers)?
• Can Wikipedia mobilize enough resources
(people) to meet our demands?
• How do we meet the requests from the Wikipedi-
ans (f.ex. about metadata, formats)
• It’s not that easy to upload images...
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
We will see more ofWikipedia + GLAM...
...so, it’s necessary to share our experiences
and facilitate further collaboration.
Perhaps through annual #glamwiki events?
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
The River Selue by Philip Henry Delamotte. Source Original from the Victor von Gegerfelt collection, Volume K 1:3, Region- och Stadsarkivet Göteborg.
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Autochrome, from the collections of Nordiska museet. Photographer: N. Moosberg (around 1900–1915).
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Author August Strindberg (1849-1912). Self portrait with a Wunderkamera.From the Nordiska museet collections.
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Tugboat Hercules, Stockholm. From the Nordiska museet collections.
Kajsa Hartig, Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden,/GLAM-Wiki UK, November 27 2010
Thank you!
Kajsa Hartig
@kajsahartig
Nordiska museet, Stockholm