worldwide cultural partnerships
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Worldwide cultural partnerships with Wikimedia –
German Federal Archives
Mathias Schindler,Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Paris December 3, 2010
Intro
• Mathias Schindler• Joined Wikipedia in 2003• Co-Founder of Wikimedia Germany in 2004• Working at the German National Library in
2008• Full time employee at Wikimedia since 2009
as project manager (content partnerships)
German Federal Archives
• State agency operating under legal mandate• Legal deposit for state owned/created material
after being no longer actively used in adminstration
• ~10 million images, a smaller part being already available in digital form
• Had started www.bild.bundesarchiv.de in 2007, which prompted us (=Wikimedia Germany) to initiate contact
Negotiation
• Negotiations took about 12 months• Critical points were licensing and image size• Requirements: Free License, allowing anyone
to use and distribute and modify the content• Including commercial usage• Without time or space restriction
The Agreement
• Partnership in making 100.000 images available under Creative Commons cc-by-sa
• Images were reduced to 800pixel on their larger side (we practically negotiated for every single pixel)
• Building a structure to match authority file records from the Archive, the German National Library and Wikipedia
• Reporting of corrections being found
Authority File Matching
59.073 records in 5 months
Image examples – politics (1963)
Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-P106816 / CC-BY-SA / http://bit.ly/gDfZNH
Image examples – East Germay
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1988-0108-059 / Mittelstädt, Rainer / CC-BY-SA / http://bit.ly/i74qTC
Application all over the place
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%AAt_sur_gage
Description matters
Direct impact
90 839 613
90 839 613Pages at Wikipedia visited in October 2010 that contained images from the German Federal Archives.
90 839 61390 034 11583 771 718 August 2010
September 2010
October 2010
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/baglama.php
Victim of its success
• Requests to the Federal Archive increased 200%• No additional staff for handling the requests at
the institution• Additional revenue had to be given to Treasury• Lots and lots of image usage without proper
compliance to the terms of the Creative Commons license (outside Wikimedia Commons)
Policy recommendation
• Images created by public institutions /administration should be released with no or little restrictions, we favour the PD-GOV concept
• In the meantime, cc-by-sa licensing terms are acceptable, image size restriction should be avoided
• A special focus should be given to meta-data in all formats
