museum documentation and wikipedia.de
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Thomas Tunsch
Museum Documentation and Wikipedia.de
Possibilities, opportunities and advantages for scholars and museums
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Museum and Wikipedia
It’s a museum, what’s to know? You bang in a nail, you hang up a picture. Any idiot could do that.
– Sophia Petrillo
Wikipedia generates noise, not knowledge. Previous encyclopedias were well-researched and
contained precise information that could be trusted to be correct.
Wikipedia, on the other hand, contains a large amount of errors, omissions and superfluous trivia.– Prillinger, 2004
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Museum and WikipediaDifferent worlds?
Scholars
Reference sources
Libraries
General Public
Authors
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Museum and WikipediaFrom idea to publication
Wikipedia
Single use of resources and
referencesStart-End process
IdeaPublication
(Book, Catalogue, Website)
Research (Scholar)
DatabasesWeb Resources
ArticlesBooks
ConferencesColleagues
Multiple use of resources and referencesScholar as part of Community (Publication, Structures, Ideas, Developments)
Network process
Research (Scholar)Publication
(Book, Catalogue, Website)
Idea
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Collaborative Communities
collecting objects providing documentation creating knowledge
about objects and the representing fields of expertise
presenting objects and information to the public
collecting data and information pieces
documenting discussions, citations and sources
generating articles, assembling categories, building portals
MuseumWikipedia
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Collaborative Communities
Methods Practical Experience Content Contributors
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Collaborative CommunitiesMethods Discussion page Conventions, manuals, standards
– community process Methodic instruments
– creating– changing– discussing
Keywords– collaborative– colleagues– communication– community
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Collaborative CommunitiesPractical experience Knowledge and interaction Neutral Point of View (NPOV) Scholars, knowledge and community
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Collaborative CommunitiesSubjective information
Scholar
Information sources
Libraries
Colleagues
Wikipedia
subjectfieldexperience
ORIENTED
MULTIPLEsubjectsfieldsexperiences
specific channels
unspecific sectors
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Collaborative CommunitiesNPOV
Neutral POV
Community(University, specific field, Wikipedia)
My Point Of View
POV
POV
sources of informatio
nPOV
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Collaborative CommunitiesScholars, knowledge and community public access to
– knowledge– expert’s
knowledgespecific field
Expert
Expert
field of expertise
Generalist
general knowledgeaccessibility
specialization
Wikipedia
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Collaborative CommunitiesContent Metadata
– SWD (Subject Headings Authority File)– PND (Name Authority File)
Articles, templates and categories– categories– lists and reference tables– portals– awards (German: excellent, worth reading)
Quality management– quality assurance (German)– Peer review– WikiProject
Commons Languages
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Collaborative CommunitiesContributors Contributors and interactivity
– scholars– other museum staff– visitors– students
Potential visitors Participatory culture
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Museums • Scholars • Wikipedia
Data, information, knowledge, wisdom Access points Museum activities Tools for museums
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Museums • Scholars • WikipediaDIKW Which parts of the DataInformationKnowledgeWisdom chain provide the most efficient connections between museums and the Wikipedia?– Individual scholar
• Articles, Data & Information– Community of scholars
• Portal
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Museums • Scholars • WikipediaAccess points Where are the easiest
access points for scholars, and how can connections been built?– Articles– Documentation– Search & Find– Documentation & Public– CIDOC CRM &
Vocabularies– Technology
• database links• templates• tools• projects
See also:– Commons– Wiktionary– Wikisource– Wikibooks– Wikiquote– Wikinews– Wikiversity– Wikispecies
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Museums • Scholars • WikipediaMuseum activities Which museum activities
can be seen as related to Wikipedia with mutual benefits for both communities?
How can scholars be part of these activities?
museum documentation (e.g. objects, controlled vocabulary, exhibitions)
research public access (exhibitions,
visitor information, …) publications (catalogues,
websites, …) educational material Scholars (academic activities)
– ontologies and reference techniques
– methods to verify information in museum documentation
– critical use of sources
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Museums • Scholars • WikipediaAdditional benefits Information for Wikipedia
– Content for articles– Links
…
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Museums • Scholars • WikipediaTools What are possible tools
that would enable the use of Wikipedia, and which tools are missing?
Museums Wiki
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What’s next?
Maybe next time we meet in a new portal for museums in Wikipedia?
Don’t worry, nobody has to bang in a nail or hang up a picture there ….
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Content
Museum and Wikipedia – Different worlds?– From idea to publication*
Collaborative Communities– Collaborative
Communities– Methods– Practical experience– Subjective information– NPOV– Scholars, knowledge and
community– Content– Contributors*
Museums, Scholars and Wikipedia– DIKW– Access points– Museum activities– Additional benefits*
– Tools What’s next?
* not in introduction
Thomas Tunsch
See also
Museum Documentation and Wikipedia.de