swedish glam:s and wikipedia

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


Bringing Photographic Collections Online

• Looking back

• The big change

• Visions for the future

• ...and some photos ofcourse...



• Looking back

• The big change

• Earlier this week

• Visions for the future




• Looking back

• The big change

• Earlier this week...

• Visions for the future – where do we go from

here?



Photographic Collections Online

• Looking back

• The big change

• Earlier this week...

• Visions for the future – where do we go from

here?



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...


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!


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”!


The big change

• Credits to: Flickr and Flickr Commons

• International influence: Library of Congress,

Brooklyn Museum, Powerhouse Museum, etc...

• Swedish National Heritage Board


Flickr and Flickr Commons

• Easy to use

• Not only for professionals

• Full control (almost)

• Creative Commons licensing

• Large audience


(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...


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”


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”


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/


In early 2009: – Help, they’re using our images! Wikipedia gives Stockholm Transport Museum (and the rest of us) a wake-up call


This was in early 2009...

...so what has happened since then?


From

By SOCIALisBETTER http://www.flickr.com/photos/27620885@N02/2594362917/


To

By cheetah100 http://www.flickr.com/photos/devcentre/74685966/


Earlier this week:

Nordiska museet and Wikimedia Sweden

announced a long term collaboration


http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Nordiska_Museet

Nordiska museet


http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Regionarkivet

Regional Archives, Göteborg


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


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.)


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...


We will see more ofWikipedia + GLAM...

...so, it’s necessary to share our experiences

and facilitate further collaboration.

Perhaps through annual #glamwiki events?


The River Selue by Philip Henry Delamotte. Source Original from the Victor von Gegerfelt collection, Volume K 1:3, Region- och Stadsarkivet Göteborg.


Autochrome, from the collections of Nordiska museet. Photographer: N. Moosberg (around 1900–1915).


Author August Strindberg (1849-1912). Self portrait with a Wunderkamera.From the Nordiska museet collections.


Tugboat Hercules, Stockholm. From the Nordiska museet collections.


Thank you!

Kajsa Hartig

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@kajsahartig

Nordiska museet, Stockholm

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