NDF 2009 - Wellington

[[edit]] this museum:Wikipedia and the cultural sector

If people were passing out paints on the street for free every day, I’m sure there’d be a lot more painters.

- Gregg Gillis (GirlTalk) in “Good Copy, Bad Copy”

If people were passing out paints on the street for free every day, I’m sure there’d be a lot more painters.

knowledge

learning

Wikipedia is...• 100% F/LOSS, 100% open standards, 100% copyleft

• charitable foundation, volunteers, no advertising, no royalties, no permissions, available to use and re-use.

GRATIS LIBRE

I believe museums and

Wikipedia have a lot in

common

(even if Wikipedia’s only been free to the world since 2001!)

We too have scope creep...

...we curate exhibitions...

...and contextualise information...

...we “deaccession” articles...

delete or keep?

...and we “deaccession” images...

But we’re only just learning how to “play nicely with others”

one more thing...Q. Why does Wikipedia have lots of educational resources about American culture but comparatively little from other countries (especially Australia/New Zealand)?

(It’s not a language or digital divide problem)

A. 1. US is more available 2. US has greater copyright freedom

AMERICAN Institutions:• high resolution (inc .tiff)• nuanced re-use policy• no pseudo-TPMs• default is open (esp. gov’t)

AUSTRALIAN Institutions:• low resolution .jpg format• blanket claim of “personal and private use only”• (water)marking/zoomify etc.• Default is closed (esp. Crown)

creditsBritish Museum free to the world since 1793, Vintagedept,http://www.flickr.com/photos/vintagedept/3363163941/ FlickrCreative Commons Attribution Non-commercial

Big Foot's camp three weeks after the Wounded Knee Massacre (Dec. 29, 1890), with bodies of several Lakota Sioux people wrapped in blankets in the foreground and U.S. soldiers in the backgroundhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.15849 Library of CongressPublic Domain

Multimedia Usability Paris 2009 GLAM2, Polimerekhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Multimedia_Usability_Paris_2009_GLAM_2.jpgCreative Commons Arrtibution Share-Alike

Ty Cobb safe at third after making a triple, 8/16/1924 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/npcc.11955 Library of CongressPublic Domain

SR71B Blackbird, December 1994, Sierra Nevada mountainsEC94-42883-4 NASAPublic Domain

Portrait of athlete Marjorie Jackson c.1950http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4583958 National Library of AustraliaPublic Domain

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