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Giving access to users through Wikipedia:
the case of the Tropenmuseum
Trilce Navarrete -‐ SDU Richard van Alphen -‐ Tropenmuseum
Karol J. Borowiecki -‐ SDU
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IntroducFon
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What is the impact of publishing collecFons in Wikipedia? Preliminary findings: 1. Open data publicaFon leads to exponen8al reach
2. Long tail differs in offline / online environment
3. Metadata and image quality is essenFal to facilitate (or hinder) reuse
Results can inform future policy and resource allocaFon to improve access.
Tropenmuseum
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The collecFon: 369,000 pieces (153,000 material culture / 216,000 photographic) Merged in 2014 with NaFonal Museum of Ethnography in Leiden and Afrika
Museum in Berg en Dal to become NaFonal Museum of World Cultures Total collecFon: 600,000 (367,000 material culture / 230,000 photographic, plus another 400.000
documentary images) Digital policy: open collecFons
Tropenmuseum began its collaboraFon with Wikimedia in 2009 • pilot with Suriname collecFon, alongside the Maroon exhibiFon ‘Kunst
van overleven’, 2009 • 45.000 object images and historical photographs from the Netherlands
East Indies and Indonesia collecFons, 2009 • 4208 photographs and objects within the framework of the Wiki Africa
project, 2012
Tropenmuseum
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Page views and use of images in arFcles in Wikipedian (BaGLAMa2)
Image use in Wikipedia
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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
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* 2009 and 2012 data uploaded.
1 century (World Cultures collecFon) / 5 years (Tropenmuseum collecFon) 300,000 (year=1986) vs 18,000,000 (month=Dec2013)
Visitors offline / online
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Method
Analysis
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The long tail of offline exhibiFons: 52,000 objects have been seen (= 8.7%)
* As far as documented in TMS
The long tail of online publicaFon: 5813 objects Have been used in arFcles (= 1%)
Analysis
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100 years 5 years (11 exhibits) (135 arFcles –min.wiki)
Popularity offline / online objects
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Wikimedia (=Open Data) offers plalorm to share collecFons Ø Exponen8al access growth to collecFons
Ø AlternaFve contexts
Ø Different preferences offline / online
Ø Quality of data maners (metadata, image)
Ø It grows / improves with our input = collaboraFve effort !
Conclusions
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Ideas, quesFons, data? Please email to: Trilce Navarrete at [email protected] Richard van Alphen at [email protected] hnps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakawin_Sutasoma
Thank you !
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