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Digital Cultural Heritage and Wikimedia Commons Licenses:
Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship, 2019 Cultural heritage institutions can contribute to public knowledge and increase awareness of their collections by uploading digital objects to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects.
Elizabeth Joan Kelly
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Reuse of Wikimedia Commons Cultural Heritage Images on the Wider Web
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2019 Objective – Cultural heritage institutions with digital images on Wikimedia Commons want to know if and how those images are being reused. This study attempts to gauge the impact of digital cultural heritage images from Wikimedia Commons by using Reverse
Elizabeth Joan Kelly
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DBpedia Commons: Structured Multimedia Metadata From the Wikimedia Commons
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2015 The Wikimedia Commons is an online repository of over twenty-five million freely usable audio, video and still image files, including scanned books, historically significant photographs, animal recordings, illustrative figures and maps. Being volunteer-contributed, these media files have different amounts of descriptive metadata with varying degrees of
Sebastian Hellmann +2 more
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Wikimedia and Universities: Contributing to the Global Commons in the Age of Disinformation
Insights: the UKSG Journal, 2020 In its first 30 years the world wide web has revolutionized the information environment. However, its impact has been negative as well as positive, through corporate misuse of personal data and due to its potential for enabling the spread of ...
Nick Sheppard, Martin Poulter
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Open Strategy-Making With Crowds and Communities: Comparing Wikimedia and Creative Commons [PDF]
Long Range Planning, 2018 In the wake of new digital technologies, organizations rely increasingly on contributions by external actors to innovate or even to fulfill their core tasks, including strategy-making processes. These external actors may take the form of crowds, where actors are isolated and dispersed, or of communities, where these actors are related and self-identify
Leonhard Dobusch, Jakob Kapeller
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Uniting and Reigniting Critical Wikimedia Research
Big Data and SocietyOver the past fifteen years, Wikimedia's technical relationships and social meanings have shifted from supporting the creation of an encyclopedia that seeks to store humanity's knowledge to a pivotal component of global technical infrastructure.
Heather Ford +2 more
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Stepping Beyond Libraries: The Changing Orientation in Global GLAM-Wiki
JLIS.it, 2018 Wikipedia and its community has seen an increasingly close relationship between library communities, with both communities sharing overlapping values and practices related to public access to knowledge, a desire for openness, defence of freedom of speech,
Alexander Stinson +2 more
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Wiki-VEL: Visual Entity Linking for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR)Describing images using structured data enables a wide range of automation tasks, such as search and organization, as well as downstream tasks, such as labeling images or training machine learning models. However, there is currently a lack of structured data labels for large image repositories such as Wikimedia Commons.
Bielefeld, Philipp +7 more
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JLIS.it, 2017 Il contributo presenta un quadro aggiornato delle diverse forme di collaborazione tra le biblioteche e il mondo targato Wikimedia. L'articolo indica i numerosi punti di convergenza tra l'attività dei bibliotecari e quella dei wikimediani. Descrive poi il
Luigi Catalani
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The effectiveness of a Wikimedian in permanent residence: the BEIC case study
JLIS.it, 2018 Since 2015, Fondazione BEIC has continuously worked with a Wikimedian in residence sourced from Wikimedia Italia, showing how activity on Wikimedia projects is an integral part of an institution’s work on online presence. As an update to the Biblioteche
Federico Leva, Marco Chemello
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