On 3 February 2011 17:59, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 23:39, geni <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think offering to replace it with wikipedia based text along the >> lines of say [[User:Geni/museum_sign]] would fall within 7-8 of: >> >> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Business_Plan#Mission_and_Objectives >> >> I don't know how much doing such a replacement would cost but I would >> be surprised if it passed the limit of our micro grant program. >> Wikimedia-UK would need to be involved to cover use of the logo and >> the like. >> > > One thing we* could potentially do for the GLAM sector that could be > quite helpful is to have a very simple service where they could log in > to a website with a nice shortish URL (the sort of length that could > be posted on Twitter or printed onto museum signs). They could > basically then have some information on the page - a short > description, a photo (which would get uploaded on to Commons) etc. > They would be encouraged to put up a description that is the same as > it is on the physical sign and optionally a photo. They would be > strongly encouraged to make both the text CC-BY-SA and to get a photo > up it would have to go on Commons. > > Imagine it as a sort of 'Open Museum Signs' site. Providing it as a > free service would mean that smaller museums could document their > stuff online, and it could do QR codes and maybe someone could build a > smartphone app (so you could wander around the museum looking at > objects and then sharing them with your friends or whatnot). > > I sketched something very crappily in Adobe Ideas: > > http://i.imgur.com/wo4d7.png > > Something like that is all there would be on the page. You scan the QR > code, you see the object, and you can choose to read more on > Wikipedia. > > The point about it is that it would be a nice simple thing the GLAM > institutions could control, but the rights for the text would be > assigned in such a way that it could be reused on Wikimedia projects > and any photos they upload would be put onto Commons. And because > there is a link from the object to the article(s) on WP, as they start > doing more and more signs, they have a motivation to keep an eye on > the articles. For smaller museums, it would be a way for them to start > producing structured data (which publicly funded bodies are trying to > do more and more) but also be a feeder for Wikipedia. > > Providing free tools for museums and other GLAMs might be a good way > of getting initial buy-in to the whole collaborating-with-Wikimedia > thing during a recession. > > * And by 'we', I mean 'hopefully not me'. Well, not yet anyway. I'm > off to the Dev8D conference soon and some museum people go to that, so > I may be able to find some people to get the ball rolling. I've also > thought of a domain, which I won't share or register if there isn't > any interest. > > -- > Tom Morris > <http://tommorris.org/> >
I put together a suggestion similar to this about a year back although I based it around having a new name space rather than a separate project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Geni/2D_barcodes_and_museums -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
