GLAM/Newsletter/February 2023/Contents/Brazil report
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GLAM-Wiki initiatives in Brazil spark academic investigation
GLAM-Wiki partnerships with Wiki Movimento Brasil (WMB) bring more information about Brazil into Wikimedia platforms and also spark academic investigation. In the last two years, we saw an increasing number of publications about these initiative in Brazil. Let's take a look at some of them:
- Analysis of a small university collection with thousands of views by Mauricio Candido da Silva (2022 | pt-br)
This paper presents the processes related to the digitalization of the collections of the Museum of Veterinary Anatomy at FMVZ at Universidade de São Paulo, and their upload to Wikipedia platform. It also analyzes the influence of being one of ten most accessed GLAM-Wiki projects in the world on the Museum's communication plan: redefining audience in an expanded virtual environment.
- Leaking lands: Museum documentation without digitisation, by Ofri Cnaani (2022 | en)
This paper presents the Brazil’s National Museum Wiki-project. After a fire destroyed the National Museum, Wiki Movimento Brasil and Wikimedia editors organized a bottom-up strategy to recover digital artifacts of the destroyed collection, setting a global campaign.
- The Technical Infrastructure of Cultural Initiatives on Wikimedia: Three Case Studies From Brazil, by Éder Porto Alves, Solange Ferraz De Lima, Michael William Peel, João Alexandre Peschanski and Paul R. Burley (2022 | en)
This paper reflects on the sociotechnical infrastructure of three WMB's initiatives: the photo contest Wiki Loves Monuments, the National Museum Cross-Wiki Project and the Museu Paulista GLAM-Wiki partnership. It analyses their organization and workflow in the wiki collaborative environment; and it presents strategies for preservation and dissemination.
- Libraries and the online ecossystem for open knowledge: An experience with Wikimedia projects, by Lilian Viana and Marina Macambyra (2022 | pt-br)
This paper presents how libraries may contribute to the online ecossystem of open knlowledge by creating their own Wikipedia articles when working also with Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. It concludes that the wiki-environment is a possibility for free and wider communication of the academic-scientific knowledge.
- Wikidata as a metadata concentrator: A partnership for the dissemination of Brazilian records, by Rosana S. G. Lanzelotte and Nivia Zumpano (2022 | pt-br)
Big part of the sheet music of Brazilian works are still in the manuscript format and located in hard access GLAM institution, with no online catalogs. And the editorial market of printed sheet music declines all over the world; so the online format is the solution. In this context, Wikidata is a great place for concentrating metadata. This paper presents the experience of Musica Brasilis project with this platform.
- University library and the process of developing new informational knowledge: An experience with Wikipedia, by Lilian Viana, Ivete Pieruccini and Stela do Nascimento Madruga (2021 | pt-br)
This paper presents a case study about the use of Wikipedia in the classroom by universitary library as an educational device. The result indicates that Wikipedia can contribute with the apropriation and the production of information by the students in the scientific-academic culture. What involves the proccesses of research, reading, writing, and creative-autonomous production.
- Varieties of collaborative digital dissemination processes: Description and analysis of GLAM-Wiki initiatives in Brazil, by João Alexandre Peschanski (2021 | pt-br)
This paper presents the contexts, processes and impacts of three GLAM-Wiki initiatives from WMB: Museu de Anatomia Veterinária, Museu Paulista, and National Archive. Between 2016 and 2019, almost 35,000 images were uploaded by these partners to the Wikimedia Commons media repository. In 2019, these contents reached almost 50 million views per month.
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS "WIKIMEDIA IN BRAZIL: THE POWER AND CHALLENGES OF OPEN KNOWLEDGE"
Wiki Moviment Brasil is organizing a book about Wikimedia in Brazil. The idea of this book comes from the intention of celebrating the work and gathering stories about the trajectory of the people who have been protagonists in the development of Wikimedia in Brazil. It is a work that intends to be a collection of chapters authored by professors, researchers, professionals, Wikimedians and other enthusiasts of the Wikimedia Movement. The organisation of this book is also part of the tenth anniversary celebrations of Wiki Movimento Brasil.
This call is for practical and theoretical papers written by:
- Educators and researchers using Wikimedia platforms for educational and scientific purposes;
- GLAM institutions that use Wikimedia platforms as a space for disseminating collections and metadata, among others;
- Institutions, social organizations and collectives that contribute to filling knowledge gaps on Wikimedia platforms;
- Wiki partners involved with Wikimedia projects and activities; and
- Wikimedians in general and others interested in the subject.
OPEN MIDIATECA
As announced in our last report, Wiki Movimento Brasil (WMB) and the Secretary of State for Culture of Espírito Santo (SeCult-ES) began the project "Open Midiateca: Licensing and analysis of collections of Midiateca Capixaba", in collaboration with InternetLab.
During the first week of February, our team visited some of the GLAM institutions that are part of Midiateca Capixaba and interviewed their director as an initial activity for understanding their collections and answering questions about open licensing:
- Conselho Estadual de Cultura (CEC)
- Biblioteca Pública do Espírito Santo
- Fundo de Cultura do Estado do Espírito Santo
- Museu de Arte do Espírito Santo Dionísio Del Santo
- Palácio Anchieta
- Galeria Homero Massena
- Museu do Colono
- Arquivo Público do Estado do Espírito Santo
- Rádio Espírito Santo
- TV Educativa do Espírito Santo
- Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado do Espírito Santo
The information collected during the visit now guides the construction of an open licensing guide for the daily use of all the State GLAM institutions. The final goal is making all the state collections available at online platforms (especially Midiateca Capixaba and Wikimedia projects).
MUSEU PAULISTA
In 2017, a successful partnership between WMB and Museu Paulista began, with the participation of Solange Ferraz de Lima. At a time when this great national institution was closed for renovations, the online environment was an even more promising space to fulfill the mission of preserving and disseminating the precious treasures under its care.
At the end of 2022, after improving its facilities, Museu Paulista was reopened to the public in a major event. And in February 2023, the institution's dissemination strategy reaches another high point: the MP's Tainacan platform was launched and now hundreds of thousands of images and metadata are available online and will also be migrated to wikimedia platforms.
The migration to Wiki started with 30,000+ identifiers added to Wikidata!
UPLOADS OF THE MONTH
National Institute of Atlantic Forest - 38,109 metadata about plants collected from Reflora added to Wikidata
Museu Paulista - 32,324 metadata about artworks collected from the MP's Tainacan platform added to Wikidata
Public Archives of the State of São Paulo - 149 new media files uploaded to Commons
Environment Lab - 1,441 photos of buildings from the listed historical center of Goiás-GO uploaded to Commons
