Wikipedia, a library & an archive A family portrait

DISH, 8 december 2015, Rotterdam

Tim de Haan, Nationaal Archief tim.de.haan@nationaalarchief.nl

@timmietovenaar

Olaf Janssen, Koninklijke Bibliotheek olaf.janssen@kb.nl @ookgezellig slideshare.net/OlafJanssenNL

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DISH, 8 december 2015, Rotterdam

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What we hope to share with you today

1. Why KB and NA set up structural collaborations with Wikipedia

2. Our Wiki-related activities in the last 2 years

3. Their added value

Source: NRC

KB & partners are accomplishing a huge task...

Source: NRC

We are digitizing all Dutch…

books

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& magazines

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(that’s

for 20 years)

http://annakrentz.blogspot.nl/2011/05/dutch-liberation.html

And of course, after digitisation, we want to make people (and machines) happy with our content.

And of course, after digitisation, we want to make people (and machines) happy with our content.

http://annakrentz.blogspot.nl/2011/05/dutch-liberation.html

Two strategies Open, unless… • Open data & formats (DC, MPEG21, RDF, XML, JSON)

• Open APIs (OAI-PMH, SRU)

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• Open content (text & images)

• Open licences (PD, Creative Commons)

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• Unless: copyright, partnership agreements Be where the people are • Become part of everyday media- and knowlegde

consumption • Social media

• Wikipedia

Wikipedia 101

Source, 101fingers, CC-BY-SA

Wikipedia (*2001)

= the free & open encyclopedia ...

… that anyone can edit

14 years later

375M unique visitors & 18B pageviews per month

(7000 articles per second)

7th ranked website in the world

www.alexa.com/topsites, 24-11-2015

Tweet: https://twitter.com/alisonclement/status/8421314259

Photo: Olaf_Janssen - http://www.flickr.com/photos/59633635@N08/8169389830/in/set-72157631944350246 (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Acèh Afrikaans Alemannisch አማርኛ Aragonés Ænglisc مصرى ܐܪܡܝܐ العربية অসমীয়া Asturianu Aymar aru Azərbaycanca Башҡортса Boarisch Žemaitėška Беларуская Беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎ Български भोजपुरी Bamanankan ব়াাংল়া བོད་ཡིག Brezhoneg

Bosanski Буряад Català Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄ Cebuano Chamoru ᏣᎳᎩ کوردی Čeština Словѣньскъ Чӑвашла Cymraeg Dansk Deutsch Zazaki ްިދެވިހަބސ Ελληνικά Emiliàn e

rumagnòl English Esperanto Español Eesti Euskara فارسی Suomi Võro Føroyskt Français Arpetan Nordfriisk Furlan Frysk Gaeilge 贛語 Gàidhlig Galego گيلکی Avañe'ẽ ગજુરાતી Gaelg 客家語/Hak-kâ-ngî עברית हिन्दी Fiji Hindi Hrvatski Kreyòl ayisyen Magyar Հայերեն Interlingua Bahasa Indonesia Interlingue Iñupiak Ilokano Ido Íslenska Italiano 日本語 Lojban Basa Jawa ქართული Kongo Қазақша Kalaallisut ភាសាខ្មែរ ಕನ್ನಡ 한국어 Перем

Коми Къарачай-малкъар Ripoarisch Kurdî Коми Kernowek Кыргызча Latina Ladino Lëtzebuergesch Лезги Limburgs Lumbaart Lingála ລາວ Lietuvių Latgaļu Latviešu Basa Banyumasan Malagasy Олык марий Baso Minangkabau Македонски മലയാളം Монгол मराठी Bahasa Melayu ِزرونی Nāhuatl Napulitano Plattdüütsch Nederlands Nedersaksies नेपाली नेपाल‎भाषा Norsk nynorsk Norsk bokmål Novial Nouormand Occitan ଓଡ଼ିଆ Ирон ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Papiamentu Picard Deitsch Norfuk / Pitkern Polski Piemontèis پښتو پنجابی

Português Runa Simi Rumantsch Romani Română Armãneashce Русский Русиньскый संस्कृतम ् Саха тыла Sardu Sicilianu Scots Sámegiella Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски සිංහල Simple English Slovenčina Slovenščina Gagana Samoa Shqip Српски / srpski Sranantongo Sesotho Seeltersk Basa Sunda Svenska Kiswahili Ślůnski தமிழ் తెలుగుТоҷикӣ ไทย Türkmençe Tagalog Tok Pisin Türkçe Татарча/tatarça Українська اردو

Oʻzbekcha Vèneto Vepsän kel’ Tiếng Việt Volapük Walon Winaray Wolof 吴语 IsiXhosa Yorùbá Zeêuws 中文 文言 Bân-lâm-gú 粵語 ייִדיש

Wikipedia has 291 language versions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias

And is made by

77.000 volunteers (‘Wikipedians’)

across the globe

http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2014_group_photo.jpeg#mediaviewer/File:Wikimania_2014_group_photo.jpeg

Dutch language Wikipedia (nl.wikipedia.org, november 2015)

• 1.84M articles • 1.130 active Wikipedians (5+ edits per months)

• 175M pageviews by 20M people per month

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistieken

Dutch language Wikipedia (nl.wikipedia.org, november 2015)

• 1.84M articles • 1.130 active Wikipedians (5+ edits per months)

• 175M pageviews per month

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistieken

Alle afbeeldingen die je op de 287 Wikipedia’s ziet, zitten in 1 grote

bak

Wikimedia Commons

All images in those 291 Wikipedias are in one big bucket

Wikimedia Commons

29M freely available images, videos, sounds, PDFs etc. http://commons.wikimedia.org

Anyone can contribute!

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Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums

= CULTURAL HERITAGE SECTOR

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Who are the users of Dutch Wikipedia? (2013) http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Z1676_Vereniging_Wikimedia_Nederland_rp03.pdf

“Which sources do you use most for finding factual information?”

• 82% Google • 52% Wikipedia • ??% libraries, books and archives

“Which sources do you use most for finding factual information?”

• 82% Google • 52% Wikipedia • 2% libraries, books and archives

“7 out of 10 Dutch citizens use Wikipedia”

“Over 35% use Wikipedia weekly”

KB Themes

Background information on selected topics based on the KB collection

www.kb.nl/en/themes

Anne Frank

117 views (oct ‘13 – mrt ‘14)

95.228 views (oct ‘13 – mrt ‘14)

KB decided to discontinue this page

VOC

388 views (oct ‘13 – mrt ‘14)

69.550 views (oct ‘13 – mrt ‘14)

KB decided to discontinue this page

“In order to increase visibility and findability …. It has become necessary to offer scholarly and historic materials not only via the home webiste, but also through other channels on the internet.

To this end, cooperation is sought with external parties…”

(KB annual report 2012, pag 12)

Early 2013

Online stats GaHetNa.nl (section: photos)

(Sept. 2014, Google Analytics)

Visits Wikipedia lemma “Vrede van Munster”

(sept 2014)

stats.grok.se/nl/201409/Vrede_van_M%C3%BCnster

The value of #opendata

http://www.gahetna.nl/opendata

www.gahetna.nl/opendata

www.data.overheid.nl

www.openculturdata.nl

Sharing knowledge

Summary: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and

the Wiki-community can offer

added value for KB, NA and our users!

Let’s collaborate!

(“set up a GLAM-wiki partnership”)

But we had a lot of questions!

• How does Wikipedia work?

• How do we get our content on Wikipedia?

• How do we collaborate with the Wiki-community?

We could use some help!!

NRC, 9 oktober 2013

October 2013

NRC, 9 oktober 2013

October 2013

Wikipedian-in-Residence 1st in the Netherlands

Hay Kranen (1983) • Wikipedian since 2005

What is a WiR?

“An inhouse Wikipedian who coordinates and expands the collaboration

between the GLAM and the Wiki community.”

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What did Hay achieve in 1 year? (selection, Oct 2013 – Oct 2014)

And how did KB & NA continue his work in 2015?

What did Hay achieve in 1 year? (selection, Oct 2013 – Oct 2014)

And how did KB & NA continue his work in 2015?

12 workshops introducing Wikipedia & Commons

• 1.5 hrs theory, 2 hrs hands-on editing (with support)

• 134 students (mainly KB / NA employees)

• Result: improved understanding of Wikipedia/media

1. Build knowledge & skills

Click for more info

Why & added value Wikipedia and WiR

• Presentations, lectures, interviews, panels

• Media: print, professional, online and social

• Ministry OCW

• Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD)

• CBS, NIOD

• Professional organistions: KVAN + KNVI

2. Raise awareness with external parties

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Koninklijke_Bibliotheek_en_Nationaal_Archief/Evenementen#Externe_bijeenkomsten

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Koninklijke_Bibliotheek_en_Nationaal_Archief/Resultaten/KPIs/KPI7

• Be part of online community life (discussion pages, Village Pump, news letters, mailing lists)

• Be part of offline community life (writing & photo events, Wikimania2014, training events)

• Support & facilitate volunteers using KB/NA collections

3. Be part of the Wiki community

• Be part of online community life (discussion pages, Village Pump, news letters, mailing lists)

• Be part of offline community life (writing & photo events, Wikimania2014, training events)

• Support & facilitate volunteers using KB/NA collections

• Organise / host events for the community * GLAM-Wiki (2015)

3. Be part of the Wiki community

10-12 April

GLAM-WIKI 2015 @ KB and NA

Project website nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/KBNA

3. Be part of the Wiki community

“Upload sets of freely licensed or rights free images from your collection to Wikimedia Commons”

Some reasons 1. Expose content hidden away in your own site 2. Enable reuse on Wikipedia 3. Reach new audiences, also outside Wikipedia 4. Improve object presentation (case study KB)

5. Measure impact (glamorous, baglama)

4. Do image donations

http://www.kb.nl/themas/atlassen/stedenatlas-de-wit

4.4 Improve object presentation

This is an historic atlas on the KB website This is a 17th century atlas on the KB website

http://www.kb.nl/themas/atlassen/stedenatlas-de-wit

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This is how a typical map is presented.

No context!

What am I looking at??

In 2014 KB donated the 146 images in this atlas to Wikimedia Commons (all in the public domain)

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atlas de Wit 1698

Context, metadata! Reuse conditions, provenance,

link to KB-catalogue

This is how a the same map is

presented on Commons.

4. Beelddonaties KB

Stedenboek de Wit 1698

• April ‘14: Donatie van 146 afbeeldingen (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atlas_de_Wit_1698)

KB.nl Wikimedia Commons

Which is more useful for visitors?

Atlas of Mutual Heritage

• VOC + WIC (atlasofmutualheritage.nl)

• May ‘14: Donation 2.500 old maps KB & NA (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Atlas_of_Mutual_Heritage)

• 227 lemmas enriched on Wikipedia, e.g. Robben Island

4. Image donations KB & NA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robben_Island

The spinning house at Batavia

http://duitslandnieuws.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Groei21.jpg

Some hard figures…

4.5 Measure impact of image donations

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nationaal Archief

4.5 Measure impact of image donations

NA donated 15.046 images so far

4.5 Measure impact of image donations

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nationaal Archief

# of images from NA on Wikimedia Commons

Use of these images on Wikipedia (Nov ‘15)

• 7.373 (of these 15.046) images are used on WP • in 35.293 distinct articles

• These are viewed 24 million (!!) times each month http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama2/#gid=38&month=201510

Sept 2013 ca 7.500

Okt 2014 12.634

Nov 2015 15.046

After 2 yrs: + 200%

5. Link NA collection to Wikipedia based on current events

• Follow the news pro-actively e.d e.g on

the http://nl.wikipedia.org homepage and complete lemmas with relevant images

• American-Dutch trade and friendship treaty (based on NA-content)

5. Link NA collection to Wikipedia based on current events

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_personen_overleden_in_2015#footer

http://www.gahetna.nl/actueel/nieuws/2015/wikipedia-wint-erasmusprijs

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Hilarides

5. Link NA collection to Wikipedia based on current events

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Case:

Dutch Resistance newspapers from WW2

During WW2 ± 1.300 Dutch underground

newspapers have been issued

http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010436323

http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010442948

http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010447825 http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010450508

From big ones

(e.g. Parool, Vrij Nederland, Trouw, de Waarheid)

To very small, home-made, pamphlet-like

issues

After the war many titles have been preserved at the NIOD …

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verzetskrant_in_archiefdozen_bij_het_NIOD.jpg – CC-BY-SA - OlafJanssen

http://opac-gonext.oclc.org:8180/DB=8/XMLPRS=Y/PPN?PPN=107123223

.. were described in formal library catalogues…

.. were full-text digitized in Delpher …

The Dutch national aggregator for historic newspapers, books and magzines

.. and were contextualized & interlinked

1 by 1 in a book

Few people know this book, it is a ‘dead’ publication

.. and were contextualized & interlinked

1 by 1 in a book

Links to related underground newspapers

So: a lot of – mainly unconnected - information is

available about these WW2 underground newspapers

nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorie:Illegale_pers_in_de_Tweede_Wereldoorlog

At the same time, only 14 of these 1300 newspapers are described on WP:NL

The Wikiproject Verzetskranten will change this!

Systematically and uniformly describe & interlink all 1.300 Dutch underground newspapers from

WW2 on Wikipedia

..using (yet) unconnected data from

1. Library catalogue (metadata)

2. Delpher (full-texts)

3. Book (context & interlinks)

… bringing untold WW2 stories to a big audience…

and making the resulting LOD available for

open reuse for other purposes (e.g. datavizualisations)

… bringing untold WW2 stories to a big audience…

and making the resulting LOD available for

open reuse for other purposes (e.g. datavizualisations)

Early data model of how local editions of the underground newspaper Vrij Nederland spread across the country

Method, details & current status:

tinyurl.com/verzetskranten

(in Dutch)

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7. Collaboration between public libraries and Wikipedia

In NL there are 157 public libraries with

3.8M members and 60M visits p/a

http://statline.cbs.nl/StatWeb/publication/?VW=T&DM=SLNL&PA=70763NED&D1=a&D2=a&HD=121101-0951&HDR=T&STB=G1

They are faced with changing tasks

Lending books

• Access to (online) information

• Personal development

• Arts & culture

• Be part of knowlegde networks

Local history clubs

Local archive, museum

Library clients

Wikipedia/media

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Amsterdam_-_Openbare_Bibliotheek_-_0038.jpg CC-BY-SA

Since 1-1-2015 KB has central role in facilitating the network of Dutch public libraries (Wsob)

“Using our Wiki-experience, lets see if we can facilitate willing public libraries to

find out if and how they can collaborate with the Wikimedia knowlegde network”

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Amsterdam_-_Openbare_Bibliotheek_-_0038.jpg CC-BY-SA

Two aims

1. Contribute local knowlegde to WP via library’s network & collections

2. Make it easy for WP-consumers to find & use those sources

Current status

• Strong interest from: Amsterdam, Arnhem, Amersfoort, Oosterhout

• Hands-on local projects in Q1-2 2016 (photos)

Wikipedia:GLAM/Koninklijke Bibliotheek en Nationaal Archief/OBproject

Tim de Haan, Nationaal Archief tim.de.haan@nationaalarchief.nl

@timmietovenaar

Olaf Janssen, Koninklijke Bibliotheek olaf.janssen@kb.nl @ookgezellig slideshare.net/OlafJanssenNL

Thanks! Questions?