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Improving the articles about modern art in Wikipedia: a partnership between Wikimédia France and the Pompidou Centre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Sylvain Machefert
Sylvain Machefert*
Affiliation:
Wikimédia France, 40 rue de Cléry, 75002 Paris, France
*
sylvain.machefert@wikimedia
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Abstract

Museums have seen the universality of Wikipedia use and have started to open up their data to re-use on the Internet. This is an effort both to improve the information available to casual users and researchers and to make images and information from their holdings more accessible. In a paper originally delivered at the IFLA Art Libraries Section pre-conference in August 2014, Sylvain Machefert, a university systems librarian, describes some of his activities as a member of Wikimédia France. A project between the Centre Pompidou and Wikimédia designed to involve the art-loving public, as well as those with more expert art experience, serves as a case study. He assesses the project’s strengths and weaknesses on the basis of its outcomes. He touches on some other projects that have also contributed to the improvement of art information available through one of France’s and the world’s most popular general web services.

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , 2015 , pp. 34 - 40
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2015

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