presented at Te Papa in Wellington, New Zealand on 23/11/09.

1. NDF 2009 - Wellington
[[edit]] this museum:
Wikipedia and the cultural sector

2. If people were passing out paints on the street for free every
day, I’m sure there’d be a lot more painters.
- Gregg Gillis (GirlTalk)
in “Good Copy, Bad Copy”
knowledge
If people were passing out paints on the street for free every
day, I’m sure there’d be a lot more painters.
learning

3. Wikipedia is...
• 100% F/LOSS, 100% open standards, 100% copyleft
• charitable foundation, volunteers, no advertising, no
royalties, no permissions, available to use and re-use.
GRATIS LIBRE

4. I believe
museums and
Wikipedia
have a lot in
common
(even if Wikipedia’s only been free to the world
since 2001!)

5. We too have scope creep...

6. ...we curate exhibitions...

7. ...and contextualise
information...

9. ...we “deaccession” articles...

10. delete or keep?

11. ...and we
“deaccession” images...

12. But we’re only just
learning how to “play
nicely with others”

18. one more thing...
Q. Why does Wikipedia have lots of educational
resources about American culture but
comparatively little from other countries
(especially Australia/New Zealand)?
(It’s not a language or digital divide problem)
A. 1. US is more available
2. US has greater copyright freedom

21. AMERICAN Institutions:
• high resolution (inc .tiff)
• nuanced re-use policy
• no pseudo-TPMs
• default is open (esp. gov’t)
AUSTRALIAN Institutions:
• low resolution .jpg format
• blanket claim of “personal and
private use only”
• (water)marking/zoomify etc.
• Default is closed (esp. Crown)

22. credits
British Museum free to the world since 1793, Vintagedept,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vintagedept/3363163941/ Flickr
Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial
Big Foot's camp three weeks after the Wounded Knee Massacre (Dec. 29, 1890), with bodies of several Lakota
Sioux people wrapped in blankets in the foreground and U.S. soldiers in the background
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.15849 Library of Congress
Public Domain
Multimedia Usability Paris 2009 GLAM2, Polimerek
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Multimedia_Usability_Paris_2009_GLAM_2.jpg
Creative Commons Arrtibution Share-Alike
Ty Cobb safe at third after making a triple, 8/16/1924
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/npcc.11955 Library of Congress
Public Domain
SR71B Blackbird, December 1994, Sierra Nevada mountains
EC94-42883-4 NASA
Public Domain
Portrait of athlete Marjorie Jackson c.1950
http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4583958 National Library of Australia
Public Domain

23. Thank you.
liamwyatt@gmail.com
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