1. Worldwide cultural partnerships with Wikimedia –German Federal Archives Mathias Schindler, Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Paris December 3, 2010

2. Intro Mathias Schindler Joined Wikipedia in 2003 Co-Founderof Wikimedia Germany in 2004 Working atthe German National Library in 2008 Full time employeeat Wikimedia since 2009 asprojectmanager (contentpartnerships)

3. German Federal Archives State agencyoperatingunder legal mandate Legal depositforstateowned/created material after beingnolongeractivelyused in adminstration ~10 millionimages, a smallerpartbeingalreadyavailable in digital form Hadstarted www.bild.bundesarchiv.de in 2007, whichpromptedus (=Wikimedia Germany) toinitiatecontact

4. Negotiation Negotiationstookabout 12 months Critical pointswerelicensingandimagesize Requirements: Free License, allowinganyonetouseanddistributeandmodifythecontent Includingcommercialusage Without time orspacerestriction

5. The Agreement Partnership in making 100.000 images available under Creative Commons cc-by-sa Images were reduced to 800pixel on their larger side (we practically negotiated for every single pixel) Building a structure to match authority file records from the Archive, the German National Library and Wikipedia Reporting of corrections being found

6. Authority File Matching

7. 59.073 records in 5 months

8. Image examples – politics (1963) Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-P106816 / CC-BY-SA / http://bit.ly/gDfZNH

9. Image examples – East Germay Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1988-0108-059 / Mittelstädt, Rainer / CC-BY-SA / http://bit.ly/i74qTC

10. Application all overtheplace http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%AAt_sur_gage

11. Description matters

14. Directimpact

15. 90 839 613

16. 90 839 613 Pages at Wikipedia visited in October 2010 that contained images from the German Federal Archives.

17. 83 771 718 August 2010 90 034 115 September 2010 90 839 613 October 2010 http://toolserver.org/~magnus/baglama.php

18. Victimofitssuccess Requeststothe Federal Archive increased 200% No additional staffforhandlingtherequestsattheinstitution Additional revenuehadtobegivento Treasury Lots and lots ofimageusagewithout proper compliancetothetermsofthe Creative Commons license (outside Wikimedia Commons)

19. Policyrecommendation Images createdbypublicinstitutions /administrationshouldbereleasedwithnoorlittlerestrictions, wefavourthe PD-GOV concept In themeantime, cc-by-salicensingtermsareacceptable, imagesizerestrictionshouldbeavoided A specialfocusshouldbegivento meta-data in all formats

20. Thankyou! mathias.schindler@wikimedia.de