Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Welcome to WikiProject Metropolitan Museum of Art on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, including The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Cloisters, and The Met Breuer.
As an "encyclopedic museum" of world art history, this project aims to collaborate in worldwide GLAM efforts, partnering with individuals and groups interested in stronger coverage of global topics.
Project scope |
The project's goals include editing, enhancing and creating new articles, multimedia, and metadata related to:
- The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Cloisters, and The Met Breuer
- Notable artworks, artifacts, and other items in the Met collection
- Notable artists and historic figures who have significant presence in the Met collection
- Art genres from across the world's cultures represented in the Met collection (example: Gold glass)
Project background |
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Following an early photo hunt in 2009, the Thomas J. Watson Library GLAM project served as the main base of Met activity on Wikipedia from 2012-2015, and continues as an important resource and partner.
A GLAM-Wiki tour for WikiConference USA visitors was held in 2014, building up national connections. A Met Breuer tour was held with Wikimedia NYC members in 2016, emphasizing local outreach.
On February 7, 2017, the Met publicly launched its Open Access Initiative with Katherine Maher and its new Wikimedian-in-Residence Richard Knipel (Pharos).
Its goals include uploading the Met's entire public domain collections, the great majority of its holdings, as multimedia to Wikimedia Commons and with rich metadata using Wikidata (all under Creative Commons Zero or CC0), and encouraging work on notable artworks and other topics on Wikipedia through both creative global and local collaborations and edit-a-thons.
The Wikimedian-in-Residence Pharos aims to "Wiki-fy the Met, and Met-ify the Wiki", bringing together the complementary strengths of global volunteerism and institutional knowledge.
- Events before 2017
- Wikipedia Loves Art Photo Hunt @ Metropolitan Museum of Art. Friday, February 6, 2009
- GLAM-Wiki Tour @ Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wednesday, May 28, 2014
- Met Breuer Wikipedia Event @ Met Breuer. Thursday, April 21, 2016
– Meeting and Tour of exhibit: "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible"
– Metropolitan Museum of Art GLAM project development started with updated on-wiki namespace
Recent activities and developing ideas |
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To be pursued in coordination with Wikimedian and institutional partners:
- Events
- Participation in Wikimedia NYC edit-a-thons and hack-a-thons
- Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ The Met, held at Uris Center on November 19, 2017
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon: Met Open Access Initiative, held at Watson Library on May 21, 2017
- Met Open Access Artworks Challenge, held globally online from May 15 - June 30, 2017
- Met staff workshops with Wikimedians to increase their awareness and use of Met resources in article-writing
- Met Weekly Challenge, seven-day collaborations with Wikipedians, starting September 2017
- Open Access Anniversary Event @ The Met, held at Uris Center on February 13, 2018
- Category:Metropolitan Museum of Art meetups, most recently the virtual MetFashion II on September 26, 2020
- Global campaigns
- Partner for online edit-a-thons in multiple languages with groups like Women in Red, Wikipedia Asian Month, and Art+Feminism
- Content development
- Curator-Wikimedian collaborations on selected artworks in the Met collection (e.g. Armor of Ferdinand I, Mérode Altarpiece.)
- Encouragement of Wikipedia articles on individual artworks and art genres by broader community
- Artwork metadata donation and further amplification on Wikidata, for Wikimedia and The Met shared use (try a visual query!)
- The sharing and use of Met multimedia on Commons, increasing visibility and utilization of collections throughout Wikimedia
- Development of the {{Mbabel}} specialized tool to enable new models of volunteer participation
In the news and media |
Alphabetical by publication
- Greenberger, Alex (7 February 2017). "Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 375,000 Public-Domain Images in Creative Commons". ARTnews.
- "The Boundless Treasures of The Met: 375,000 public domain images now available through Open Access!". The Artstor Blog. 7 February 2017.
- Halperin, Jennie Rose (7 February 2017). "New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art releases 375,000 digital works for remix and re-use online via CC0". Creative Commons.
- Campbell, Thomas P.; Tallon, Loic; Merkley, Ryan; Maher, Katherine; Guthrie, Kevin (7 February 2017). "#MetOpenAccess: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York was live" (Press conference live video). Facebook Live.
- Brooks, Katherine (7 February 2017). "The Met Just Put 375,000 Artworks In Public Domain For Unrestricted Use". The Huffington Post.
- Campbell, Thomas P. (7 February 2017). "Making The Met's Collection More Accessible". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Tallon, Loic (7 February 2017). "Introducing Open Access at The Met". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- "The Met Makes Its Images of Public-Domain Artworks Freely Available through New Open Access Policy" (Press release). Metropolitan Museum of Art. 7 February 2017.
- Knipel, Richard (7 February 2017). "The Metropolitan Museum of Art makes 375,000 images of public domain art freely available under Creative Commons Zero – Wikimedia Blog". Wikimedia Blog.
- Knipel, Richard (25 July 2017). "The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 375,000 windows on art history, and that's just the beginning – Wikimedia Blog". Wikimedia Blog.
- Partners
The Met’s Open Access initiative is made possible through the continued generous support of Bloomberg Philanthropies
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Wikimedia Commons template | Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Project statistics |
Metropolitan Museum of Art articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | |||
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19 | 19 | |||||
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3 | 2 | 5 | ||||
B | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 22 | ||
C | 2 | 15 | 26 | 33 | 76 | ||
Start | 1 | 6 | 9 | 117 | 67 | 200 | |
Stub | 1 | 11 | 212 | 70 | 294 | ||
List | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||
Category | 46 | 46 | |||||
Disambig | 1 | 1 | |||||
Project | 4 | 4 | |||||
Redirect | 6 | 6 | |||||
Template | 2 | 2 | |||||
Other | 1 | 1 | |||||
Assessed | 3 | 13 | 39 | 369 | 79 | 184 | 687 |
Unassessed | 10 | 10 | |||||
Total | 3 | 13 | 39 | 369 | 79 | 194 | 697 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 3,144 | Ω = 5.21 |
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