Opening up: The National Gallery of Art’s Wikimedia project

Benjamin Zweig
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Benjamin Zweig: Digital Projects Coordinator, Digital Experience and Imaging, TDE-I, National Gallery of Art, 2000 South Club Drive, Landover, MD 20785, USA

Journal of Digital Media Management, 2022, vol. 10, issue 4, 358-367

Abstract: In 2018, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, began a project with the Wikimedia Foundation with the goal of donating its 53,000 open access images of public domain artworks to the Wikimedia Commons media repository. The project grew to include a contribution of 120,000 art object collection records to the linked data platform Wikidata and was completed in February 2020. This paper details the process of the contribution. It recounts the various stages and workflow of the project, from image preparation and metadata management to uploading and organising the images and data on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. It outlines some of the major challenges faced during the contribution process and discusses some of the various tools used to complete the project. Finally, it describes some of the project’s results, such as audience reach and user engagement, and outlines possible future steps.

Keywords: museums; open access; Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata; art; digital humanities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M11 M15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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