Only five years ago, the Italian librarians, archivists and museologists where both curious about and skeptical in order to collaborate, as knowledge organization professionals, with Wikipedia. ...However, nowadays there are many initiatives and projects in this area, so it is possible to find a common ground. Professionals are involved directly in Wikipedia as editors, making more visible their collections through digitization in Commons and Wikisource, and as mediators helping their users to become Wikipedians. Recently, some experiences have been implemented with the purpose of integrating traditional services (catalogues, reference service, etc.) and Wikimedia projects. Linked open data technology increases this possibility. The free encyclopedia organization is very different from institutional functioning and background. The monitoring of mutual influences is necessary. MAB coordination was created to integrate the services and professional skills of museums, archives and libraries. MAB is the proper place for different types of professionals to share their experiences. The article presents the projects developed in Tuscany in the last two years, mainly in libraries and museums.
Only five years ago, the Italian librarians, archivists and museologists where both curious about and skeptical in order to collaborate, as knowledge organization professionals, with Wikipedia. ...However, nowadays there are many initiatives and projects in this area, so it is possible to find a common ground. Professionals are involved directly in Wikipedia as editors, making more visible their collections through digitization in Commons and Wikisource, and as mediators helping their users to become Wikipedians. Recently, some experiences have been implemented with the purpose of integrating traditional services (catalogues, reference service, etc.) and Wikimedia projects. Linked open data technology increases this possibility. The free encyclopedia organization is very different from institutional functioning and background. The monitoring of mutual influences is necessary. MAB coordination was created to integrate the services and professional skills of museums, archives and libraries. MAB is the proper place for different types of professionals to share their experiences. The article presents the projects developed in Tuscany in the last two years, mainly in libraries and museums.
The main ways and experiences of participation of Italian public libraries in Wikimedia projects are introduced, with the indication of Wikisource as base to built a project model also extended to ...other Wikimedia platforms.
The main ways and experiences of participation of Italian public libraries in Wikimedia projects are introduced, with the indication of Wikisource as base to built a project model also extended to ...other Wikimedia platforms.
The main ways and experiences of participation of Italian public libraries in Wikimedia projects are introduced, with the indication of Wikisource as base to built a project model also extended to ...other Wikimedia platforms.
Only five years ago, the Italian librarians, archivists and museologists where both curious about and skeptical in order to collaborate, as knowledge organization professionals, with Wikipedia. ...However, nowadays there are many initiatives and projects in this area, so it is possible to find a common ground. Professionals are involved directly in Wikipedia as editors, making more visible their collections through digitization in Commons and Wikisource, and as mediators helping their users to become Wikipedians. Recently, some experiences have been implemented with the purpose of integrating traditional services (catalogues, reference service, etc.) and Wikimedia projects. Linked open data technology increases this possibility. The free encyclopedia organization is very different from institutional functioning and background. The monitoring of mutual influences is necessary. MAB coordination was created to integrate the services and professional skills of museums, archives and libraries. MAB is the proper place for different types of professionals to share their experiences. The article presents the projects developed in Tuscany in the last two years, mainly in libraries and museums.
The main ways and experiences of participation of Italian public libraries in Wikimedia projects are introduced, with the indication of Wikisource as base to built a project model also extended to ...other Wikimedia platforms.
The paper reports the contents of the conference “Challenges and Alliances between Libraries and Wikipedia”, hosted on November 10th, 2017 by the Central National Library of Florence, which organized ...the meeting in collaboration with Wikimedia Italia and the Italian Library Association. The conference confirmed the opportunity for a strong synergy between the library community and the Wikipedian community (represented on this occasion by many members of AIB and Wikimedia Italia) and for a common commitment to the dissemination of knowledge, open access to information and the free reuse of digital resources in the public domain. Starting from the felt need for a regulatory framework on intellectual property that improves free knowledge and the role of cultural institutions, the speakers discussed various forms of interaction with the Wikimedia world, activated by some Italian institutions (BNCF, Municipal Library of Trento, University of Turin) and the peculiar interest that each of the platforms of free knowledge has in the eyes of librarians. Pointed references are to Wikisource (the multilingual digital library, which cotains texts in the public domain), Wikipedia (which already ‘talks’ with the New Soggettario Thesaurus), Wikimedia Commons (where there is an increasing number of digitized resources from libraries) but above all to Wikidata, the free and collaborative knowledge base, enriched in recent times by a large amount of bibliographic data, also thanks to the WikiCite project. This kind of experiments and projects promotes accessibility, research and creative reuse of quality data and resources that libraries produce daily. Finally, the contribution reflects the debate following the talks and the three interesting workshops in the afternoon, a further stimulus to extract the knowledge contained in the bibliographic patrimony and make it available on the web with the contribution of a broad and transversal community.
Un altro dono per Wikisource Maria Chiara Pievatolo
Bollettino telematico di filosofia politica,
02/2018
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Come promesso, la nuova traduzione del frammento di Wilhelm von Humboldt dedicato all’università è stata donata a Wikisource. Dovendo scegliere fra fare uso pubblico della ragione e rivolgermi ai ...lettori, o ottenere medagliette dai funzionari governativi incaricati, in Italia, della valutazione di stato, ho preferito parlare con i primi, per i quali il mio lavoro può avere un senso culturale e non meramente classificatorio. Faccio questa scelta consapevole delle sue conseguenze, che sono in sostanza l’annullamento di un potere accademico comunque servile, perché fondato sulla sottomissione. In questo caso il ripetitivo argomento che così rifiuterei di farmi valutare è particolarmente fuori luogo: Wikipedia è letta da tutti e può essere apertamente valutata da tutti, anche in modo molto severo. La valutazione di stato, condotta da funzionari nominati, è invece – proprio come l’alchimia – sistematicamente segreta, Chi ha tentato di giustificare la valutazione di stato italiana ha sostenuto che i funzionari di nomina governativa si limitano a fotografare la prassi delle comunità scientifiche esistenti. Ma ciò significa che ogni volta che ci si adegua ai criteri imposti dall’ANVUR, lagnandosi in privato e inchinandosi in pubblico, si contribuisce a forgiare la propria catena, partecipando alla perpetuazione di un sistema fissato, in realtà, per via amministrativa. Per questo sarebbe auspicabile che le scelte eterodosse, invece di essere solo individuali e dunque testimoniali, diventassero collettive e dunque politiche.
The main ways and experiences of participation of Italian public libraries in Wikimedia projects are introduced, with the indication of Wikisource as base to built a project model also extended to ...other Wikimedia platforms.
