The role of Wikipedia and its community in cultural production and in supporting the heritage sector

Pensa, Iolanda (2014) The role of Wikipedia and its community in cultural production and in supporting the heritage sector. In: Conference of the Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union "Heritage Commons: Towards a participative heritage governance in the third millennium", 23-24 September 2014, Venaria Reale, Turin. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

With 500 million readers, 30 million articles in 280 languages and around 80,000 contributors, Wikipedia is a powerful and existing tool to increase access to heritage and to support heritage as a collective resource. Wikipedia online communities are already active in creating encyclopedic knowledge for everyone: they produce texts, images and translations, they respect copyright, they support institutions in providing open content for Wikipedia, and they have engaged with the contest Wiki Loves Monuments over 15’000 participants in 50 countries to produce 900,000 images documenting cultural heritage. Wikipedia recognizes the value of culture and it is an ally in heritage development; governments and institutions can play a key role in facilitating volunteer contributions with authorizations and freedom of panorama, and in acknowledging the value of this active citizenship supporting the heritage sector.

Item Type:	Article in conference proceedings or Presentation at a conference (Speech)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Wikipedia, Creative Commons, cultural heritage, crowdsourcing, freedom of panorama, open educational resources
Subjects:	Computer sciences > Computer science > Networks & communications Mass communication and documentation > Information services > Information management Mass communication and documentation > Information services > Curatorial studies > Archive studies
Department/unit:	Dipartimento ambiente costruzioni e design > Istituto design
Depositing User:	Iolanda Pensa
Date Deposited:	03 Oct 2014 13:20
Last Modified:	27 Sep 2021 17:00
URI:	http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/5510

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