A Wikibooks-Wikidata Integration for Crowdsourced Curatorship at the Museu Paulista in Brazil
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Authors Biographies: João Alexandre Peschanski is the Executive Director of Wiki Movimento Brasil. He holds a degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo, part of which was completed through a sandwich program at Harvard University (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), and a degree in Social Communication from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. He earned a master’s degree in Political Science from the University of São Paulo and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an associate researcher of the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (NeuroMat) funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation at the University of São Paulo. His Wikimedia username is Joalpe. Solange Ferraz de Lima is an associate professor at the Museu Paulista da Universidade de São Paulo. She holds a degree in history from the University of São Paulo (1983), a master's degree (1995) and a doctorate (2001) in social history from the same university. She is also a curator at the Museu Paulista/University of São Paulo, specialising in material and visual culture. She was director of the Museu Paulista da Universidade de São (2016-2020). She is coordinator of the Digital Strategies Group at Museu Paulista/USP
Keywords: Wikibooks; GLAM; Digital dissemination; Educational dissemination
TL;DR: Wikibook and Wikidata
Abstract: The proposal is to describe and analyse an initiative for the digital dissemination of the Museu Paulista collection at USP, based on the reuse of data available on WIkidata for the creation of a Wikibook in the Portuguese version of the Open Book platform, where works are written collaboratively and published under a free licence.
The Museu Paulista was founded in 1894 and is the oldest public museum in the state of São Paulo. In 1963, the museum was integrated into the structure of the University of São Paulo. Between 2013 and 2022, the historic building that houses the museum was closed to visitors because its facilities had to be renovated. During this time, the museum team expanded its digital activities. The Paulista Museum had already had a digital catalogue of its collections since 1993 and in 2017 entered into a partnership with WikiMovimento Brasil, which led to the creation of the USP Paulista Museum GLAM page, where more than 30,000 objects from the museum's collection are now available. Based on the database made available on Wikidata and with the support of the Banco do Brasil Foundation (2020-2022), the museum's digital strategies have developed activities to reuse the data, such as marathons and competitions to edit and create entries for Wikipedia and the production of three wiki books - Marcas nas fotografias de Werner Haberkorn, As fotografias de Guilherme Gaensly no acervo do Museu Paulista and Audiodescrição de obras do Museu do Ipiranga.
The Wikibook we have selected for this analysis is Guilherme Gaensly Photographs in Museu Paulista Collection -https://pt.wikibooks.org/wiki/As_fotografias_de_Guilherme_Gaensly_no_acervo_do_Museu_Paulista.
The wikibook The photographs of Guilherme Gaensly in the collection of the Museu Paulista was launched in the live edition marathon “São Paulo Photographic” - Museu Paulista da USP’ on YouTube on 8 May 2020.
The Wikibook features a set of 140 photographs and postcards by Gaensly, especially urban landscapes of São Paulo and portraits taken in the studio, and encourages readers to collaborate in the description using digital tools.
In the technical infrastructure of the wikibook about Gaensly, each page was created by just one person, but the information on it comes from edits made either directly on Wikidata or in applications that indirectly generate edits on Wikidata. The page created initially contains an image of Gaensly and its title, as well as predefined text and data sheets that either have gaps to be filled in according to the specifics of each image or are generated as information is entered into Wikidata. The page also contains a section on participatory curatorship, a section on connections with other images and two sections in the footer with contextual references to Gaensly's work and the Paulista Museum's GLAM-Wiki.
Keywords: Wikibooks; GLAM; Digital dissemination; Educational dissemination
Format: Paper (20 minutes presentation)
Submission Number: 41
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