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- New recommendations outline ways to strengthen Europeana’s future relationship with Wikimedia
This post was written by Liam Wyatt and was originally published here. Re-used with kind permission.
In light of the Europeana 2020 strategic plan, what shape should Europeana’s relationship to Wikipedia and the wider Wikimedia community take in the years to come? To find an answer to this question, a Europeana Network Task Force was formed with a mix of people drawn from the Europeana network of GLAMs as well as active members of the Wikimedia community. It was chaired by Jesse de Vos from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, now at Wikimedia Netherlands, and had a clear mission to reach final recommendations that benefited both Europeana and Wikimedia.
Together, the group has produced a report outlining ten ways in which Europeana and Wikimedia can build on their successful cooperation.
The first task was to create an overview of all past Wikimedia activities that Europeana has had involvement in. This list of past and current projects was built on-wiki (where else?) and shows very clearly the depth and breadth of the existing relationship.
The second half of the six-month review then focused on developing 10 strategic recommendations which would make this relationship even stronger over the next five years.
“Europeana has a long standing relationship with the Wiki community. With the development of the GLAMwiki Toolset, publishing to Wikimedia has become an intrinsic part of our publication policy and we would like to expand on this relationship for the benefit of our data partners. The recommendations in the report of the taskforce amplify that ambition, and we will investigate how we can act upon each of them.” (Harry Verwayen, Europeana Foundation)
Read the full post which continues here...
- Read more at blog.wikimedia.org.uk
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