Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Welcome to WikiProject Metropolitan Museum of Art on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, including The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Cloisters, and The Met Breuer.

As an "encyclopedic museum" of world art history, this project aims to collaborate in worldwide GLAM efforts, partnering with individuals and groups interested in stronger coverage of global topics.

Project scope

The Met Fifth Avenue

The project's goals include editing, enhancing and creating new articles, multimedia, and metadata related to:

1. The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Cloisters, and The Met Breuer
2. Notable artworks, artifacts, and other items in the Met collection
3. Notable artists and historic figures who have significant presence in the Met collection
4. Art genres from across the world's cultures represented in the Met collection (example: Gold glass)

Project background

The Met Cloisters

Following an early photo hunt in 2009, the Thomas J. Watson Library GLAM project served as the main base of Met activity on Wikipedia from 2012-2015, and continues as an important resource and partner.

A GLAM-Wiki tour for WikiConference USA visitors was held in 2014, building up national connections. A Met Breuer tour was held with Wikimedia NYC members in 2016, emphasizing local outreach.

On February 7, 2017, the Met publicly launched its Open Access Initiative with Katherine Maher and its new Wikimedian-in-Residence Richard Knipel (Pharos).

Its goals include uploading the Met's entire public domain collections, the great majority of its holdings, as multimedia to Wikimedia Commons and with rich metadata using Wikidata (all under Creative Commons Zero or CC0), and encouraging work on notable artworks and other topics on Wikipedia through both creative global and local collaborations and edit-a-thons.

The Wikimedian-in-Residence Pharos aims to "Wiki-fy the Met, and Met-ify the Wiki", bringing together the complementary strengths of global volunteerism and institutional knowledge.

Events before 2017

• Wikipedia Loves Art Photo Hunt @ Metropolitan Museum of Art. Friday, February 6, 2009
• GLAM-Wiki Tour @ Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wednesday, May 28, 2014
• Met Breuer Wikipedia Event @ Met Breuer. Thursday, April 21, 2016
  – Meeting and Tour of exhibit: "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible"
  – Metropolitan Museum of Art GLAM project development started with updated on-wiki namespace

Recent activities and developing ideas

The Met Breuer

To be pursued in coordination with Wikimedian and institutional partners:

• Events
  • Participation in Wikimedia NYC edit-a-thons and hack-a-thons
  • Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ The Met, held at Uris Center on November 19, 2017
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon: Met Open Access Initiative, held at Watson Library on May 21, 2017
  • Met Open Access Artworks Challenge, held globally online from May 15 - June 30, 2017
  • Met staff workshops with Wikimedians to increase their awareness and use of Met resources in article-writing
  • Met Weekly Challenge, seven-day collaborations with Wikipedians, starting September 2017
  • Open Access Anniversary Event @ The Met, held at Uris Center on February 13, 2018
  • Category:Metropolitan Museum of Art meetups, most recently the virtual MetFashion II on September 26, 2020

• Global campaigns
  • Partner for online edit-a-thons in multiple languages with groups like Women in Red, Wikipedia Asian Month, and Art+Feminism
• Content development
  • Curator-Wikimedian collaborations on selected artworks in the Met collection (e.g. Armor of Ferdinand I, Mérode Altarpiece.)
  • Encouragement of Wikipedia articles on individual artworks and art genres by broader community
  • Artwork metadata donation and further amplification on Wikidata, for Wikimedia and The Met shared use (try a visual query!)
    • Histropedia timeline
  • The sharing and use of Met multimedia on Commons, increasing visibility and utilization of collections throughout Wikimedia
  • Development of the {{Mbabel}} specialized tool to enable new models of volunteer participation

In the news and media

What is Creative Commons?

Alphabetical by publication

• Greenberger, Alex (7 February 2017). "Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 375,000 Public-Domain Images in Creative Commons". ARTnews.
• "The Boundless Treasures of The Met: 375,000 public domain images now available through Open Access!". The Artstor Blog. 7 February 2017.
• Halperin, Jennie Rose (7 February 2017). "New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art releases 375,000 digital works for remix and re-use online via CC0". Creative Commons.
• Campbell, Thomas P.; Tallon, Loic; Merkley, Ryan; Maher, Katherine; Guthrie, Kevin (7 February 2017). "#MetOpenAccess: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York was live" (Press conference live video). Facebook Live.
• Brooks, Katherine (7 February 2017). "The Met Just Put 375,000 Artworks In Public Domain For Unrestricted Use". The Huffington Post.
• Campbell, Thomas P. (7 February 2017). "Making The Met's Collection More Accessible". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Tallon, Loic (7 February 2017). "Introducing Open Access at The Met". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• "The Met Makes Its Images of Public-Domain Artworks Freely Available through New Open Access Policy" (Press release). Metropolitan Museum of Art. 7 February 2017.
• Knipel, Richard (7 February 2017). "The Metropolitan Museum of Art makes 375,000 images of public domain art freely available under Creative Commons Zero – Wikimedia Blog". Wikimedia Blog.
• Knipel, Richard (25 July 2017). "The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 375,000 windows on art history, and that's just the beginning – Wikimedia Blog". Wikimedia Blog.

Partners

• Art Resource
• Artstor
• Creative Commons
• Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
• Pinterest
• Wikimedia

The Met’s Open Access initiative is made possible through the continued generous support of Bloomberg Philanthropies

Project templates

Template	Example
{{WikiProject Metropolitan Museum of Art}}
{{Met-invite}}	Hello, GLAM/Metropolitan Museum of Art! We are looking for editors to join the Metropolitan Museum of Art collaboration, an outreach effort which aims to support collaboration such as Wiki-Academies, article writing, and other activities to engage the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Wikipedia. We thought you might be interested, and hope that you will join us. Thanks!!!
{{User WP GLAM Met}}	GLAM / The Met project contributor
{{Met-stub}}
Wikimedia Commons template	Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art

Project statistics

Metropolitan Museum of Art articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1		2	4			7
FM					19		19
GA				3		2	5
B	1	4		8		11	24
C		2	15	29		35	81
Start	1	6	10	117		66	200
Stub		1	10	216		68	295
List			2	1		1	4
Category					47		47
Disambig					1		1
File					1		1
Project					4		4
Redirect					9		9
Template					2		2
NA				2			2
Other					1		1
Assessed	3	13	39	380	84	183	702
Unassessed						9	9
Total	3	13	39	380	84	192	711
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 3,176			Ω = 5.19

External links

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Open Access Policy at Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Commons:Met at Wikimedia Commons
• CCSearch beta at Creative Commons
• Metropolitan Museum of Art GitHub repository at GitHub