Nelson Provincial Museum Wikipedia GLAM project page

This project page co-ordinates Wikimedia project activities relating to the Nelson Provincial Museum Pupuri Taonga o te Tai Ao and the items in its collections. The Museum is working to add authoritative content to Wikipedia, improve Wikidata, and add openly-licensed images to the Commons. This page sets out the museum's Wikimedia strategy and acts as a record of activities.

WP:GLAM/NPM

Copyright policy

Images in the Museum's collections can fall under a range of copyright restrictions. If an image is to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons it should be licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0) or be Public Domain/Out of Copyright in the USA (as this is where Commons is hosted). If the image does not meet these requirements it should not be uploaded to Commons. "No known copyright restrictions" is not necessarily sufficient, nor is the image being out of copyright in New Zealand.

Wikimedia Commons has a public domain metadata template for New Zealand ({{PD-New Zealand}}), and one to indicate that a digital image is a faithful scan of a public-domain original ({{PD-scan}}). These should be used together when uploading a Public Domain scan.

In the "Institution" field of any Commons upload of a collection item from the Museum, the {{Institution:Nelson Provincial Museum}} template should be used, to give a machine-readable attribution to the Museum.

The "Source" field should contain a URL linking to the collection object online, and that page should have a clear Creative Commons licensing statement. It is very important that licensing statements on the website are accurate. If the collection object is not online, create an entry on this project page detailing the dates, usernames, and contact information of uploaders to enable Commons volunteers to verify that the upload is legitimate and not a copyright violation.

Wikimedia Commons categories

Collections of Nelson Provincial Museum (for photos of collection objects only; to be subcategorised as numbers increase)
Photos from Nelson Provincial Museum (for photographs in the collection; to be also categorised as Tyree, Davis, and other collections)
Exhibits of Nelson Provincial Museum (for in-gallery photography only)
Nelson Provincial Museum (for photographs of the building and its history, including uncategorised photos)
Nelson Provincial Museum gallery (to create: curated selection of photos)

Wikipedian in Residence

June 10–25 2019 the museum hosted Mike Dickison (User:Giantflightlessbirds), New Zealand Wikipedian at Large. Mike gave several public talks, an in-house workshop for regional GLAM workers, and a public edit-a-thon.

To Do (following the Wikifying GLAM checklist)

Take or upload photos of both museum buildings and Isel Park to Commons
Historical images of museum for Commons
Improve Wikidata for Nelson Provincial Museum Pupuri Taonga o Te Tai Ao (Q6990697), adding images and more referenced info.
Improve Nelson Provincial Museum, adding references, photos, links to prominent people including sources in The Prow
Organise Nina Jones paintings in Commons (better-resolution cropped copies? Better IDs?)
- Check Wikipedia and Wikidata for Nina Jones (Q63134786)
Create a Commons institution template and sort current photos into categories and subcategories as above
Create Commons page with curated gallery
Nelson Notables by Max Lash (Q64570350), ed. Dawn Smith (Q64570161) into Wikidata: Nelson Notables 1840–1940 (Q64569758), Nelson Notables 1840–1940 (1st ed.) (Q64569904)
- Create Wikidata items from book (how fast is this? Bulk creation through Quickstatements?)
Davis studio photo collection
- Cross-check with Lash book and tag photos depicting a Wikidata person
- Batch process in Lightroom to reverse and convert from RAW
- Create a NPM photo template in Commons
- Bulk upload with Pattypan
- Add to appropriate Wikipedia articles

Sources: The Prow, Nelson Notables 1840–1940 (1st ed.) (Q64569904)