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This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue VIII, August 2023

Italy report

Summer does not stop the wiki collaborations

Renewed collaboration with Alessandria Hospital

Wikimedia Italy has renewed its collaboration with the Alessandria (a city in Piedmont) Hospital. The parties have started a fruitful collaboration since 2021 and, in view of the important results that have been achieved, have confirmed their willingness to continue the partnership, with the primary aim of guaranteeing increasing reliability to the free encyclopaedia, thanks to the reliable and authoritative source of the Alessandria Hospital and enriching the wealth of knowledge available to citizens. The activities will focus on (but not limited to):

enrichment of articles with scientific and authoritative sources and bibliography, with a consequent impact on the level of Health Literacy of users of the free encyclopaedia;
organisation of dedicated events (e.g. collaboration "university projects", entry improvement hackathons with medical students of the University of Eastern Piedmont, nursing and physiotherapy students and on the occasion of the Researchers' Night);
uploading on Wikimedia Commons and inserting laboratory images and photographs from the company's historical heritage in the relevant articles;
implementation of Wikidata with metadata related to corporate authors and scientific articles;
creation of new articles in Wikipedia (e.g. Medical Humanities in Italian).

The hospital has ancient origins, appearing in fact in a document for the first time in 1493. In 1579, with the demolition of a pre-existing building corresponding to the Hospital of San Biagio and the expansion of the Hospital of St. Anthony, it became the 'Spedal Grande dei santi Antonio e Biagio'. Today, it is a nationally important facility and has specialisation skills in numerous fields, is a paediatric hospital and is a centre for recovery and functional rehabilitation. Results of the work done so far can be found here:https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:GLAM/Ospedale_di_Alessandria

Penicillium
Blood Culture
Microscopy image of aspergillus fumigatus
Eggs of enterobius vermicularis
Microscopic image of a positive blood culture for Candida albicans

The Puppet Museum on Wikipedia

The Antonio Pasqualino International Puppet Museum has joined "Empowering Italian GLAMs", the Wikimedia Italia' project that aims at addressing all Italian museums and heritage institutions in using open tools and the Wikimedia projects for sharing and reusing content related to their digital collections. Besides being one of the first in Sicily to join the project, the museum will also become a case study at a national level, as part of a research conducted by Wikimedia Italia in collaboration with the Department of Economics and Statistics "Cognetti de Martiis" of the University of Turin.

The first Italian cultural practice to be inscribed by UNESCO in the list of "Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity", the work of the Sicilian puppets has found a home in the Museum named after Antonio Pasqualino, who gathered the first nucleus of the collection. Today, the institution houses a collection of over 5,000 works, including marionettes, puppets, shadows, automata and stage machines from all over the world, which can find a new stage on the Wikimedia projects to be admired, discovered and appreciated.

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