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Wiki Love Monuments and new phase of Museu Paulista collaboration
Wiki Loves Monuments is back!
The national stage of Wiki Loves Monuments, the largest photography competition in the world, takes place between September 1 and 30. The initiative seeks to increase the visibility of monuments and built heritage in Brazilian cities by expanding their open-license records. Anyone interested can participate. The best photographs receive awards and move on to the international stage, where they compete for a new round of prizes.
To participate and contribute to the Brazilian stage, visit: Wiki Loves Monuments Brasil.
Wiki Loves Monuments Photo Walks
To encourage public participation in Wiki Loves Monuments, Wikimedia Brasil is organizing free photo walks across Brazil. Through this effort, participants can photograph historical monuments collectively and take part in a workshop on how to submit photos to the contest.
To join a Photo Walk, find your nearest event at Wiki Encontros page.
Partnership between Museu Paulista and Wikimedia Brasil gains new momentum with public funding!
The Center for Digitization and Intelligent Processing of Collections (CDTIC) is a facility aimed at expanding access to the collections of Museu Paulista. Structured around five main hubs, we highlight the initiative led by the Open Knowledge - Citizen Science Hub in partnership with Wikimedia Brasil, which has just received public funding. Through this effort, the Hub will make available more than 90,000 digitized items from the Museu Paulista Collection over the course of the project, which will be shared across Wikimedia platforms such as Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource. As a project output, we will create a collaborative interface for disseminating historical manuscript documents—an open-source software tool for transcribing and integrating historical documents into the digital environment through a participatory citizen science ecosystem that interoperates with Wikimedia projects. This action consolidates a long-standing GLAM partnership, which has already shared more than 30,000 items and receives over 1.5 million views per month.
View more of CDTIC in Centro de Digitalização e Tratamento Inteligente de Coleções/Núcleo de Conhecimento Aberto - Ciência Cidadã.
View more of the GLAM do Museu Paulista and past collaborations.
- From the team
- Brazil report
- Catalan areas report
- Colombia report
- Czech Republic report
- Egypt report
- Italy report
- New Zealand report
- North Macedonia report
- Serbia report
- Switzerland report
- UK report
- Ukraine report
- USA report
- Biodiversity Heritage Library report
- Memory of the World report
- Wikimedia Commons report
- Calendar