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Video resource on Wikimedia Brasil and Casa de Oswaldo Cruz Partnership Released
Casa de Oswaldo Cruz Partnership Released
In July 2023, Wikimedia Brasil launched a GLAM-Wiki partnership with Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz (COC/Fiocruz), a technical-scientific unit of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation created in 1986 for valuing institutional memory and disseminating the history of science and public health policies in Brazil. Since then, the COC's GLAM project has aimed to expand free access to its archival, bibliographic and museological collections, and to promote activities for disseminating reliable information about history, science and health in Brazil.
This year, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz focused its efforts on sharing knowledge about the history of health by making the bibliographic collection of its patron, Oswaldo Cruz, more accessible. As part of this initiative, over 70,000 images from 400 books in the personal collection of Oswaldo Cruz will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. The Wikimedia Brasil team is working in collaboration with librarians from COC/Fiocruz on the wikification and upload of this valuable collection, an important resource for the history of science and health.
So far, we have uploaded the metadata of 61 books to Wikidata, which has resulted in 21,000 files on Wikimedia Commons. This initial batch, corresponding to 122 books, will amount to a total of about 50,000 files.
História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos (History, Sciences, Health – Manguinhos)
Meanwhile, through the partnership with the institution, we launched a series of activities with the quarterly publication História, Ciências, Saúde - Manguinhos, a division within the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation devoted to documentation and research in the history of science and health and also to science communication.
As its first initiative in the Wiki universe, the journal hosted an edit-a-thon on March 25 aimed at improving the quality of information on Wikipedia based on its publications. The campaign dashboard is available here. They also plan to upload to Wikimedia Commons the covers of their issues, which have been published continuously from 1994 to the present.
A video resource about our partnership and 2025 activities
With these ongoing activities and others in the planning stages, we decided to produce a video resource about our partnership, in collaboration with Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz’s communications team.
In the video, Roberta Cerqueira, the journal’s executive editor, shares her goals for integrating the publication into the Wiki ecosystem; Marcus Vinícius Silva, a librarian at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz, discusses the unique features of Oswaldo Cruz’s bibliographic collection which are being uploaded to Wikimedia Commons; and Juliana Cunha, from the Wikimedia Brasil team, explains how GLAM-Wiki partnerships work in Brazil, detailing each step of the process of uploading a collection to Wikimedia Commons and making it accessible with the support of Wikimedia Brasil. The video is in Portuguese and available to watch starting this month.
See the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz's GLAM page and the uploaded media.
New platform for measuring reach and impact
For a long time, reach and impact data from our GLAM-Wiki partnerships have been unstable. Traditional tools used to track these metrics have shown failures and inconsistencies, and around the world, GLAM institutions and Wikimedia affiliates have been working to address these issues. Since the beginning of the year, we at Wikimedia Brasil have been developing an open, public, and reliable tool to help us measure the impact of our GLAM-Wiki partnerships.
This tool, called GLAMWiki Brasil, gives our GLAM partners the autonomy to track their digital collections across Wikimedia projects. It allows them to download monthly reports on media views and usage on Wikimedia Commons, access a general overview with the number of views per project, uploaded files, Wiki pages, and Wikis using the files, and identify the most viewed media; such as the one featured in this newsletter, the second most viewed among our partners, with 23,584,490 views. It is a 1950 photograph of Maracanã Stadium from the collection of Arquivo Nacional.
Hopefully, in the near future, it will also support tracking quantitative metrics from initiatives such as edit-a-thons and contributions to other projects like Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource, and Wikibooks.
See the Arquivo Nacional's GLAM page and the uploaded media.
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I loved the video! Congrats, WMB! It makes the GLAM collaboration process so clear—from the agreement that sets up the partnership, to the teamwork behind selecting and uploading "wikified" works, and especially the outreach part. The process is so robust, keep the good work, you're inspiring! --SEgt-WMF (talk) 03:15, 11 June 2025 (UTC)