GLAM/Newsletter/October 2015/Contents/Netherlands report

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue X, October 2015

Netherlands report

Bird watching in the Rijksmuseum; Wiki Loves Eemland; Edit-a-thon Ooglijdersgasthuis

Vogelen in the Rijksmuseum

Vogelen in het Rijksmuseum was an activity organised by the Rijksmuseum in collaboration with Wikimedia Nederland, held on 4 October 2015 on World Animal Day. Other partners in the project were Naturalis Biodiversity Center, VU University Amsterdam, and COMMIT SealincMedia. The activity was organised in the Cuypersbibliotheek of the Rijksmuseum. There enthousiastic bird watchers used a tool, developed by VU University, to select and mark birds on paintings from the collection of the Rijksmuseum as a specific species.

After the various presentations from the several participating organisations, the participants went active with using the tool. The data created with the tool will be converted in a later stage to be used in Wikimedia Commons as well.

After the usage of the tool, a tour through the Rijksmuseum followed along the various birds in the collection of the Rijksmuseum.

Cuypersbibliotheek on the outside
One of the presentations
Not only paintings

The Rijksmuseum also added all the images from their collection with birds to Wikimedia Commons with the GLAMwiki Toolset.

Links:

Photos of the activity
Project page (in Dutch)
Files with images of birds, presented to the participants, uploaded with the GLAMwiki Toolset

Wiki Loves Eemland

This month also Wiki Loves Eemland was organised. It is an ongoing project in the library building Eemhuis in Amersfoort. Every second Friday of the month, Wikipedia volunteers come together to collaborate on Wikipedia, to welcome those interested or new editors or just some fun to chat (and everything in between). The 9 October edition was organised together with the project of the local writing week on Wikipedia about Amersfoort.

Links:

Project page (in Dutch)
Images of Wiki Loves Eemland on 9 October

The Eemhuis
Entrance
Library inside
Working together on the topic of Amersfoort

Edit-a-thon Ooglijdersgasthuis

Together with the Utrecht University Library and students from Utrecht University an edit-a-thon was organised. The subject was the former Ooglijdersgasthuis in the city of Utrecht. The Ooglijdersgasthuis was in the 19th and 20th century the place where people with eye diseases went to to seek for health care.

Links:

Next "Netherlands report" →

← Previous "Netherlands report"