Otago Museum Wikipedia GLAM project page

This project page co-ordinates Wikimedia project activities relating to the Otago Museum 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/OM

Copyright policy

Images in Otago 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:Otago 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. 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 the Otago Museum (for collection object photos; to be subcategorised as numbers increase)
Exhibits of the Otago Museum (for in-gallery photography only)
Otago Museum (for photographs of the building and its history, including uncategorised photos)
Otago Museum gallery (to create: curated selection of photos)

Gallery

Image uploads

15 February 2019: Falkland wolf, thylacine, and kurī specimens were photographed by Kane Fleury (Assistant Curator Natural Science) and uploaded with the assistance of User:Giantflightlessbirds, the visiting NZ Wikipedian at Large.
4–5 May 2019: Upload of Burton Brothers images of historical museum interior, moa skeletons, museum exterior, Banham, and Fels by User:Rosi Crane and User:Giantflightlessbirds, as part of History of Otago Museum edit-a-thon.
May 2019: Bulk upload of collection images of moa bones, geology specimens, historical objects, and natural history collections by User:Giantflightlessbirds under the supervision of Kane Fleury.

To do

Arrange release into Commons of sunfish images in this blog, to replace the (improperly) uploaded versions.
Start the Wikifying GLAM process for Otago Museum, beginning with photographs of the building and current exhibitions.
Continue upload of Burton Brothers photos of Otago Museum interior and specimens from Te Papa's collection; indicate BOTH out of copyright in the US and in NZ in the metadata.