Translations:Wikimedia-platformen als toeleiding tot en verrijking van het archief van DE SINGEL/9/en

Uploading digital archive to Wikimedia Commons

DE SINGEL has provided access to lots of born-digital and digitised archive content on its own website. This online archive provides valuable contextual information, both for people who want some background information for the current programme and for visitors to the website who might be looking for historical information for any other reason. In order to reach a wider audience than just the people visiting DE SINGEL's website, the arts centre opted to publish archive content for which it, as an organisation, is the sole rightsholder under a free Creative Commons licence (CC BY 4.0). It then uploaded this content to Wikimedia Commons, which is the Wikimedia Foundation's media database for images, video and audio covered by a free licence or in the public domain. DE SINGEL followed the method already used by lots of museums for this: making data and digital reproductions of collection items available as openly as possible. DE SINGEL also see this as its public service and hopes it will generate added extra visibility, both for artists who appear at DE SINGEL and for the organisation itself. Three sub-collections were identified within the archive content which are suitable for upload to Wikimedia Commons: