Wikipedia:GLAM/Cleveland Museum of Art

Welcome to WikiProject Cleveland Museum of Art on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio. This includes articles directly related to the museum, as well as any artworks or artists in the Museum's collections.

This project is part of the worldwide GLAM efforts.

Scope - Background - Initiatives - Upcoming Activities - Resources - Statistics - Acknowledgements

40,000+ Commons images

62,000+ Wikidata items

 articles on CMA paintings

 articles on CMA sculptures

The project's goals include editing, enhancing and creating new articles, multimedia, and metadata related to:


 * 1) The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA)
 * 2) Notable artworks, artifacts, and other items in the CMA's collection
 * 3) Notable artists and historic figures who have significant presence in the CMA's collection
 * 4) Art genres from across the world's cultures represented in the CMA collection



On January 23, 2019, the Cleveland Museum of Art announced its conversion into an Open Access institution. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication was assigned for the Museum's images and data.

"At the Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access means the public now has the ability to share, collaborate, remix, and reuse images of as many as 30,000 public- domain artworks from the CMA’s world-renowned collection of art for commercial and non-commercial purposes. In addition, portions of collections information (metadata) for more than 61,000 artworks, both in the public domain and those works with copyright or other restrictions, works are now available."

In June 2019, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Ohio Wikimedians User Group, and Neal Stimler (who had previously led the implementation of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access program) started collaborating to start this WikiProject dedicated to improving Wikipedia with photos provided by the CMA, as well as improving articles related to the Museum, its artworks, and artists featured prominently in its collections.

Create articles on items in CMA's collection
 * There are currently  articles on items in CMA's collection. Our goal is to create more articles on notable works in the collection. Refer to CMA's Open Access Highlights for potential article subjects. Also refer to this Wikidata table for non-English articles on works in CMA's collection that can be translated to English.


 * Created an article? Add it to our list so we can track our progress.

Create articles on Ohio artists
 * There are currently  articles on artists from Ohio. Our goal is to create more articles on notable artists from Ohio, and in particular, those featured in CMA's Collection.


 * Created an article? Add it to our list so we can track our progress.

Improve Wikidata listings
 * There are thousands of Wikidata items for works in CMA's collection. Check out the CMA WikiProject on Wikidata for a comprehensive overview of items, their property coverage, and what items have entries across all Wikimedia projects. These items can be improved by adding and expanding descriptions in various languages, as well as expanding with new properties, including what each painting depicts.

On-going
 * None

Past
 * Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access Anniversary Campaign — January 23, 2020, is the one-year anniversary of the Cleveland Museum of Art's Open Access program. To celebrate, we are hosting an editing campaign (with postcard souvenirs!) through February 9. Help expand and create articles related to the Cleveland Museum of Art (including artists and artworks featured in their collection), and receive a postcard from the Museum. If you'd like to participate, check out the task list and sign up on the event page.

Potential
 * Asian Month sub-contest
 * Art+Feminism in March
 * Women in Red initiative

Project templates

 * WikiProject Cleveland Museum of Art
 * CMA-invite
 * User WP GLAM CMA
 * CMA Barnstar
 * CMA-stub
 * Wikimedia Commons template: Institution:Cleveland Museum of Art

One Year Anniversary Statistics
One year after the Cleveland Museum of Art launched its Open Access initiative, we have the following statistics to share:
 * Over 62,000 Wikidata items with CMA accession numbers.
 * The 80 millionth Wikidata item, Q80000000, represents a medal from the CMA's collection commemorating the 300th anniversary of the purchase of Manhattan Island.
 * Over 40,000 images of CMA artworks on the Wikimedia Commons, representing 28,170 unique artworks.
 * CMA scans and photographs have been used to illustrate Wikipedia articles in over 25 languages.
 * Turner's The Burning of the Houses of Parliament alone is used in 28 articles in 17 different language editions of Wikipedia.
 * On the English Wikipedia, the most popular article that features a CMA artwork is Hedgehog, featuring the Hedgehog amulet from Egypt.


 * The Cleveland Museum of Art for implementing their Open Access program and collaborating with Wikimedians
 * Neal Stimler for consulting on The Cleveland Museum of Art's Open Access program and coordinating the organization of this WikiProject
 * Multichill, Fuzheado, and Madreiling for their work in transferring CMA materials to the Commons.
 * Additional acknowledgement to Mulitchill for setting up CMA with the Sum of All Paintings on Wikidata, and Fuzheado for setting up The Distributed Game
 * WikiProject Metropolitan Museum of Art (and Pharos' work on the project) for serving as a basis for which to base this project off of