Wikipedia:GLAM/Israel Museum, Jerusalem/Events

Wikimania 2011
Held in Haifa, Israel, The Information Center for Israeli Art lectured at the Wikimania conference opening up a conversation on collaborations between Israeli museums and Wiki via GLAM. The lecture was entitled: "Transparency: The Art of Information Sharing - Museum Artist files on Wikipedia" (submission here. It was a wonderful way to open the floor to the Wikipedians in the lecture to share in the task of documenting art from Israel and specifically Israeli artists catalogued at the Information Center for Israeli Art at The Israel Museum.

What is an artist file?

An artist file consists of material relating to an individual artist. These files are among the most valued and heavily used resources in art research facilities. They include all relevant information pertaining to the artist - artwork, bibliographical information, education, artwork, exhibitions, reviews, newspaper clippings and much more.

The Information Center for Israeli Art at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem has catalogued Israeli artists' information since 1975. As of April 2010 the physical files have been moved into a digital environment and are accessible via the in-house database. This bilingual Hebrew and English database provides limited accessibility as only by visiting the museum can you explore the full wealth of material. To date the Israeli art database consists of 12,000 Israeli artists with over 4500 linked works of art, thousands of newspaper articles, 13,000 exhibition invitations, 700 videos and a listing of thousands of published catalogues and books referencing each artist.

With the help of a joint project between the Information Center for Israeli Art and Wikipedia it became be possible to:
 * Create a Wikipedia page for over 50 Israeli Artists in Hebrew and English. In addition over 300 images of Israeli artwork were uploaded to WikiCommons.
 * Harness the symbiotic relationship between the Information Center for Israeli Art and Wikipedia, allowed the wiki pages to be updated by many hands, a task which would not be possible with the manpower of a single museum, and create an even more accurate listing for Israel artists.
 * The collaborative resulting information from the wikipages was returned into the Information Center for Israeli Art database, confirmed and preserved in addition to translated into Hebrew or English where necessary.
 * The above project were facilitated through both technical tools as well as community-facing events/activities.

See here some of the photos below as well as a link to the filmed proceedings.

2011 Past events

 * September 21 2011: IMJ staff writing workshop with Yair Talmor, the IMJ Wikipedian-in-residence, training museum staff and volunteers on how to use Wikipedia for the joint project with the Information Center Israeli Art

November 16, 2011, Wikipedia and GLAM at the 8th "Digital Heritage Conference" EVA/Minerva 2011, Jerusalem

 * 16 November 2011: GLAM IMJ at the 8th "Digital Heritage Conference" in Jerusalem, 11:00-13:00, at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Wikipedia and GLAM Projects - How galleries, libraries, archives and museums work with Wikipedia & Wikimedia to share knowledge. Chair: Dr. Allison Kupietzky, Collections Database Manager and Head of the Information Center for Israeli Art
 * How to change the world while still in your slippers - Wikipedia, Wikimedia and the free content movement - Tomer Ashur, Chairman, Wikimedia Israel. This presentation will elaborate on the structure of Wikimedia as a free content movement and its synergy with various projects such as Wikipedia.
 * Wikimedia's Outreach Project - from Africa to GLAM - Shani Evenstine, GLAM IMJ Project Coordinator, Wikimedia Israel. This lecture will offer a general review of various outreach projects, focusing on GLAM projects around the world and presenting GLAM projects in Israel.
 * Israeli Art on Wikipedia as part of the GLAM IMJ Project - Dr. Allison Kupietzky, Head of the Information Center for Israeli Art, IMJ; Yair Talmor, Wikipedian-in-Residence, IMJ Project. A joint project between the Information Center for Israeli Art and Wikipedia has created a new interactive environment and resource for information on Israeli art.
 * Working Together - The National Library and Wikipedia - Ido Ivri, Manager of Digital Programs, the National Library of Israel. The lecture will describe the National Library of Israel's initiative for providing access to a historic collection of 3,000 photographs, by making it accessible on Wikipedia, the benefits of the process to the general public, what the National Library gains and possible implications on the digitization and licensing processes.

Wikimania 2012
Held at the George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C., The Information Center for Israeli Art particpated on Friday, July 13, 2012 in a GLAM Outreach session entitled: Wiki, Women and Museums: The makings of a successful GLAM-WIKI project (submission here).

In support of our goal of sharing the archives and photos from the Israel Museum we have been working alongside Wikimedia to make our collections available online.

During the Wikimania Haifa 2011 conference we presented our hopes and dreams for the GLAM-WIKI project at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. We are pleased to report back on the many levels of success which resulted from this collaboration. The Information Center for Israeli Art at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem was the focus of the project with our goal of creating 50 articles on Israeli artists in Hebrew and English. In addition over 300 images of Israeli artwork were uploaded to WikiCommons.

A unique aspect of the project turned out to be the many women involved, an involvement which took many forms. First, the project was run by women on both the Museum end (myself) and Wikimedia Israel end (Shani Evenstine, who served as the project coordinator and contact person with the museum); the center staff and volunteers were mostly women, many of whom are retirees. Women from the Israeli Wikpedia community were involved and contributed to the project, as well as new women interested in the project from the public. The women artists' wiki-articles were an added bonus. In short women shined! While these milestones were part of the project goals, there were many unexpected successes that can be noted:


 * The international activity around the project – we worked with our colleagues in Wikimedia in Hong Kong, Kenya, America, Holland, Austria, just to name a few!
 * New Wikipedia articles created in many languages (for example Larry Abramson has been translated into 7 languages - English, Hebrew, German, Dutch, Chinese, Russian, and recently -- Swahili!)
 * Increase in virtual visitor traffic to newly created Israeli art Wiki pages
 * Greater accessibility and reach via Wikipedia links for the Information Center for Israeli Art database leading to much increased awareness of the Israeli art project among world-wide Wikipedia editors
 * Joint events between the IMJ and Wikipedia including Yair Talmor as a Wikipedian-in-Residence, a "Behind the Scenes" tour at the Israel Museum and an "Edit-a-thon" where the Information Center for Israeli Art archives were perused by local Wikipedia editor.

See here some of the photos below as well as a link to the filmed proceedings. In addition the speech was noted in the article entiteld Geek Feminism Wiki - Women at Wikimania 2012.

2012 BBC Interivew
So excited to see an article entitled Wikipedia: Meet the men and women who write the articles where Allison Kupietzky is interviewed. When asked what were her motivation for writing in Wikipedia she answered "Improving Wikipedia's coverage of the Israel Museum and giving people the opportunity to learn about things that are not connected to the political differences here."

EVA / MINERVA 2012
During November 2012, during the session on Open Cultural Heritage Projects & Wikipedia at the Jerusalem Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Dr. Allison Kupietzky & Yair Talmor [Wiki in Residence] spoke of GLAM-Wiki Study Cases - Best Practices at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The session was chaired by Shani Evenstein. The lecture focused on GLAM and The Israel Museum involvement in the "Wiki Loves" photography competition and was entitled *Wiki Loves Everyone (and Monuments)".

The Museum was one of the sponsors of the Wiki Loves Monuments project: an international photography competition, open to the general public. The Israel Museum viewed this as an opportunity to give impetus to the project of documenting Israeli art in the public space, and it urged the public to participate in the Museum's efforts to preserve and disseminate the country's art treasures. This opportunity will enabled amateur photographers to capture and preserve works of art in public spaces – on city streets, in public gardens, in public institutions – and at the same time to offer an up to date picture of the condition of these monuments in order to encourage their preservation and renovation. In this way, participants became partners in the work of The Israel Museum's Information Center for Israeli Art. The list of environmental sculptures and cultural heritage sites throughout Israel was compiled by a team of curators and staff from the Information Center with a focus on the 2000 artists whose works are represented in the Museum's collections.

The presentation if available here.

May 30, 2013, "Wiki Loves Public Art in Israel"
As part of the GLAM IMJ events, the Information Center for Israeli Art at the Israel Museum, organized a tour of public art in Holon. The tour was led by Yair Talmor from the Information Center for Israeli Art, and gave the public an opportunity to join the photography contest of "Wiki Loves Public Art".

The contest details are noted here.

One of the most positive outcomes of our involvement in the three "Wiki Loves" photography contests was the creation by the Information Center for Israeli Art of a List of public art in Israel. The list is based on the Information Center research and we hope will serve as the basis for a more complete list as more information and image continue to be added to the list all the time.

Our involvement in Wiki Loves Monuments in Israel, the sister photography contest, continued from 2012 through 2014.

Europeana Fashion Marathon Challenge - Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon
Editorial Marathon hosted in Holon Institute of Technology and include two events:

This includes an introduction to Europeana - Fashion and partnerships with community Glam - Wiki - Lecturer: Marco Brandi, Project Coordinator Europeana - Fashion (lecture in English).
 * Part I: Fashion Europeana, Wikipedia and Wiki Projects - Thursday, the 14/11/13

For fashion design students, faculty and interested general public. Included a Wikipedia editing workshop for beginners and advanced Wikipedians. Participants included staff from the Information Center for Israeli Art from Israel Museum, Jerusalem alongside Bezalel Academy staff and Academic staff from Shenkar Institute.
 * Part Two: Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon Workshop - Wednesday, the 20/11/13

Link to images of artwork donated to Wiki Commons as part of the workshop (in Hebrew).

Wikimania 2014
Held at the Barbican Centre in London, the Information Center for Israeli Art particpated on Friday, August 8, 2014 in a panel entitled: "F" for Fashion: Our Joint GLAM-WIKI Efforts in Collaboration with Europeana-Fashion (submission details here).

In support of our goal of sharing the archives and photos from the Israel Museum we have been working alongside Wikimedia and Europeana Fashion to make our collections available online. The collections can now be explored via the Europeana Fashion portal and a number  new fashion realted articles on Wikipedia. See for example: Lola Beer Ebner, Baruch Agadati and we added some details to these: Ikat, Tzniut, Bukharan Jews.

The panel at the conference brought together the MoMu – Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, The Israel Museum Jerusalem and Wikimedia chapters from Israel, Italy and Sweden. Europeana Fashion has also published a handbook about organising fashion edit-a-thons.

See us in some of the photos here and the filmed proceedings here.

GLAMTLV2018
Talk: Israeli Outdoor Art in Wikidata: Applicable and Re-Usable Data

Dr. Allison Kupietzky, Yair Talmor

Affiliation: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

The Information Center for Israeli Art (an extension of the Israel Museum) is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of Israeli Art. Over 13,000 artists' files are housed in the Center in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Currently we have 20,000 linked works of art. We treat this database as an extension of the galleries – keeping up with standards and maintaining accurate bilingual data. With the help of Wikidata, we hope to parse the data so that it can be better managed and the information can be harnessed for secondary uses within maps and applications. Examples of such uses can be already found in Crotos and Histropedia. Additionally, the resulting data would allow for smart queries using SPARQL endpoints that would support mapping, with the goal of creating fluid applications for the public and tourists. The promised SPARQL query This project has been completed with the help of Maarten Dammers.

Below are links to YouTube clips of a think tank meeting where our interns were tasked with defining the impact of linking data and social participation:

Noa: Educators as user Why How Results

Esther: Tourists as user Why How Results

Talia: Researchers as user Why How Results

Israeli Outdoor Art in Wikidata: Applicable and Re-Usable Data

Link to filmed proceedings

Wiki Editing 2019 - Into Many Languages!!
Today, 10.7.2019, at the Israel Museum we hosted Curatorial Studies students. Their task was to edited and translate a few articles into many languages including: ChiShona, Bulgarian and Italian. The day began with an overview of how to build a Wiki user name and some tools to know for translating. We then began to work on our Israeli artists articles.

Welcome new Wiki users:
 * 1)  (Italian, English) - IMJ Intern 2019
 * 2)  (Italian, English, Bulgarian) - IMJ Intern 2019
 * 3)  (English, Afrikaans) - IMJ Intern 2019
 * 4) (Italian, English, Vèneto) - IMJ Intern 2019
 * 5) (Zimbabwean, English, Shona) - IMJ Intern 2019

Here are some images from the day

Information Center for Israeli Art Volunteers Edit Wikipedia 2021
During the Covid lockdown the dedicated group of Volunteers at the Information Center for Israeli Art at the Israel Museum, have begun to work on zoom with Dr. Allison Kupietzky to create and edit Wikipedia articles on Israeli Art. The project began 6.1.2021, and focused on: WIKI GLAM IMJ -  List of artists edited by Susan Lazinger, see list (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Israel_Museum,_Jerusalem/Israeli_Artist_Files here)

First lesson
Steps to begin:
 * Word files prepared - with template for artists and data from IAC database
 * Login - signing up as an editors
 * View first article we created together [] and beginning to edit using square bracket to make links come alive!

Group homework
 * 1. In the article on Tala Ziv - what is the correct English spelling of her name, how would you check? One way is to call her...If someone calls her can they request a photo to add to article?
 * 2. In the article see term "Nachshonim Forest". Should this be a new term in Wikipedia or is the term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahshonim talking about the same place? See if an article exists on this place in Hebrew, if yes, the new page can be linked to the Hebrew one for Nachshonim Forest?

Make sure to let us know your Wiki user name and which artist / language you chose from document. Watch lesson on Youtube.

Second lesson

 * 1.	Signed up and add your names here, Example: Nathanya
 * 2.	[First article] add more research and images
 * 3.	See new [article upload] from Sara and Jackie
 * 4.	Learn about sourcing and images - References, Reflist, External links

Third lesson

 * 1.	The final meet - I hope it was enjoyable and not too frustrating. Please share with each of us your successes!
 * 2.	Translating articles: see example here
 * 3.	Uploading images - demonstration
 * 4.	Review articles group published:


 * Tala Ziv see draft
 * טלה זיו
 * Moshe Spitzer
 * Shlomit Haber-Schaim
 * שלומית הבר-שיים
 * Alfons Himmelreich see draft