Wikipedia:GLAM/Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa



The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa) holds broad collections and deep knowledge that reflects the peoples, environment, and history of Aotearoa New Zealand. In the spirit of openness and collective learning that museums and the Wikimedia Foundation share, Te Papa is actively working to contribute to Wikimedia projects.

Te Papa’s Wikimedia work is being done by Digital Channels Outreach Manager Lucy Schrader and several other staff, backed by project sponsorship from Adrian Kingston, Head of Digital Channels and Victoria Leachman, Head of Collection Access.

Contributing staff: read the Staff contribution policy section

Te Papa's Wiki Workplan
Te Papa’s workplan is progressing and gaining momentum. Full details are on the Work Plan tab.

Te Papa's goals are
 * to increase contributions of Te Papa-created content, research, and expertise in various Wikimedia Foundation projects
 * to increase engagement focusing on local and national communities, both online and on-site
 * to develop a strategic and sustainable approach that contributes to Wikipedia's goals of making knowledge free, open and accessible for all

Te Papa will be using the newly published GLAMR (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums & Records) training programme for GLAMR organisations wanting to engage with Wikimedia Foundation projects that has been developed by Wikipedia Australia. It includes presentation notes and slides for Wikipedia and Wikidata.

Te Papa's Collections and Research
Since 1865, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa has been gathering a collection of some two million items including objects and scientific specimens.

From its days as a tiny Colonial Museum located behind Wellington's Parliament buildings, to the Dominion Museum and National Art Gallery building located on the hill rise on Buckle Street, and now settled on the Wellington waterfront in Cable Street and in a number of other offsite buildings, Te Papa has increased and added to its collection.

Each collection item has significance and meaning, providing information to help interpret, understand, and illuminate the history of Aotearoa and its peoples.


 * Collections Online provides access to over 1,000,000 collection records, and over 330,000 images.
 * Te Papa Collections API provides programmatic access to collection data and images
 * Tuhinga is the research journal of Te Papa and provides openly licensed peer-reviewed academic journal articles on original collections-based research on natural sciences and humanities.
 * Te Papa provides other public openly licensed datasets via data.govt.nz

Te Papa's Open Images and Copyright
Where there isn’t a reason to restrict access or reuse of images of collection items such as copyright or the protection of Mātauranga Māori, Te Papa aims to use open licenses.

Broadly speaking, scans and images exactly reproducing 2D works that are out of New Zealand copyright are available using a No Known Copyright Restrictions statement. For works marked up by Te Papa as No Known Copyright Restrictions reuse is unrestricted, though to add them to Wikimedia Commons they must also be in the public domain in the USA. Te Papa uses the Cornell University Public Domain Guide to determine whether works have this designation before uploading them to Wikimedia Commons.

Images of scientific specimens taken by Te Papa staff are usually licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). These images can be used if they are properly attributed and the license kept intact, including on Wikimedia Commons.

Other collection images have a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY NC-ND), or may be All Rights Reserved. In these cases the image will not meet Wikimedia Commons copyright clearance requirements.

Wikimedia Commons has a public domain metadata template for New Zealand, and one to indicate that a digital image is a faithful scan of a public-domain original. These should be used together when uploading a Public Domain scan.

To work out whether an item is in the public domain in the United States, use The Cornell University Copyright and Public Domain table. The public domain metadata template for the United States is the most general US public domain template. .

Te Papa's Wikimedia Commons category
Images of Te Papa Collections

Wikidata
A Mix n Match set of Te Papa agents (party records) is available to play with.

Te Papa regularly grabs confirmed matches, adding the Wikidata identifiers to our collection management system and letting us display the links on Collections Online.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE9ZvwYCNnQ Want to do some matching? Watch the how-to video on YouTube]