Sharing the ASCL photo collection on Wikimedia Commons: what’s in for whom

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dc.audienceAudience::Academic and Research Libraries Sectionen_US
dc.contributor.authorOberst, Ursula
dc.coverage.spatialLocation::Netherlandsen_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-17T17:30:33Z
dc.date.available2023-11-17
dc.date.available2023-11-17T17:30:33Z
dc.date.issued2023-11-17
dc.description.abstractThe African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) is a knowledge institute that undertakes research and is involved in teaching about Africa. It aims to promote the dissemination of knowledge and better understanding of African societies in the wider public sphere. Since 2015 the ASCL library has been uploading copyright cleared Africa photographs of its collection to Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia’s media repository. It thus makes them usable across all Wiki projects, as well as accessible at no cost to the general public. The ASCL Collection in Wikimedia Commons now contains well over 6,000 images. It comprises, among others, photos captured by Roel Coutinho during his work as a medical doctor in the liberated areas of Guinea-Bissau, in 1973 and 1974 as well as images taken by anthropologist Sjoerd Hofstra among the Poro and Mende in Sierra Leone in 1934 and 1935. The poster sketches the benefits of contributing to Wikimedia Commons for the ASCL library and libraries in general, the Wikimedia community as well as the depicted African societies.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://2023.ifla.org/poster-sessions/
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/3094
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries88th IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC), 2023 Rotterdam;Poster Sessions
dc.rights.holderUrsula Obersten_US
dc.rights.licenseCC BY 4.0en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.subjectSubject::Knowledge sharingen_US
dc.subjectSubject::Photographic materialsen_US
dc.subjectSubject::Photographsen_US
dc.subjectSubject::Librariesen_US
dc.titleSharing the ASCL photo collection on Wikimedia Commons: what’s in for whomen_US
dc.typeFlagship Publicationsen_US
dc.typePostersen_US
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