The Met is excited to make available over 375,000 images of public domain artworks for contribution to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons from the museum’s collection spanning 5,000 years of art. The event is an opportunity for Wikimedia communities to engage The Met's diverse collection onsite and remotely. The event is a key marker too of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's first Wikimedian-in-Residence program, with resident Richard Knipel (User:Pharos), along with Wikimedia NYC. We invite you to help enhance Wikimedia communities and platforms with open access images from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The onsite event required pre-registration. To register, 1) please sign-up with Eventbrite and 2) add your Wikipedia username to the #Participants sign-up below. Please check-in with museum staff when you arrive at the Thomas J. Watson Library within the museum.
Location: Thomas J. Watson Library, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028.
Entrance: The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue opens to the public at 10:00AM EDT. Doors for the event within The Thomas J. Watson Library will open at 10:30AM. Please proceed to the Thomas J. Watson Library (enter via glass doors in Gallery 534) after you have entered The Metropolitan Museum of Art at 82nd and Fifth Avenue and checked any necessary items.
Checking Items: Members of the public and event participants are required to show their laptops to Security at the door upon entering the museum. Laptops and other electronic devices must be carried within museum as Security does not check electronics in coat checks. Please check all jackets, bags and laptop sleeves in the Great Hall North or South coatrooms prior to entering the Thomas J. Watson Library. Backpacks and briefcases within the dimensions of 16 x 16 x 8 inches may be checked with coat check. Bags larger than these dimensions, including luggage, are prohibited and may not be checked. Plastic bags to hold electronic cords, notebooks, pencils, etc. are available for registered participants once in the library. Small lockers are also available in limited amount within the library and are first-come, first-served.
Registration: The onsite event requires pre-registration with EventBrite via The Met's Website. The Thomas J. Watson Library has a capacity of limit of 50 active and present registered onsite participants. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. If you have not arrived by 10:45 AM on Sunday May 21, 2017, your tickets may be released to a wait list. Both onsite and remote participants or this day are encouraged to add their Wikipedia usernames to the #Participants sign-up below.
A wait list will be held for those interested in attending the event after registration has closed. Those on the wait list may be admitted to participate should space be available. If you have arrived at the museum and are unable to participate in the onsite event due to space limitations, we encourage you enjoy the museum after procuring your museum admission. If you can no longer attend, please cancel your ticket registration in advance.
Event Images Policy: By registering for this onsite event, you agree to allow images to be taken of you and your likeness (unless you are wearing a no-photography lanyard), and that these may be used during and following the event. This permission is for publication in all formats, print or digital, worldwide. The use of flash and tripods are prohibited. Only handheld cameras may be used. The recording of video is not permitted.
Participants: The event is open to anyone who wishes to add Met Open Access images of artworks to Wikimedia platforms. No Wikimedia experience necessary. As needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikimedia newcomers.
What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. Light snacks, drinks and cake will be provided. No tripods or large media equipment are be permitted within the museum or Thomas J. Watson Library.
Initial Presentations will be held in Thomas J. Watson Library Reading Room.
Welcome Remarks - Jennie Choi, General Manager of Collections Information Services; Lauren Nemroff, Head of Content, Digital Department; Tony White, Florence and Herbert Irving Associate Chief Librarian, Thomas J. Watson Library
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access Initiative and Digital Resources - Neal Stimler (User:Nealstimler), Program Manager for Content Partnerships, Digital Department
What You Can Do with Over 375,000 Images on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons at GLAM/Metropolitan Museum of Art - Richard Knipel (User:Pharos), Wikimedia NYC
Thomas J. Watson Library GLAM-Wiki Project - William Blueher (User:WilliamDigiCol), Assistant Museum Librarian, Thomas J. Watson Library
Introducing The Wikimedia Edit-A-Thon Tour - Megan Kuensting, Education
Program attendees will also be invited to take a free half-hour tour of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's main building on Fifth Avenue offered concurrent to editing time at 1:00 pm -1:30 pm and 3:00 pm-3:30 pm EDT. The tours will be organized and co-lead by Digital and Education Department staff. The tour will focus on public domain artworks in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and address their respective status on Wikimedia platforms. Tours are first come, first served with prior registration. Tours will be announced to participants at the event and will leave from and return to the Thomas J. Watson Library.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, Naples 1598–1680 Rome); and Pietro Bernini (Italian, 1562–1629).Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children. ca. 1616–17. Marble. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Purchase, The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, Fletcher, Rogers, and Louis V. Bell Funds, and Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, by exchange, 1976. 1976.92.
Here are some citations for this object to assist you in editing:
Dickerson III, C. D., et al. Bernini: Sculpting in Clay. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012
Jones, Bill T., Luke Syson and Jackie Terrassa, Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children. Viewpoints: Body Language. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2015.
White, Veronica. Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. (October 2003)
South Netherlandish. Hunting of Birds with a Hawk and a Bow (from the Hunting Parks Tapestries). ca. 1515–35. Wool and silk thread. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941. 41.190.228.
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, Montauban 1780–1867 Paris). Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie. 1851–53. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. 1975.1.186.
The Met Open Access Artworks Challenge is an international initiative to add Creative Commons Zero images of public domain artworks from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art to new and existing Wikipedia articles. Please visit the Image and Data Resources page on The Metropolitan Museum of Art website for details about The Met Open Access initiative.
The challenge is part of WikiProject Metropolitan Museum of Art and is offered in conjunction with The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Wikimedia Edit-A-Thon. The Met Open Access Art Challenge will feature a points-based contest for contributions to Wikimedia projects about the relevant Met artworks. Prizes will be awarded in the form of Met art guidebooks and publications. The challenge runs from May 15, 2017 through June 30, 2017.
This guide has directions on the various Wikipedia projects, and includes a guide for beginners, guides to Wikipedia markup, adding references, and other tasks.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art acknowledges and thanks the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum for providing the inspiration for its own Edit-a-Thon event, based on its event held in May 2015.[1]
The onsite event requires pre-registration. To register, 1) please sign-up with Eventbrite and 2) add your Wikipedia username to the #Participants sign-up below. Please check-in with museum staff when you arrive at the Thomas J. Watson Library with the museum.
