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This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue V, May 2016

Netherlands report

Colonial images; Coutinho collection; Open Cultural Data; Netherlands and the world; NL Art History challenge

Colonial images donated by Leiden University Library / Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies

In 2016, Leiden University Library and Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) donated 3114 high resolution mainly nineteenth and early twentiest century photographs and works of art to Wikimedia Commons in a partnership with Wikimedia. The 2805 photographs show Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, China, and Suriname. The 309 artworks depict people, landscapes, plantations, plants and butterflies of Suriname and landscapes of Indonesia.

This donation is a sequel to their 2015 donation of 2418 colonial photographs, mainly of Indonesia and India.^{[note 1]}

Leiden University Library, which presently manages the source image database media-kitlv.nl, has made this donation possible in practice. The uploads were performed by Hans Muller using the GLAMwiki Toolset software.

↑ Leiden University Libraries donates 2400 historical photos of Asia to Wikimedia, website Leiden University Libraries, 19-06-2015

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Mandarins in a boat, China, 1604. Baptista van Doetechum
"Observatoire de Peking", 1736. J. van der Spyk
Jade Girl Peak, Nine Bend River, Wuyi Mountains, circa 1871
Chinese money changers, probably in China, circa 1900
Mount Merapi (Gunung Merapi), Java. Franz Junghuhn and C.W. Mieling, 1853-1854
Collecting birds' nests east of Rankop, Java. Franz Junghuhn and C.W. Mieling, circa 1855
Teukoe with bride, Aceh, circa 1880
Burning of natural gases at an oil drilling site, presumably at Pangkalan Brandan, East Coast of Sumatra, circa 1905. C.J. Kleingrothe
Ox carts, Bamboo Avenue, Belawan company, Deli, Sumatra, 1905. C.J. Kleingrothe
Lake Toba, Haranggaul, Sumatra, circa 1905. C.J. Kleingrothe
Post and telegraph office, Medan, Sumatra, circa 1905. C.J. Kleingrothe
Tobacco plant and leaf, Deli, Sumatra, circa 1905. C.J. Kleingrothe
Victoria Theatre and Memorial Hall, Singapore, circa 1900
Chinese locksmith in Singapore, circa 1900. Lambert & Co., G.R.
Photographer Julius E. Muller, Paramaribo, circa 1885
Steenbakkerijstraat, Paramaribo, circa 1899
Butterfly orange Markée Surinam c. 1763
"Plantation niggers", Bray & Petit, Surinam 1850
View of the Waterkant and roadstead of Paramaribo. Gerard Voorduin and Jacob Heemskerck, 1860-1862
Plantation Catharina Sophia Suriname 1878
Woman. Borret, Suriname, c. 1880

Coutinho collection: photographs from Guinea-Bissau and Senegal, 1973-1974

In 2016 Roel Coutinho (on Dutch wikipedia), MD, donated 752 photographs and slides made by him in the course of his medical work in Guinea-Bissau and Senegal in 1973 and 1974, during the final year of the war of independence waged by the PAIGC resistance movement against Portugal.

The donation includes images of daily life, dance and parties, hospitals, further medical interest, PAIGC soldiers and weapons, open air people's shops and schools. Jos Damen of the Dutch African Studies Centre organised this donation, Michele Portatadino took care of the metadata and Hans Muller uploaded the images to Wikimedia Commons using the GLAMwiki Toolset.

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Vaccination against cholera in Senegal, 1973
Suturing the wound after an surgical operation, Sara, Guinea-Bissau, 1974
Primary school in the liberated regions in Guinea-Bissau, 1973
PAIGC soldiers near a downed Portuguese militaary aircraft, 1974
Armed escort carrying a wounded soldier to the Senegalese border, 1974
Morning roll call of PAIGC soldiers in Hermangono, Guinea-Bissau, 1974

Open Cultural Data presents at Wikimuseums

On May 6th Maarten Brinkerink of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision presented at the Wikimuseums conference in Napels on behalf of the Open Cultural Data project. The presentation covered the work of Open Cultural Data in promoting the open data way of working among cultural institutions. It also dealt with the current (March 2016) statistics for availability of Dutch cultural heritage materials on Wikimedia Commons and the combined reach of these collections. Some higlights:

Dutch cultural heritage collections make up for almost 3% of the total number of files available on Wikimedia Commons
Over 110.000 pages on Wikimedia projects contain material from Dutch cultural heritage collections
In March 2016 alone, these 110.000 pages were viewed over 155 million times

The full presentation can be found here.

Netherlands and the world

New Amsterdam, Manhattan, New York, by Johannes Vingboons (1664)

Over the centuries the Netherlands have developed close ties with many countries through trade and colonialism. Shared cultural heritage has evolved in the Netherlands and in these countries. The Dutch involvement with other countries has left traces like art and artefacts, archives, buildings, cities, companies, infrastructure, language, culinary tradition, both in these countries and in the Netherlands. Many collections in GLAM institutions in the Netherlands and these countries show this shared past and the way two cultures influenced each other.

With the project “The Netherlands and the world” Wikimedia Nederland wants to increase free access to knowledge about such shared cultural heritage. And we want to stimulate active participation of GLAM partners and the Wikimedia community, both in the Netherlands and in other countries. We want to develop partnerships and activities, with Wikipedians and Wikimedians worldwide and with knowledge and heritage institututions that want to share and connect relevant collections.

The project is in the start-up phase. We are open to all ideas about activities we can organise, about how the project should be designed or which contacts/ partners are indispensable for this project. We will form an international project group. If you, your organisation, your chapter, thematic organisation or user group is interested in taking part, please let us know.

There is a project page on the Wiki of Wikimedia Nederland.

For more information about the project: contact project coordinator Elisabeth Wiessner wiessnerwikimedia.nl

Netherlands in the Europeana Art History challenge

Though there were not many Dutch participants, the Netherlands gained 36 articles in the 280 Europeana Art History challenge that ran from 15 April - 30 May, 2016. For an overview of the articles about the 10 Dutch artworks and the articles about the other 280 artworks of other countries of various Wikipedia language projects, see here.

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