GLAM/Newsletter/January 2017/Contents/Norway report
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Immigration of images and #faktajakt
Image donation from The National Archive and the immigration of images
The National Archives of Norway have uploaded 5300 images to Wikimedia Commons for public use. The images are from different parts of the collections mostly from the image archives collected by different governmental agencies, such as the Lighthouse board, Department of Corrections and the Ports department. In addition there are also images from private archives, Billedbladet NÅ (a pictorial magasine).
The images are not just confined to Norway, there is also some interesting international images, for example a small collection by Bodil Biørn, who lived in the border area between Turkey and Armenia before and after the Armenian genocide.
For the National Archives Wikimedia Commons is a interesting way to reach a broader audience and enthusiastic Wikimedia volunteers are a good source of metadata that our own curators would never have the time to find. For example where a Wikimedia user have gone through a large part of the collection identifying the correct aircraft types. And a collection of early colour photographs from Norway and Germany in 1937 where a German user have painstakingly placed the images in correct geographical categories, some of them even down to the correct street corner.
The images was uploaded from the National Archives' Fotostation database by Riksbot, robot programmed in Python inhouse by National Archives staff. The upload has also highlighted a need for the National Archives to standardise the metadata in their own database and further uploads will happen after that job has been finished.
#faktajakt - the Norwegian edition of #1lib1ref
Wikimedia Norge partcipated in #1lib1ref with our own Norwegian edition, namely #faktajakt. With the help of the translated citation hunt-tool in Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk our intern, Sabine Rønsen from The Oslo and Akershus Univeristy College of Applied Sciences did a great job with outreach to libraries. We kicked #faktajakt off with an article on Wikipedia, sources and #faktajakt in the national journal for librarians, Bibliotekaren. After the article was published we were contacted by a county library to hold a workshop on #faktajakt in March. In total 90 citations were added to Wikipedia. Rønsen is now writing a new article to sum up the results and her experience as a new editor at Wikipedia.
