Iriarte Carretero, I; Evans, J; Orr, S; (2021) Preliminary proposal of a metric for assessing and improving the impact of open-access heritage collections on Wikipedia. In: Archiving 2021: Expanding Connections Across Digital Cultural Heritage.

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Abstract

Institutions are increasingly moving toward providing access to collections digitally through open-access initiatives. Measuring this impact and providing metrics to benchmark progress remains an open challenge. This project aims to tackle part of this challenge, focusing on digitized image collections made available via Wikimedia. This work in progress is attempting to create a generalizable and consistent metric which can be used to maximize the potential impact of featuring an image from a collection within a certain Wikipedia entry. The metric considers several quantitative elements that represent specific aspects of impact and is demonstrated for a collection of landscape painting. We focus on impact through a public engagement lens, optimizing our metric to drive an increase in the number of people interacting with items in a collection. Future work will explore more advanced NLP methods and different collection types.

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