Cultural institutions own and create contents
that they want to share.
Unfortunately
even though some of this content
have been digitized,
content is not always available
or accessible to everyone.
If all your books and catalogues
have run out
and you don’t have the ressources to republish them,
If your files are badly organised,
and if you have no funds
Maybe you would be interested
in Share Your Knowledge.
To begin on this path,
all you need to do is to release
all your content under the CC-BY-SA license.
This allows other people to distribute, edit, and
create artbooks from the original files,
even for commercial purposes.
The new artwork must also be published
under the same license
and credit the original creator.
Then, through Wikipedia, your knowledge is shared with the world for free.
Here are just two examples:
The German Federal Archive
released lower-resolution images on Wikimedia Commons.
This tripled the number high-resolution images sold by the Archive.
Italy’s Cariplo Foundation has created
and uploaded to Wikipedia
247 Italian and English articles
as well as 854 artists and their works out its art collection.
Share Your Knowledge will help you
to organize your documentation
in an efficient way,
and assist you with planning
how to share all the archives
you will create in the future.
It’s free,
and increases the visibility
of your organization and your content.
So, why not do it?