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