With ‘Open Access,' the Met Museum’s Digital Operation Has a Bona Fide Hit on Its Hands | artnet News
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Summary:
"But the biggest beneficiary of the photo-sharing program might be Wikimedia. Over 90 percent of the Open Access photographs have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. And since February, there has been a 500 percent increase in new Wikipedia articles featuring photographs from the Met collection, now up to 6,598. The museum recently held its first Wikimedia Edit-a-thon and Met Open Access Art Challenge, adding articles like Hiawatha and Minnehaha, about a pair of busts in the Met collection by pioneering 19th-century African-American sculptor Edmonia Lewis."
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