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Reaching the World Through Free Licenses and Wikimedia’s Crowdsourced Platforms

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Wars and disasters, negligence and poor maintenance mean that much of our immovable cultural heritage is at risk of being lost forever. Interest and knowledge is needed to avoid its destruction. The Connected Open Heritage project will work to gather as much information as possible about cultural heritage from countries all over the world and connect it in a standardized and structured form on Wikidata, a project that is operated by the Wikimedia movement. It will connect the structured data with historical images from digitized collections from archives and museums and with freely licensed modern images and other types of media gathered by volunteers and other organizations. The Connected Open Heritage is a project by Wikimedia Sverige, UNESCO, Cultural Heritage without Borders and Wikimedia Italia, and financed by the Culture Foundation of the Swedish Postcode Lottery.

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  1. Wikimedia Sverige, Stockholm, Sweden

    John Andersson

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  1. Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus

    Marinos Ioannides

  2. Arlington, Virginia, USA

    Eleanor Fink

  3. School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Antonia Moropoulou

  4. Institut für Museumsforschung, Berlin, Germany

    Monika Hagedorn-Saupe

  5. Promoter s.r.l., Peccioli, Italy

    Antonella Fresa

  6. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Gunnar Liestøl

  7. Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Vlatka Rajcic

  8. INSA, Strasbourg, France

    Pierre Grussenmeyer

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Andersson, J. (2016). Reaching the World Through Free Licenses and Wikimedia’s Crowdsourced Platforms. In: Ioannides, M., et al. Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection. EuroMed 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10059. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48974-2_5

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