Digitalisation programme in Brazil

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This programme is a solution to a GLAMs initiatives in Brazil. They start at 2016 with MAV digitalisation project, and expanded already to other museums.

Goal[edit]

Digitalise all Brazilian museums and share their collections via Commons, and extract most of their educational values.

Projects[edit]

Museum of Veterinary Anatomy FMVZ USP[edit]

Objectives
  • Digitalise all ~600 pictures provide by the museum;
  • Find and illustrate articles at Wikipedias with this images;
  • Develop articles related to the museum collection.
Period
June 2016 -
Activities
  • Digitalisation of photos made already by the museum;
    • Post-production of those images to increase their quality;
  • Digitalisation of metadata;
  • Edit-a-thons;
Internal publications
Products

Matemateca[edit]

Objectives

Digitalize and upload to Wikimedia Common all the available collection of Matemateca, the University of São Paulo Museum of Mathematics. (Estimated total: 200-300 objects.)

  • Bring at least 200 QI in the next 6 months;
  • Bring at least 100 VI in the next 6 months;
  • Bring at least 20 FP in the next 6 months;
  • Generate at least 100 usable images for Wikipedia, Wikibooks or Wikiversity.
Period
December 2016 - May 2017
Financed by
Products