Exciting news for those who have cultural heritage collection content they are able to share freely. Jan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Kurilecz <peter.kurilecz@gmail.com> Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:12 PM Subject: [archives] Walters Museum uploads 19,000 photos to Wikimedia Commons — Wikimedia blog To: "Archives & Archivists (A&A) List" <archives@forums.archivists.org> Walters Museum uploads 19,000 photos to Wikimedia Commons — Wikimedia blog The Walters Art Museum <http://thewalters.org/> in Baltimore, Maryland, has donated more than 19,000 freely-licensed images<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Walters_Art_Museum>of artworks to Wikimedia Commons <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>. The Walters’ collection includes ancient art, medieval art and manuscripts, decorative objects, Asian art and Old Master and 19th-century paintings. The images and their associated information will join our collection of more than 12 million freely usable media files, which serves as the repository for the 285 language editions of Wikipedia. ‬ http://bit.ly/Jcj5d4 Source: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/08/walters-museum-uploads-19000-photos-to-wikimedia-commons/ See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/Jcj5d4+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA peter.kurilecz@gmail.com Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o The ARCHIVES & ARCHIVISTS (A&A) LIST is sponsored by the Society of American Archivists. The opinions expressed on the A&A List do not necessarily represent those of SAA and are not endorsed by the Society. To post to the list, send messages to archives@forums.archivists.org. To unsubscribe or to modify your subscription settings, log in at: http://www.archivists.org/listservs/change.asp To read the list archives: September 2006 to Present: http://forums.archivists.org/read/?forum=archives April 1993 to September 2006: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html To view the A&A List Terms of Participation, visit: http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp A&A List Coordinator: Meghan Petersen mpetersen@archivists.org