Digitalisation programme in Brazil

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