The Museum Wiki: A Model for Online Collections in Museums

<p>Museums increasingly use the Internet, digitization, and <strong>social tagging</strong> to publicize their collections in online databases. However, these <strong>online collections</strong> museums frequently lack contextual and interpretive information that objects require to be understood by the general public. Other sources, such as<strong> Wikipedia</strong>, consistently deliver more in-depth information on artworks than museums. <strong>The Museum Wiki</strong> proposes a solution for the <strong>Museum Studies</strong> field to address this information gap by emulating Wikipedia’s framework of interlinked articles for online museum collections. Additionally, this model raises the online visibility of these collections by editing relevant Wikipedia articles with information from articles written for the museum’s collection. These Wikipedia edits are then cited back to the museum website to drive visitors to the collection. The Museum Wiki uses the <strong>Haggin Museum</strong> in Stockton, CA to pilot the project with its collection of <strong>Albert Bierstadt</strong> paintings.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in Museum Studies

Level thesis:degree_level

Project/Capstone - Global access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Museum Studies

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Schlesinger, Morgan

Contributors dc:contributor

• Stephanie Brown
• Paula Birnbaum
• Marjorie Schwarzer

• Museum Studies
• Wikipedia
• The Museum Wiki
• Online Collections
• Social Tagging
• Haggin Museum
• Albert Bierstadt

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/456

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.usfca.edu:capstone-1479