Share Your Knowledge, Part 1: Why?

Cultural institutions own and create contents

that they want to share.

Unfortunately

even though some of this content

have been digitized,

content is not always available

or accessible to everyone.

If all your books and catalogues

have run out

and you don’t have the ressources to republish them,

If your files are badly organised,

and if you have no funds

Maybe you would be interested

in Share Your Knowledge.

To begin on this path,

all you need to do is to release

all your content under the CC-BY-SA license.

This allows other people to distribute, edit, and

create artbooks from the original files,

even for commercial purposes.

The new artwork must also be published

under the same license

and credit the original creator.

Then, through Wikipedia, your knowledge is shared with the world for free.

Here are just two examples:

The German Federal Archive

released lower-resolution images on Wikimedia Commons.

This tripled the number high-resolution images sold by the Archive.

Italy’s Cariplo Foundation has created

and uploaded to Wikipedia

247 Italian and English articles

as well as 854 artists and their works out its art collection.

Share Your Knowledge will help you

to organize your documentation

in an efficient way,

and assist you with planning

how to share all the archives

you will create in the future.

It’s free,

and increases the visibility

of your organization and your content.

So, why not do it?