Commons:Fashion Edit-a-thons

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Europeana Fashion[edit]

Europeana Fashion is a best practice network of 22 partners which represent the leading European institutions and collections in the fashion domain. The consortium is aggregating and providing to Europeana the most outstanding and rich materials about the history of European fashion, including more than 700.000 fashion-and costume-related digital objects, such as historical dresses to accessories, photographs, posters, drawings, sketches, videos, fashion catalogues, and more.

Its multilingual thesaurus has been made available in 11 languages: English, Dutch, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Greek, Swedish and Serbian.

Fashion Edit-a-thon Watermark

Connections between Europeana Fashion and Wikimedia[edit]

Content donations[edit]

As part of the preparation of any edit-a-thon event, content partners were asked to provide a selection of materials that they selected to be published on Europeana Fashion to Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia articles require content to be published there in order to be embeddable. The category now holds 1,987 media files uploaded by partner museums to Wikimedia Commons. Additionally, 289 photographs illustrate the series of edit-a-thons that took place across Europe.

Editathons[edit]

Europeana Fashion organized twelve edit-a-thons in nine countries in collaboration with local Wikimedia chapters and volunteers from the Wikimedia community. The work in all of them focused on asking museum partners to open their doors to invite in would-be editors of Wikipedia, attract Wikipedia volunteers to help organize the event, add media from Europeana Fashion content partners to the Wikimedia Commons platform and subsequently use these images for relevant articles on Wikipedia.

When after the first few edit-a-thons we felt comfortable with the formula, we also tried organizing a parallel set of edit­a­thons sharing the same theme with an additional online challenge, and explored the possibilities of hosting a GLAM-Wiki collaborative event in the framework of a larger cultural or fashion-related festival.

Some of the edit­a­thons were held in cooperation with other organizations. These events were organized in order to both reach specialists from the fashion domains, students and existing Wikipedia editors, with the stress on a particular target group shifting from event to event. At almost all of the events we organized presentations about the cooperation as part of the introduction.

List of Fashion Edit-a-thons[edit]

Event images[edit]

Challenge[edit]

Wikimedia Sverige set up a month-long online Challenge to write about footwear

Handbook[edit]

After setting up seven edit-a-thons in five countries in one year’s time, the project bundled its experiences in a handbook for organizing fashion edit-a-thons. It was directed towards galleries, libraries, archives and museums and open to improvement from the community.

The handbook primarily compiled what we have learned from running these events. It was reviewed and amended by the Europeana network and the Wikimedia community and provides an overview of the Wikipedia organisation’s structure, the basics of hosting an edit-a-thon, ways to ensure a successful edit-a-thon, how to measure success, tips for getting content on Wikimedia, event promotion, as well as a suggested day programme, a 3-month preparation agenda and relevant resources. The aim was to create a reference guide that any GLAM institution hoping to hold an edit-a-thon could utilize.

The handbook was widely disseminated in the GLAM and Wikipedia communities and served as a valuable aid in organising the later events in the fashion edit-a-thon series.

Thesaurus drawings[edit]

To create a visual classification system for its multilingual fashion thesarus, Europeana Fashion commissioned Hungarian fashion student David Ring to make an illustration of each object type in the thesaurus hierarchy. Europeana Fashion partners MoMu – Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp and Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels teamed up with Wikimedia Belgium in September 2014 to also make these illustrations available under a CC0 license on Wikimedia Commons.

The approximately 250 ink-on-paper drawings have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Europeana Fashion hopes that the illustrations will not only serve to enhance searching Europeana Fashion content through visual classification or to support Wikipedia articles, but that they could play an instrumental role in Europeana's goal to promote and enable greater re-use of cultural heritage resources by creative industries.

Commons:Europeana_Fashion_-_MoMu_-_Thesaurus_drawings

  • Mary Janes
    Mary Janes
  • Boutonnière
    Boutonnière
  • Cocktail dress
    Cocktail dress

Examples from the Europeana Fashion category on Wikimedia Commons[edit]

  • Anonymous, Caraco jacket in printed cotton, England,1770-1790
    Anonymous, Caraco jacket in printed cotton, England,1770-1790
  • Dress (robe à l'anglaise) and skirts in chintz, India, ca. 1770-1790, shawl (fichu) in embroidered batiste, 1770-1800.
    Dress (robe à l'anglaise) and skirts in chintz, India, ca. 1770-1790, shawl (fichu) in embroidered batiste, 1770-1800.
  • A woman poses in a long dress
    A woman poses in a long dress

Connections[edit]

Europeana Fashion is closely related to the cultural platform Europeana

Awards[edit]

In April 2015, the Fashion Edit-a-thon series was awarded a MUSE Award by the American Alliance of Museums.

Documentation[edit]

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