Commons:Meemoo

meemoo - flemish intitute for archives [miːməʊ] supports heritage organisations with services, knowledge and advice in caring for and using their (digital) archives.

Until recently, they performed these tasks as three separate organisations: VIAA, PACKED and Lukas. On 1 January 2019, they merged.

General tracking category: Media contributed by meemoo

Staff from meemoo contributing to Wikimedia projects:

• Sam Donvil
• Alina Saenko
• Nell Boeykens

Former staff:

• Olivier Van D'huynslager

meemoo's Wikimedia partnerships and contributions

2022

Public Domain Day 2021

• Feb: Category:Collections of the Royal Library of Belgium - upload of 120 images to Wikimedia Commons by the Royal Library of Belgium, hiking guides by Maurice Cosyn, artworks by Richard Baseleer, Constant Eugène De Busschere and Albert Van Dyck

2021

Public Domain Day 2021

Uploads participants Public Domain Day workshop 2020:

• Raakvlak Brugge (Alexander Soetaert) - upload of 289 objects from Bruges historical center
• Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (by meemoo) -upload of 18 works by Anna De Weert, Arie Van de Giessen, Jozef De Coene & Armand Apol

2020

• Mar: Category:Images from Jakob Smitsmuseum - upload of 104 images to Wikimedia Commons by the Jakob Smits Museum (making all of it's core collection of Jakob Smits paintings, etchings and drawings available on Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons)
• Sept: Category:Images from Jakob Smitsmuseum - upload of 38 images to Wikimedia Commons by the Jakob Smits Museum (making available their collection of artists influenced by Jakob Smits (school of Mol), excluding those whose work is still under copyright)

Public Domain Day 2020

• Jan: File:Skelet bekijkt chinoiserieën, James Ensor, 1885, Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (1995-A), Koning Boudewijnstichting (KBS 0008).jpg - upload 1 image to Wikimedia Commons by Royal Baudouin Foundation (work by James Ensor)
• Feb: File:De Oostendse Visser, James Ensor, 1900, collectie Navigo – Nationaal Visserijmuseum Oostduinkerke.jpg - upload 1 image to Wikimedia Commons by Navigo - Nationaal Visserijmuseum Oostduinkerke
• Feb: Category:Images from Mu.ZEE - upload of 28 images to Wikimedia Commons by Mu.Zee
• Feb: Category:Images from the Groeningemuseum - upload of 25 images to Wikimedia Commons by Groeningemuseum
• Feb: Category:Images from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp - upload of 621 images to Wikimedia Commons by the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
• Feb: Category:Images from the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent - upload of 141 images to Wikimedia Commons by the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
• Feb: Category:Collections of the Royal Library of Belgium - upload of 250 images to Wikimedia Commons by the Royal Library of Belgium
• Mar: Category:Images from Museum Plantin-Moretus - upload of 200 images to Wikimedia Commons by the Museum Plantin-Moretus

2019

• January-February: Category:Images from the King Baudouin Foundation - batch upload of 1.484 images
• March: Project Wolfers (pilot project for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons)
• July: Category:Images from Jakob Smitsmuseum (pilot project for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons), 107 images
• August: Category:Images from FelixArchief (pilot project for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons), 1.047 images
• November: Category:Images from the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (pilot project for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons), 264 images
• December: Category:Images from Gallo-Roman Museum Tongeren - batch upload to Wikimedia Commons of 151 images

Public Domain Day 2019

• Category:Images from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (work by Ramah,Alberto Tutino, Oscar Verpoorten)
• Category:Print Room of the University of Antwerp (work by Henry Harris Brown)
• Category:Collections of the Royal Library of Belgium (work by Louise Danse, Maurice Brocas, Médart Tydgat, Frans Nackaerts)
• Category:Museum Plantin-Moretus (work by Louise Danse)
• Category:Images from the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (work by Maurice Brocas, Eugène Dopchie, François Steyaert, Frédéric De Smet, Olivier Piette, Gustave Van de Woestijne)

2018 (by PACKED vzw)

• May-July: Category:Images from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp - batch upload of 116 images to Wikimedia Commons
• Center for Agrarian History: 56 images to Wikimedia Commons
• Gruuthuuse Museum: 29 images
• Library of the University of Antwerp 1039 images
• Library of the University of Ghent: 40 images

Content creation

• Wikipedia writing project literature students University of Antwerp

Public Domain Day 2018

• Royal Library
• Letterenhuis
• Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
• Horta museum
• Fondation CIVA
• Groeningemuseum

2017 (by PACKED vzw)

• December: Category:Images from the Groeningemuseum - batch upload 842 images to Wikimedia Commons

References

• Maybe some links to PACKED and VIAA news items are nice