King Baudouin Foundation

Building of the King Baudouin Foundation in Brussels

This page describes the project together with the Heritage Funds of the King Baudouin Foundation (KBS-FRB).

Purpose

The purpose of the project is to import the donated images from the King Baudouin Foundation to Wikimedia Commons, and the data of the artworks on Wikidata. Further also articles about remarkable artworks are written on Wikipedia.

History and background

The King Baudouin Foundation acquires works of art and literature that are considered as important Belgian heritage and gives these works in permanent loan to museums. They consider it important to make these works available to an as large as possible public.

Contacts

• Geertivp

Partners

• King Baudouin Foundation

Budget

Generic budget: GLAM program

Timeline

• 25 September 2017 - Meeting with the King Baudouin Foundation in Brussels   (Romaine)
• 19 December 2017 - Meeting with the King Baudouin Foundation in Brussels   (Romaine)
• 26 January 2018 - Import 13 images on Wikimedia Commons + data on Wikidata (round 1)
• November 2018-February 2019 - Wikipedian in Residence at the King Baudouin Foundation
  • Content donation: (internal) ticket:2018112610006605
  • Upload Collection Charles Van Herck
• 4 December 2018 - Meeting with King Baudouin Foundation about content donation   (Romaine)
• 28 February 2019 - Meeting with representatives of KBS-FRB to review funding alternatives (Romaine and Geertivp)
• 13 September 2019 - Formal request to found Fonds Vrienden van Wikimedia België (Geertivp)
• 1 December 2019 - Fonds Vrienden van Wikimedia België founded (Geertivp)
• 2020 - Projecten Fonds Vrienden van Wikimedia België

Statistics

The metrics and statistics of this project are:

• Round 1: Number of content pages created/improved: 13 images uploaded, 12 Wikidata items created + 1 improved, ... articles

• Upload Collection Charles Van Herck: 903 images

Related links

• Article about the King Baudouin Foundation on Wikipedia in Dutch, French and English
• King Baudouin Foundation on Wikidata
• Category:King Baudouin Foundation on Wikimedia Commons
  • Images donated by the King Baudouin Foundation on Wikimedia Commons
• Projectrekeningen KBS-FRB
• King Baudouin Foundation, Wikidata and Linked Open Data

Reports

• 8 March 2019 - Report published in the Wikimedia GLAM newsletter This Month in GLAM about the Wikipedian in Residence at the King Baudouin Foundation   (info | report)

Announcements and notices

• (nl) E-news maart 2018: Onze kunstwerken op Wikipedia, 19 March 2018   (archived)
• (nl) Onze collectie op Wikipedia: doe mee! (Wiki Loves Heritage), 24 August 2018   (archived)
• (fr) Notre collection sur Wikipédia : aidez-nous ! (Wiki Loves Heritage), 24 August 2018   (archived)
• (en) Our collection on Wikipedia – We need your help! (Wiki Loves Heritage), 24 August 2018   (archived)
• (nl) PACKED vzw: ontsluiting collecties Koning Boudewijnstichting op Wikimediaplatformen, 7 January 2018   (archived)
• (nl) PACKED: collectie(s) Koning Boudewijnstichting zichtbaar op Wikimediaplatformen, 20 February 2019   (archived)
• (fr) Patrimoine @ wikipedia, 21 February 2019   (archived)
• (nl) Erfgoed voor iedereen @ wikidata, 21 February 2019   (archived)
• (en) Heritage @ Wikipedia, 21 February 2019   (archived)
• (nl) PACKED: verslag presentatie PACKED, VKC en KBS op Open Belgium 2019, 25 March 2019   (archived)