GLAM/Newsletter/September 2018/Contents/Armenia report

This Month in GLAM – Volume VIII, Issue IX, September 2018

Armenia report

GLAM+Wikidata

By Armine Aghayan (User:Armineaghayan) & Khazhak Drampyan (User:XenonX88)

GLAM+Wikidata at Ara Sargsyan & Hakob Kojoyan Museum

Wikimedia Armenia started collaboration with house museum of Ara Sargsian and Hakob Kojoyan since 2017. The co-worker of the museum Anna Gohar Sargsyan learned wikipedia tools and started to work in wikipedia, wikidata and wikicommons. Sculptor Ara Sargsyan and artist Hakob Kojoyan lived in this house museum since 1934. In 1973 according to the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR the house became a branch of the National Gallery of Armenia.

As a part of the collaboration started in 2017, on September 8, 2018 together with the museum we organized a wikidata edit a thon. We created an event in Facebook, shared the news in Wikimedia Armenia's and Ara Sargsyan & Hakob Kojoyan Museum facebook pages, as well as shared the event info in our mailing list.
More than 20 editors from Lernapat, Mrgavan, Ddmashen Wikiclubs and other interested editors who were familiar with wikidata tools from Summer Wikicmap joined the edit-a-thon which lasted from 11 am to 4 pm. Wikimedia Armenia provided the editors with the laptops and wi fi connection. The museum provied the editors with some catalogues and the materials from there were included in wikidata. The museum devoted some photography to wikicommons. The editors created more than 120 statements many of which can be found here. 6 new articles were created about the museums objects, 3 were improved. The editors had the chance to enjoy a nice tour in the museum, to walk in the sculpture garden and to edit both inside the museum walls and in the front garden of the museum.

Wikidata edit-a-thon in the museum, visitors hall
Wikidata edit-a-thon in the museum, visitors hall
Wikidata edit-a-thon in the museum's front garden
Wikidata edit-a-thon in the museum's front garden
Wikidata edit-a-thon in the museum's front garden
In the studio of Ara Sargsyan
Head of the museum is telling the history of the objects on display

Wikidata edit-a-thon at Ara Sargsyan & Hakob Kojoyan Museum Edit-a-thon's photos
Ara Sargsyan and Hakob Kojoyan Museum Collections wikidata
Category:Ara Sargsyan & Hakob Kojoyan Museum
Category:Works by Ara Sargsyan

Bast of Vahan Tekeyan
Hiroshima
To the memory of killed soldier or To the victims of WW2
Busts by Ara Sargsyan
Woman with grapes

Armenia!@MET

By Armine Aghayan (User:Armineaghayan)

In September 2018 The Metropolitem Art Museum launched Armenia! exhibition representing the cultural heritage of Armenia dating from the 4th to the 17th centuries. The exhibition objects come from major Armenian collections: the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, the Matenadaran (Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts), the National History Museum in the Republic of Armenia, the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia in Lebanon, the Brotherhood of St. James in Jerusalem, the Mekhitarist Congregation of San Lazzaro degli Armeni in Venice, the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, the Diocese of the Armenian Church (Eastern) in New York, the Armenian Museum of America in Boston; and the Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum in Michigan.
The idea to start a collaboration with the above mentioned institutions belong to User:Pharos. For the beginning I made wikidata pages for the exhibition items and with the help of the User:Jane023 we created Wikidata list. The photos included in the list were already in commons and we hope we can work with these institutions for more materias and photos. In wikipedia we created 2 articles: Reliquary Cross with Relics of Saint George and Carved Doors of Saint Karapet Church of Mush.

Armenia! Exhibition at The Met to Focus on Medieval Armenia Wikidata list of objects being exhibited at MET on Septemmber 22, 2018 - January 13, 2019.

Wooden chapiter from the History Museum of Armenia
Book of Lamentation (ms 1568) from the colection of Matenadaran
Definition of Philosophy from the collection of Matenadaran
Gospel Book with Portraits of Esayi Nchetsi and Nerses Mshetsi from the collection of Matenadaran

Collaboration with regional Wiki-clubs in the frameworks of "Wiki Loves Yerevan" GLAM project

By Khazhak Drampyan (User:XenonX88)

An active collaboration with regional Wiki-clubs has been initiated in September, 2018 in the frameworks of "Wiki Loves Yerevan" GLAM project. 11 Wiki-clubs from Armenia and Nakorno-Karabakh edited articles on historical buildings and streets of Yerevan, as well as notable people born in Yerevan. The collaboration lasted from September 26 - October 3. This collaboration yielded to over 50 quality articles with several new items created in Wikidata.

This was the first collaboration with wiki-clubs and a successful attempt to engage regional clubs in GLAM project.

Children from Arevatsag Wiki-club editing articles on Yerevan
Editing process in Arevatsag Wiki-club

Collaboration with Erebuni Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve within Community Weekend

By Khazhak Drampyan (User:XenonX88)

On September 28-30, 2018 a two day meeting of Community Weekend was organized in Aghveran, one of the picturesque corners of Armenia. Within this short period a successful collaboration was carried out with Erebuni Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve within the framework of "Wiki Loves Yerevan" project. An article about the history and archaeological finds and evidences of Teishebaini or Karmir Blur, as one of the oldest Urartian settlements in the world, was replenished with scientific materials.

Another article, successfully replenished, tells about the excavations and finds in Shengavit early Bronze-age archaeological site that is considered the earliest account of Yerevan history and dates 6000 years. This site has been meticulously excavated during Soviet period and still contains much to be studied.

Marine Kirakosyan, the participant from Erebouni Museum-Reserve shares with her experience of the editing process:

"I'm really thankful to all those, who helped me greatly to start editing Wikipedia. This is something new for me. I've always wondered how articles were written in Wikipedia. Now that I have already got acquainted with the editing tools and the process, I can surely say that the collaboration between Wikimedia Armenia and Erebouni Museum-Reserve will continue in the future."