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# Das Bundesarchiv and Wikimedia Commons
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/das-bundesarchiv-and-wikimedia-commons/
- Published: 2008-12-06T21:34:40.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T09:19:13.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Institutions, Systems

An announcement from Das Bundesarchiv (German National Archive) and Wikimedia Commons:

> Starting on Thursday Dec 4, 2008, Wikimedia Commons will witness a massive upload of new images. We are anticipating about 100,000 files from a donation from the [German Federal Archive](https://www.bundesarchiv.de/?ref=lorcandempsey.net "https://www.bundesarchiv.de"). These images are mostly related to the history of Germany (including the German Democratic Republic) and are part of a cooperation between [Wikimedia Germany](https://www.wikimedia.de/?ref=lorcandempsey.net "https://www.wikimedia.de") and the Federal Archive. \[[Commons:Bundesarchiv – Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bundesarchiv?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]

This is another interesting example of a major cultural organization putting materials in an important web destination. Presumably there is some background context which explains why they are going here rather than in the Flickr [Commons](https://flickr.com/commons?ref=lorcandempsey.net) which has been providing a venue for image collections from several cultural institutions (most recently The National Library of New Zealand and the Imperial War Museum).  
A notable part of the arrangement is the use of German National Library authority files.

> The other part of the cooperation is a tool for linking people from a list compiled by the Federal Archive to the German Wikipedia Persondata and to the person authority file of the [German National Library](https://www.d-nb.de/?ref=lorcandempsey.net "https://www.d-nb.de/") (something German Wikipedia has already been doing since 2005). \[[Commons:Bundesarchiv – Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bundesarchiv?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\] 

Via my colleague Art Smith.