Openaccess cma

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Description

This bot account is operated by Ethanholda of the Cleveland Museum of Art. It will use the export of CMA's collections database as a data source, utilizing Pywikibot to programmatically import and sync metadata for over 61,000 works.

Background

On January 23, 2019, the Cleveland Museum of Art announced its conversion into an Open Access institution. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication was assigned for the Museum's images and data.

At the Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access means the public now has the ability to share, collaborate, remix, and reuse images of as many as 30,000 public- domain artworks from the CMA’s world-renowned collection of art for commercial and non-commercial purposes. In addition, portions of collections information (metadata) for more than 61,000 artworks, both in the public domain and those works with copyright or other restrictions, works are now available.

As part of the Open Access program, the CMA has also launched a project to proactively share collections metadata on Wikidata. To learn more about this effort and get involved, visit Wikidata:WikiProject Cleveland Museum of Art.