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Alas, no. The Public Catalogue Foundation has spoken with a few Wikimedians about a possible collaboration, but they are very scared that they will *not* be granted permission to work with Wikimedia from their partner organisations, so they want to ask them all individually and informally first. They have decided to postpone any firm partnership with us for about 10 months. They have about 800 partner institutions, so this will take a long time. I had hoped to receive all of their meta data which is online anyway, but even this was a problem. I also wanted to present some numbers about this dataset at the London GLAMcamp and set up a writing contest onwiki and invite their "taggers", but the PCF was worried that their taggers would become Wikipedians and stop tagging. Magnus Manske was so kind as to gather the full set of 37,000 artist names, but I also want the full set of painting names (250,000). We could still do a writing contest anyway. I have been checking the names and was up to 3,200 PCF-Wikimedia matches when we spoke in March. I now have over 7,000 PCF-Wikimedia matches and am still continuing my matches, which has been very entertaining as well as enlightening. Jane (talk) 05:53, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
