Representative Saunders presents the Concurrent Resolution to instructor Richard McCoy and students of the IUPUI Museums Studies Program

Publications about my work in Wikipedia

For the past few years I have been researching and exploring new systems for documenting public artworks using Wikipedia, Flickr, Google Apps, and other applications to serve as places to collect current and historical information about artworks. At the same time, I've been working to create articles relate to the field of conservation-restoration.

2006 Inspired by reading articles in The New Yorker^[1] and The Atlantic^[2] , I made my first edit by adding Chaos 1 by Jean Tinguely to the article about Columbus, Indiana (I later added a complete article about the sculpture).

2006-2008 I worked intermittently to help develop the article about conservation-restoration, though the lion's share of the work was done by User:Daniel Cull.

2008 I talked about an idea do document artworks using Wikipedia on the Indianapolis Museum of Art's Blog.^[3] Like many, I was interested in the Flickr Commons project which started around this time.

2009 I published an article, Collaborating in the Public’s Domain^[4] that explores ways for art conservators to engage visitors in collecting information about artworks, and therefore care for them.

2009 I was invited to become an adjunct instructor in the IUPUI Museum Studies Program. In my first course, I founded WikiProject Public Art as a teaching tool for museum studies students to document collections of public art.
- My students created the IUPUI Public Art Collection.
- One of my students wrote about this project on the IMA's Blog; On New Beginnings; or How Wikipedia Can Help us all Care for Public Art.^[5]
- The Chronicle of Higher Education wrote a story about the project; Scholars Use Wikipedia to Save Public Art From the Dustbin of History.^[6]
- e-conservation magazine interviewed me and User:Jgmikulay about this project.^[7]
- I was invited to participate in Wikimedia@WM2010, and effort to have museum leaders discuss ways in which they can contribute to Wikipedia with members of the Wikimedia Foundation.^[8]
2010 I used WikiProject Public Art with my students to document the artworks inside and around the Indiana Statehouse.
- MCN, SlideShow, The Signpost.
- The 2010 CC&M students created the Indiana Statehouse Public Art Collection.
- I summarized this work and some of the other work in other work done by WikiProject Public Art Task Forces on Witty's Blog; New Systems for Documenting Public Art.^[9]
- 2011 With and on behalf of my students I received Concurrent Resolutions from the Indiana House of Representatives (sponsored by Representative Tom Saunders) and Senate (sponsored by Senator Jim Merritt) for our work documenting the artwork at the Indiana Statehouse.
- Mentioned
- One of my students, User:Rearnold22 (Rosemary Arnold), wrote a blog post on the IMA's Blog summarizing our day receiving the Resolutions.^[10]
2011 I started working with IMA interns to document all of the outdoor artworks at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
- I created the List of outdoor artworks at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which has highly accurate GPS coordinates for all IMA artworks.
- Interns User:Lottie Ford, User:Latinandgreekhon, and User:Npeterswiki created articles about all of the artworks on the museum's campus.
- In February I was interviewed by the Carnegie Mellon web project Technology in the Arts in an article called Social Media Spotlight: Crowdsourcing Archives with Richard McCoy.^[11]
2012 I started working with IMA interns & e-Volunteers to create articles about basic conservation-restoration practices.
- I have continued to grow the IMA's e-Volunteer Program, which was adopted by the Royal Ontario Museum as a similar e-Volunteer Program].
- In May I was interviewed on Static Made's "Podcast" series.^[12]
- In May I gave a presentation at the American Institute for Conservation Annual Meeting in New Mexico, AZ: "WikiProject Public Art: Documentation, Research, and Advocacy".
- In June I was interviewed in the Newsletter of the ICOM-CC Working Group Modern Materials and Contemporary Art about my work with WikiProject Public Art. ^[13]
- In August, I launched a project with the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art - North America to document all of the Outdoor Tony Smith sculptures in the world. The Artist Research Project: Tony Smith. This project was announced on the New York Tiimes' "Arts Beat".^[14]
2013 I Launched the Tony Smith t-shirt give away project with INCCA-NA on Art21's Blog^[15], ^[16].
- In June I was interviewed by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training as part of their podcast series on WikiProject Preservation Education.^[17]

Some day, I'll work on articles about African Songye Power figures.... ^[18]

References

^ Schiff, Stacy (31 July 2006). "Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?". The New Yorker. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
^ Poe, Marshall (September 2006). "The Hive". The Atlantic. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
^ McCoy, Richard. "Calling all present and future Wikipedians". Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
^ McCoy, Richard (March 2009). "Collaborating in the Public's Domain". CeROArt. 3. Retrieved 30 January 2011.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
^ Basile, Elizabeth. "On New Beginnings; or How Wikipedia Can Help us all Care for Public Art". Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
^ Helen Miller, Mary (4 April 2010). "Scholars Use Wikipedia to Save Public Art From the Dustbin of History". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
^ Cull, Daniel (2010). "Wikipedia Saves Public Art: An interview with Richard McCoy and Jennifer Geigel Mikulay". E-conservation Magazine (14): 19–27. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
^ "Wikimedia@MW2010". Archives & Museum Informatics. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
^ McCoy, Richard. "New Systems for Document Public Art". Witty's Blog. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
^ Arnold, Rosemary. "Resolving to Care and Document". IMA Blog. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
^ Hughes, Thomas. "Social Media Spotlight: Crowdsourcing Archives with Richard McCoy". Technology in the Arts. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
^ Inscho, Jeffrey. "Podcast 010: Crowd Conversation with Richard McCoy". Static Made. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
^ "Richard McCoy on WikiProject Public Art". ICOM-CC Working Group Modern Materials and Contemporary Art. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
^ Kennedy, Randy (3 August 2012). "Project Enlists the Public to Document Outdoor Sculpture by Tony Smith". New York Times. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
^ McCoy, Richard. "No Preservatives | Happy (Belated) Birthday, Tony Smith!". Art 21. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
^ Green, Tyler. "The Modern Art Notes Podcast". Blouin ArtInfo. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
^ Byrd, Stephanie. "Richard McCoy discusses the use of wikis in graduate level coursework". National Center for Preservation Technology and Training. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
^ Rudavsky, Shari (19 April 2012). "Revealing statues secrets at Indianapolis museum, one scan at a time". IndyStar. Retrieved 9 May 2012.

[1] Schiff, Stacy (31 July 2006). "Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?". The New Yorker. Retrieved 31 January 2011.

[2] Poe, Marshall (September 2006). "The Hive". The Atlantic. Retrieved 31 January 2011.

[3] McCoy, Richard. "Calling all present and future Wikipedians". Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. Retrieved 30 January 2011.

[4] McCoy, Richard (March 2009). "Collaborating in the Public's Domain". CeROArt. 3. Retrieved 30 January 2011.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

[5] Basile, Elizabeth. "On New Beginnings; or How Wikipedia Can Help us all Care for Public Art". Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. Retrieved 30 January 2011.

[6] Helen Miller, Mary (4 April 2010). "Scholars Use Wikipedia to Save Public Art From the Dustbin of History". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 30 January 2011.

[7] Cull, Daniel (2010). "Wikipedia Saves Public Art: An interview with Richard McCoy and Jennifer Geigel Mikulay". E-conservation Magazine (14): 19–27. Retrieved 9 February 2011.

[8] "Wikimedia@MW2010". Archives & Museum Informatics. Retrieved 3 September 2011.

[9] McCoy, Richard. "New Systems for Document Public Art". Witty's Blog. Retrieved 30 January 2011.

[10] Arnold, Rosemary. "Resolving to Care and Document". IMA Blog. Retrieved 9 February 2011.

[11] Hughes, Thomas. "Social Media Spotlight: Crowdsourcing Archives with Richard McCoy". Technology in the Arts. Retrieved 5 March 2011.

[12] Inscho, Jeffrey. "Podcast 010: Crowd Conversation with Richard McCoy". Static Made. Retrieved 9 May 2012.

[13] "Richard McCoy on WikiProject Public Art". ICOM-CC Working Group Modern Materials and Contemporary Art. Retrieved 22 August 2012.

[14] Kennedy, Randy (3 August 2012). "Project Enlists the Public to Document Outdoor Sculpture by Tony Smith". New York Times. Retrieved 22 August 2012.

[15] McCoy, Richard. "No Preservatives | Happy (Belated) Birthday, Tony Smith!". Art 21. Retrieved 17 January 2013.

[16] Green, Tyler. "The Modern Art Notes Podcast". Blouin ArtInfo. Retrieved 18 January 2013.

[17] Byrd, Stephanie. "Richard McCoy discusses the use of wikis in graduate level coursework". National Center for Preservation Technology and Training. Retrieved 3 August 2013.

[18] Rudavsky, Shari (19 April 2012). "Revealing statues secrets at Indianapolis museum, one scan at a time". IndyStar. Retrieved 9 May 2012.

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