Congratulations Noopur !! On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa.com(a)gmail.com > Congrats !!! > > May I suggest to create QR entries also alongwith the regular GLAM work > for the museum. > The could be a great start for this GLAM project and will also give real > value addition to the museum. > > Don't know how much efforts and technical resources will be required for > the same. > > Regards > -Sudhanwa > > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Noopur <noopur.raval(a)gmail.com> >> Dear all, >> I am extremely delighted to announce India's first (?) GLAM collaboration >> with a State institution in New Delhi, the capital of India. The*National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum (NHHM) >> *, New Delhi has approved our draft and we will soon begin a 6 month >> pilot project with them. >> I have been corresponding with their director for over 2 months now, >> since the GLAMcamp in Amsterdam. After a series of conversations with the >> Director, Dr Ruchira Ghose, I sent in an approval and after two meetings, >> she sent in a revised proposal to the Ministry of Culture in India. Just >> two days ago, the Ministry approved this project and has also provided her >> a small grant to support our incidental expenses. NHHM has over 30,000 >> objects including pottery, textiles, metal work, paintings and more. >> >> *Goals:* >> >> - 6 month pilot project to churn out 25 'Good Articles'. >> - Training staff and capacity building >> - Recruiting 10 new editors from art colleges to work on site for >> digitization/documentation >> - Make the museum a regular avenue for GLAM meets >> >> Note: Good Articles here doesn't mean GA by en-WP standards. We intend to >> create at least 25 articles with substantial information. Would like your >> inputs on this. >> >> *Challenges: * >> >> - Delhi has a small community, so we *really *need help from EVERYONE >> possible, local and global >> - The staff members are only comfortable with Hindi, so we'd >> appreciate ALL help possible from hi-WP editors >> - *Biggest challenge: *India is a vast country with craft traditions >> in millions of villages. So, at the time of acquiring, many art objects do >> not come with published information, documentation and references. Much of >> this stuff is 'word of mouth', oral traditions and stories of artisans etc. >> We have asked the Museum to start documenting and publishing these stories >> under their Publication cell BUT that will take time. Do you think using >> oral citations in this case would be helpful? >> - Since this is my/our first time, we will appreciate guidance on >> scanning, making an MoU and help creating/maintaining the project page. Can >> someone please help? *makes puppy face* >> >> I apologize for this really long mail but, my next meeting with the >> Director is on the 14th of February when we will start our 'lead-up' >> program to the project. >> *To all the WiRs: *Did you make some sort of a program schedule or a >> timeline that I could use? >> >> I would love all your suggestions on this project and am *very* excited >> to make my own share of GLAM contributions and mistakes :) Of course, now >> we will also start contributing to TGIM. >> >> Cheers, >> Noopur >> >> -- >> Noopur Raval >> Student >> Arts and Aesthetics >> Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi >> Ph: 9650567690 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > > -- > > ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! > web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in > Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- Rajesh Pandey