Thats tremendous progress Abbas!
Some things we can do in return as Wikimedia volunteers:
*Perform digital image restorations for free.
*DYK's (Did You Knows) are also a good way on Wiki to tell the world
of that unique piece of photo we have in Kenya.
*Write articles around the media files /photos
*Almost certain(since I can't speak on behalf) that the Foundation
shall put up a blog entry highlighting the donations.
*And the recent punchline by the US Archivist ,David Ferriero;
: "If Wikipedia is good enough for the Archivist of the United States,
maybe it should be good enough for you."
Twende mbele.
//Stephen.
On 8/2/12, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Sorry, the earlier report had some minor corrections. Below is a rectified
version.
Thanks,Abbas.
From: abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com
To: wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 09:33:48 +0000
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Kenya News Agency archive
Report: Digitization of the Kenya News Agency Archive Prepared by: Abbas
MahmoodPrepared for: Wikimedia KenyaDate: August 2, 2012Background & Context
I was invited to join a digitization working group created by the Kenya News
Agency & the Kenya ICT Board that was aimed at laying a strategy for the
digitization of KNA's content. Last week, the working group had our first
meeting, and my main goals were to 1) talk about non-commercial use of
content, 2) use the Aljazeera Creative Commons Repository as a case study,
and 3) learn from other stakeholders that were involved.
KNA has a repository of (mainly) photos (6,000+) related to Kenya’s history
and culture dating back to the pre-colonial era. But due to budgetary
constraints, the photos are stored in non-ideal conditions and their risk of
damage or deterioration is therefore high. Moreover, their content is
currently underutilised due the difficulty in retrieving the photos and lack
of public awareness.
The working group has around 20 members with folks coming from different
backgrounds: studio producers, film makers, Kenya National Archives staff,
AMREF Library staff, Bank of Africa staff, Creative Commons staff, freelance
photojournalists, Ministry of Information & Communication staff, Kenya ICT
Board staff and myself.
Summary
It was agreed that one of the potential customers of this project will be
Wikipedia; and that some of the content will be donated to Wikimedia under a
free licence. (Note that the digitized repository will be used for
commercial purposes, but we’ll get a small content donation for purposes of
publicity and awareness).
Also, some of the photos that KNA has are caption-less or lack the relevant
metadata. It was suggested that we(the working group) explore the use of
online collaboration (such as wikis or social media) to engage with the
public and inquire about photos which don’t have known descriptions. We
therefore expect citizen engagement to help us in identifying some of the
photos.
[We discussed lots of other issues which I have intentionally omitted since
1) the final report is not out yet; and 2) it’s not relevant to you guys.]
Conclusion
We are now creating a proposed roadmap on the way forward which will be
presented, next week, to the Permanent Secretary of Information &
Communication, Dr. Bitange Ndemo, for final approval before we proceed with
this project.
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