Well done on this, Craig. You seem to have been doing a great job with GLAM contacts in Queensland and hopefully others will be inspired and follow your lead and find ways to work with their local GLAM institutions. It's really very important that members take an active role with this kind of work.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Sarah<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Craig Franklin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:craig@halo-17.net">craig@halo-17.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m pleased to announce that based on some contacts that
I made at the GLAM-WIKI conference back in August, and some onsite work that
the Brisbane Wikimedia community has been doing at the Queensland Museum (QM), the
Museum has commenced uploading digitized images from their “A E (Bert)
Roberts” photograph collection to Commons. Bert Roberts was a coachbuilder
from Ipswich in the early 1900s , but also enjoyed photography and took
photographs of a wide variety of subjects, chiefly scenes of everyday life in
Queensland from the time. While not famous for his photography during his
lifetime, after his death his collection of images came to be recognised as providing
a unique view into the society of the time. His photographs are the
subject of a Queensland Museum exhibition, which chiefly resides at their
Toowoomba campus (the Cobb & Co Museum), but which presently has travelled
to Ipswich for a limited time.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So far, 21 images have been uploaded to Commons, but there
are over a thousand glass plate negatives in total that the Museum has.
You can see what’s been uploaded so far here:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:A_E_%22Bert%22_Roberts_plate_glass_photo_collection" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:A_E_%22Bert%22_Roberts_plate_glass_photo_collection</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My request to all of you, basically, is to:</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>Categorise, enhance, and basically edit the file
pages as much as possible.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>Look for appropriate pages on Wikipedia and
other places where this content can be used, and use it.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>Spread the word that GLAM institutions are
seeing the benefits of making their collections available through Commons and
other free media repositories!</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>Watch out and make sure the pages aren’t vandalised,
and any problems that crop up are dealt with quickly so that QM can concentrate
on providing us with free content, and not learning arcane points of Wiki-law.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many of the original plate glass negatives held by the
museum have not been digitised yet, but if there is anyone who would be interested
in volunteering some of their time to learn how to do, and then actually *<b>do</b>*
the digitisation, there may be an opportunity to get in and do that. If
you’re interested (and preferably have some “serious”
photography experience), let me know and I’ll pass your details on.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It’s my hope that this will be but the first of many
successful collaborations between WMAU people and GLAM institutions throughout
the country. I already have a couple of other collaborations cooking away
here in Queensland that will hopefully result in a win not only for the WM
projects, but also open access to cultural and heritage material in
general. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If anyone has any questions regarding these particular images,
please feel free to ask me!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Craig Franklin</p>
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