Hi all,
I'm currently working on fixing up some of the details for an event we
have running later in October with the International Dunhuang Project,
an international group working with a large collection of manuscripts
and artefacts from the eastern end of the Silk Road.
http://idp.bl.uk/ &
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Dunhuang_Project
The aim is to work on content related to the broad context of Central
Asian/Silk Road history and archaeology, using the resources and
expertise of the group to develop articles on topics such as:
* major archaeological sites in the region
* history of the regions and periods covered
* key archaeologists, explorers, and scholars
* related ancient languages, art, and culture
A number of IDP staff in the BL are commited to working on this over
several days, and we're also making arrangements for some groups of
postgraduate students in related fields to get involved. It'll run
over four days at the British Library in London - 23rd to 26th October
- and Wikimedians who'd like to get involved are welcome to come on
any of the days. It will be inside the staff areas at the library, so
we *will* be able to have reference books available, which has often
been a problem in the past with these events!
If you're interested, please get in touch or sign up on the wiki -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BL/IDP - and please do
forward this to anyone else who might be interested. IDP is a
multinational group, and we're keen to make sure some of this extends
beyond the English Wikipedia.
Hope to see some of you there!
--
- Andrew Gray
Wikipedian in Residence, British Library
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk