Hello Everyone!
In Punjab, India, we have recently formed collaboration with 6 government
GLAM institutes including 3 museums, 2 libraries and 1 archive, with
numerous meetings and communications with officials that went around for
nearly a year. They agreed to collaborate with us for Content donation and
agreed for us to document and digitize their books, artwork, and archives.
This is a big breakthrough for us in India especially Punjab, where
convincing government to form partnerships with open source projects is
rather tough to crack. We hope that this experience of government
collaboration can also bring fruitful learnings to other communities. We
will be facing several challenges for digitization due to lack of resources
in our community. Hope our endeavors can be supported for us to make this
beautiful project happen.
Please check out the project grant we are proposing and leave us inputs and
any suggestions. We welcome all ideas and suggestions and hope to learn
more from all of your experiences. Since this is our first time putting a
project grant, we apologize in case something seems out of order. We are
also happy to answer anything that doesn't seem clear on discussion page.
We from our end tried to keep it as detailed as possible to make our
project more explanatory. Please support us if you feel our efforts are
worthy enough.
We hope to do capacity development and document Heritage via our project
Wiki Loves Heritage - focused on rare documents, archive and books that
have clear historical and cultural importance but have no online presence.
Thank you in advance for providing us opportunity to make impact. We hope
to grow from emerging community into one of the strong community in the
coming time. Here is the link to our grant:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikilover90/Heritage_GLAM
Please endorse it to help us get support and infrastructure we need to make
an impact.
Best Regards,
Wikilover90