Hello!
I'd like to invite you to the next edit-a-thon at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which will be focused on The Civil War and American Art<http://www.americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/art_civil_war/>. The event will include: new editor training, a tour with the curator, Eleanor Harvey, of The Civil War and American Art exhibition, and a group edit-a-thon.
When: Friday, February 15, 2013
Where: Smithsonian American Art Museum<http://www.americanart.si.edu/>, Located at 8th and G Streets, NW, in Washington D.C. We will meet in the G Street Lobby (enter at 8th and G Streets) at 9:15 a.m.
What to bring: photo ID, a laptop, coffee and snacks if you wish (lunch is provided)
Advanced RSVP Required! RSVP to Georgina Goodlander, goodlanderg(a)si.edu<mailto:goodlanderg@si.edu>, 202-633-8532, Due to the limited space, sign up is required. Space is limited to 20 non-staff participants.
Hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Georgina
Georgina Goodlander
Web & Social Media Content Manager
Smithsonian American Art Museum
(202) 633-8532 | GoodlanderG(a)si.edu
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Hello everyone,
I'm very pleased to announce that Dominic McDevitt-Parks will be joining
Wikimedia DC as our new Cultural Partnerships Coordinator!
I expect that most of you already know Dominic, who has been a long-time
Wikimedian and a regular participant in events both within the DC area and
elsewhere. Dominic has graciously offered us the benefit of his immense
experience with building partnerships between cultural institutions and the
Wikimedia movement, most notably in during his tenure as the
Wikipedian-in-Residence at the National Archives and Records Administration.
In his new position as Cultural Partnerships Coordinator, Dominic will
report directly to the Board of Directors of Wikimedia DC. He will have
number of responsibilities, including serving as a point of contact for
DC-area cultural institutions and professionals looking for guidance from
Wikimedia; facilitating communication and sharing of best practices among
professionals and Wikimedians and between the two groups; helping to
initiate and evaluate partnerships between institutions and Wikimedia DC,
as appropriate, in the interest of the chapter's goals and the Wikimedia
movement as a whole; and serving as the bridge between the Wikimedia DC
community and the global GLAM-Wiki community.
Please join me in welcoming Dominic to his new role!
Cheers,
Kirill
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Kirill Lokshin
Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
[Pardon the crosspost]
Hi everyone,
I've written a new blog post on the OpenGLAM blog about Open Images
(Open Beelden) releasing their metrics about their open cultural data
usage. This includes metrics related to Wikipedia, the Open Images
website, and Europeana. Including the fact that Wikipedia articles
featuring Sound & Vision material have been viewed over 40 million
times. O_O It also touches on the importance of such metrics in getting
institutional buy in.
And you can watch an awesome video featuring the first coop refrigerator
in the Netherlands:
http://openglam.org/2013/02/22/open-images-releases-media-usage-metrics/
Enjoy and please share!
Sarah
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*Sarah Stierch*
*/Museumist and open culture advocate/*
>>Visit sarahstierch.com <http://sarahstierch.com><<
Please excuse duplicate postings.
We are organizing a Condensed CURATEcamp in association with IS&T Archiving
2013 on the theme "*Digitized / Born Digital Together*."
When? Tuesday, April 2, 2013
What time? 1:15 – 5:30 pm
Where? The National Archives, Washington DC ("Archives I")
Details on the CURATEcamp and on how to register for the Archiving 2013
conference and the CURATEcamp are available here:
http://www.imaging.org/ist/Conferences/archiving/index.cfm
A CURATEcamp brings individuals together to discuss topics they define. For
this special condensed version, the theme is Digitized / Born Digital
Together. The theme was selected to take advantage of Archiving 2013’s rich
combination of experts— those working in imaging and digital curation
within the cultural, academic, and industry sectors.
The “unconference” format of CURATEcamp encourages attendees to identify
and discuss the issues they care about the most, leading to progress on
solving real problems. Two key ideas are that participants define the
agenda and that there are no spectators. Everyone who comes should plan on
actively participating in and helping to lead discussions.
*Registration Info*
Registration will be handled by IS&T so use the registration form available
on the Archiving 2013 web page
(http://www.imaging.org/ist/Conferences/archiving/index.cfm<http://www.imaging.org/ist/Conferences/archiving/index.cfm>
)
Please note: Participation is limited to 75 people; advanced registration
is required. There is no charge for this event if you register along with
Archiving 2013 by the early-registration deadline. If you register after
March 4, the fee is $35.
Although the event is open to all, priority is given to those who register
for the full conference by March 3 on a first-come first served basis.
Those who register only for CURATECAMP by March 3 will be put on a waiting
list until March 4. After March 4, all space is first-come/first-served.
There is no onsite registration for this event.
Michael Horsley
Archives Specialist
Digital Public Access Branch
Office of Innovation
National Archives and Records Administration
301-837-0852
[Pardon the cross-posts - and the English message] - Please forward as
well!
Hi everyone,
March is Women's History Month, and this will be the second year for
WikiWomen's History Month, an *international* collaborative event that
takes place offline at edit-a-thons and online through project focuses.
Events and projects focus on improving women's history coverage on any
language project. We have a page on English Wikipedia, like last year,
to gather all of the events:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month
So far we have events in South America, Europe and the United States.
I hope you'll consider throwing an event in your town, village, or city
- or do a women's history focus for your WikiProject - large or small!
Sarah
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*Sarah Stierch*
*/Museumist and open culture advocate/*
>>Visit sarahstierch.com <http://sarahstierch.com><<
created a GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) group for kansas,
mailing list for topeka and a facebook page linked from here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Topeka would like to
organize some more meetups at different historic sites in topeka (and even
other places if we can find someone with a car), go there and take photos,
collect information and work on the articles. It could be a great group
event. please let me know what you think, and sign up on the mailing list
if you like. Also if you know of GLAM sites anywhere in kansas, please add
them to the list.
Also I would like to organize a photo contest for Kansas.
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James Michael DuPont
Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org
Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com
Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org
Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3
Free Software Foundation Europe Fellow http://fsfe.org/support/?h4ck3rm1k3
The Michigan Wikipedians and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library are
hosting an edit-a-thon!
The Michigan Wikipedians<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Michigan_Wikipedians>
are
a University of Michigan student organization that focuses on transforming
Wikipedia readers into Wikipedia editors. At this edit-a-thon participants
will be working with the Michigan Wikipedians and newly donated content
from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library<http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/>
.
*Event Details*
Open to the public
Time: 5:00PM, Thursday February 7, 2013
Location: Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library on North Campus (1000 Beal
Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109)
Bring: Your laptop, an appetite (pizza will be provided)
If you already have a Wikipedia account, sign-up
here<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Ann_Arbor/Gerald_R._Ford_Pres…>
.
Otherwise, register at the Facebook
event<http://www.facebook.com/events/330273707082729/>
page.
Interview with Michael Barera, Wikipedian in Residence at the Gerald R.
Ford Presidential Library
*"I think the first part is that there are really strong shared values
between GLAM institutions, the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Commons,
Wikipedia and all the other sibling sites. These are all institutions that,
when push comes to shove, they’re about education. They’re about public
access. They’re about sharing. They’re about curating collections, curating
content, and doing something cool with it." - Michael Barera*
Check out the Open.Michigan blog to read the interview with
Michael<http://open.umich.edu/blog/2013/02/04/the-michigan-wikipedians-an-edit-a-th…>
.
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Sincerely,
Dave Malicke
Open Education Specialist
open.umich.edu
University of Michigan Medical School
dmalicke(a)umich.edu
(734) 998-7749