GLAM-US October 2015

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Tree of 40 Fruit
by Andy Mabbett 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

Wikipedia needs an open licensed picture of one of the "Trees of 40 Fruit": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_40_Fruit in blossom. Most are in the United States. There's a map of their locations at: http://www.treeof40fruit.com/works/map/ Can anyone oblige, please? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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Fwd: "Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions for Digital Age"
by Pine W 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

Good news. (: Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Pine W" <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> Date: Oct 29, 2015 12:48 AM Subject: "Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions for Digital Age" To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Jake Orlowitz" <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com> Cc: "Wikimedia Legal" <legal(a)wikimedia.org> Good news for open access: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/29/us/harvard-law-library-sacrifices-a-trove… I hope that Wikimedians will get access to the collection via TWL. (: Pine

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Requests for community input on Cascadia Wikimedians plans
by Pine W 28 Oct '15

28 Oct '15

Hi all, Your comments would be appreciated at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Cascadia_Wikimedians_User_Group/… You can read about recent activities and our plans for the first quarter of 2016 in this email: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-cascadia/2015-October/00068… Thanks in advance, Pine

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Cool new (non-US) project for potential outreach
by Jen Dawson Cardelús 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

There's an awesome new project called Zoosphere <http://www.zoosphere.net> that is taking high-resolution images of biological specimens and putting them online. This seems to be a project of the Berlin Natural History Museum, which is digitizing its insect collections, though I'm not entirely sure whether other museums are involved -- there are a number of logos at the bottom of the project website, but they may just be advisors/financial sponsors/etc. The images at Zoosphere include photos of type specimens and are pretty awesome. NYT coverage here <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/20/science/putting-museums-samples-of-life-o…>. It appears that the images posted so far are CC-0, which is great. I'm not sure exactly how Wikipedia/Commons could be involved in this besides scraping the content they upload and potentially encouraging them to continue using free licensing, but it might make sense to have a German Wikimedian contact them. Does anyone have German contacts that could be useful here?

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Arizona GLAM-Wiki folk?
by Alex Stinson 14 Oct '15

14 Oct '15

Hi All, Do we know of anyone in Arizona that is active in GLAM-Wiki? Or, similarly, is there anyone whose focus is on indigenous artifacts? A request came through the Foundation recently, and we would love to engage community members as leaders. Cheers, Alex Stinson

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GLAM-Wiki US consortium
by Pine W 12 Oct '15

12 Oct '15

Hi GLAM-Wiki folks, I just watched the video from WikiConference USA 2015 about the GLAM-Wiki US consortium. I'm glad to see that there is progress happening this year with the development of the consortium. Here at Cascadia Wikimedians, we recently had our first Seattle-area museum event with the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Luke_Museum_of_the_Asian_Pacific_America…> (which is a Smithsonian affiliate). Our current thinking is that we'd like to have quarterly activities with them. We've also had some GLAM events in the Portland area with the Art+Feminism theme, and we're actively engaged with the University of Washington Library System (which is among the largest library systems in the United States). I would be very interested to know if it's possible to get regular updates about the progress of the GLAM-Wiki US consortium, and what services it might be able to provide that would be aligned with our goals and interests. While I'm writing, I'll mention that there are tentative plans for WikiConference USA 2016 to be hosted by Cascadia Wikimedians in the Seattle area, and we would welcome the opportunity to have a meeting of the consortium at next year's WikiConference if the conference is in Seattle. Please keep in touch. Regards, Pine Executive Director Cascadia Wikimedians User Group

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