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
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?
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
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