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From: "Ivan Martínez" <galaver(a)gmail.com>
Date: Jun 3, 2016 15:43
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] 72 hours with Rodin editathon in Mexico
City
To: <WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Hi everyone.
This June, Wikimedia Mexico will run the editathon* 72 hours with Rodin* a
huge journey from June 9 to 12 at Museo Soumaya[1]. This time we're trying
to break our previous record (60 continuous hours), this time we're trying
to achieve an even greater marathon: more than 70 continuous hours editing
Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wikisource. We are celebrating
the arrival to the museum of one of Auguste Rodin's masterpieces: ''The
Gates of Hell'', so, we will have a celebration about art and free
knowledge which will include talks, theater pieces, guided tours, workshops
and fun time activities as karaoke nights. You saw it at Wikimania,
Wikimedia Mexico volunteers love fun also :) The museum will be open also
to public during that 72 hours.
The editathon will focus on Auguste Rodin works and the Museo Soumaya
collections, but beyond that we have higher goals like completing the full
list of museums in Mexico and at least 50 biographies on importan women in
art and feminism as part of our permanent and transversal Gender Gap
Reduction Strategy. In this list (in Spanish)[2] you can find more about
the event and the list of articles. As in other editathons at Museo
Soumaya[3], we are inviting all Wikimedia chapters and affiliates to join
this effort and support us translating articles to more languages. As you
can see in the list, this time we are doing a detailed logistic which
involves pairing Wikimedia Mexico volunteers with museum staff (researchers
and/or curators), aiming to increase experience of the museum’s staff on
Wikipedia.
*72 hours with Rodin* will pursuit to set a new record and it’s an event
prepared since January, escalating in intensity since two months ago with
the coordination by Andrés Cruz y Corro (User:Andycyca), head of volunteers
in Wikimania 2015. As a matter of fact, 60% of the Wikimania 2015 Yellow
Army will be present on the event.
We will love to have support from Wikimedia community in the translation of
the articles produced in the editathon to more languages of the globe.
Please don’t hesitate if you want to join the editathon!
Best,
Iván Martínez
President
Wikimedia Mexico
[1]
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Museo_Soumaya/Editat%C3%B3n_72_H…
[2]
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Museo_Soumaya/Editat%C3%B3n_72_H…
[3]
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/05/50-hours-of-art-the-museo-soumaya-edi…
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All,
I'm definitely interested in hearing thoughts, questions, and/or reactions to the Horizon Report as I'm the report's advisory panel and continually push for ways to bring awareness of the potential of wiki-based projects to the wider museum community.
Adrianne Russell-------- Original message --------From: Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 6/6/2016 10:05 AM (GMT-06:00) To: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination <cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch>, North American Cultural Partnerships <glam-us(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]" <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [GLAM-US] New Media Consoritium Horizon Report for Museums and Technology
Hey All,
The New Media Consoritium just put out their technologies and Museums report. Its definitely worth a read, I hope you get a chance: http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2016-museum-edition/
A handful of highlights stand out to me in the GLAM-Wiki context: One of their "important policy" changes, is the growing importance of Networks, Consortia, and Alliances to help museums solve technological problems beyond individual organization capacity. This seems to have a lot of oppportunity for our work: Alex Hinojo has been leading a lot of success Catalonia, with the Catalan Public Library network: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Case_studies/Catalonia%27s_Network… is the close thing to a consortia . Similarly, the York Museum Trust w/ Pat Hadley, had a lot of scaling impact. Similarly. I have seen reports from both WMDE and WMSV that suggest focusing on networks to create impact. Instead of having a single organization buy in to our outreach, it might be worth focusing more time and energy on strategically focused networks whose main goal is expanding the capacity of oragnizations within the networks.Digital humanities -- one of the emerging technologies they focus on is the analysis and interactive projects being developed by the cluster of research called "digitial humanities". These projects are pushing a lot of cultural heritage sharing with the public onto the internet in interactive ways, with considerable integration with works being done by students. This appears like an opportunity for us to think more about how we hybrize the Wikimedia Education program and GLAM-Wiki with a focus on the humanities -- unlike the sciences where STEM outreach and the current version of the Education Program have been very successful, there hasn't been much success in expert engagement from the humanities in project like Wikidata and Wikipedias. Also, this seems to be important for the diversity gaps that Art+Feminism and other projects largely located in GLAMs would be well suited to work on.Social media -- throughout the report, there is increased interest in social media and external engagement with patrons/audiences. Making sure that we maintain a social media presence, spreading the word of GLAM-Wiki as part of OpenGLAM (rather than just a predecessor), seems to be a way to join the conversation and improve the impact of our work. Distributed projects like #colorourcollection seem to have a similar level of enthusiasm as our #1lib1ref campaign -- we ought to examine how our engagement with other cultural heritage can also be part of these changing opportunities.Interactive and VR media - VR seems like a major gap in our current infrastructure -- we don't even have much in the way of immersive panaromic support, much less the range of other media types. Spending energy finding partners in this space might help us be a destination for GLAMs to store workproduct in this psace (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133526 ) Visualization + Open Data -- increasingly data analysts and data visualizations are being used within Museums and on their website with the growing power of Wikidata, its going to be worth having our visualization tools in your backpocket -- (check out Zika research from WikiCite : https://twitter.com/wikicite16/status/735845122903027712 or John's recent work on the Bioreserve material http://www.wikilovesearth.bio/ ) . I am also beginning conversations with the Maps and Graphs team at WMF about the GLAM-Wiki use cases for their tools, especially if they could be embedded externally like Commons media. These are all my initial thoughts -- please poke holes in them, ask questions, or propose any thoughts/challenges you might notice.
I am going to be hosting a session at Wikimania about the future of GLAM-Wiki, where we can think through what some of the opportunities are in this space -- please bring ideas, think about what ways you want to see GLAM-Wiki grow and change: https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Discussions/Glam
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
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Hey All,
The New Media Consoritium just put out their technologies and Museums
report. Its definitely worth a read, I hope you get a chance:
http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2016-mus
<http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2016-museum-edition/>
eum-edition/
<http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2016-museum-edition/>
A handful of highlights stand out to me in the GLAM-Wiki context:
- One of their "important policy" changes, is the *growing importance of
Networks, Consortia, and Alliances* to help museums solve technological
problems beyond individual organization capacity. This seems to have a lot
of oppportunity for our work: Alex Hinojo has been leading a lot of success
Catalonia, with the Catalan Public Library network:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Case_studies/Catalonia%27s_Network…
is the close thing to a consortia . Similarly, the York Museum Trust w/ Pat
Hadley, had a lot of scaling impact. Similarly. I have seen reports from
both WMDE and WMSV that suggest focusing on networks to create impact.
Instead of having a single organization buy in to our outreach, it might be
worth focusing more time and energy on strategically focused networks whose
main goal is expanding the capacity of oragnizations within the networks.
- *Digital humanities* -- one of the emerging technologies they focus on
is the analysis and interactive projects being developed by the cluster of
research called "digitial humanities". These projects are pushing a lot of
cultural heritage sharing with the public onto the internet in interactive
ways, with considerable integration with works being done by students. This
appears like an opportunity for us to think more about how we hybrize the
Wikimedia Education program and GLAM-Wiki with a focus on the humanities --
unlike the sciences where STEM outreach and the current version of the
Education Program have been very successful, there hasn't been much success
in expert engagement from the humanities in project like Wikidata and
Wikipedias. Also, this seems to be important for the diversity gaps that
Art+Feminism and other projects largely located in GLAMs would be well
suited to work on.
- *Social media* -- throughout the report, there is increased interest
in social media and external engagement with patrons/audiences. Making sure
that we maintain a social media presence, spreading the word of GLAM-Wiki
as part of OpenGLAM (rather than just a predecessor), seems to be a way to
join the conversation and improve the impact of our work. Distributed
projects like #colorourcollection seem to have a similar level of
enthusiasm as our #1lib1ref campaign -- we ought to examine how our
engagement with other cultural heritage can also be part of these changing
opportunities.
- *Interactive and VR media* - VR seems like a major gap in our current
infrastructure -- we don't even have much in the way of immersive panaromic
support, much less the range of other media types. Spending energy finding
partners in this space might help us be a destination for GLAMs to store
workproduct in this psace (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133526 )
- *Visualization + Open Data* -- increasingly data analysts and data
visualizations are being used within Museums and on their website with the
growing power of Wikidata, its going to be worth having our visualization
tools in your backpocket -- (check out Zika research from WikiCite :
https://twitter.com/wikicite16/status/735845122903027712 or John's
recent work on the Bioreserve material http://www.wikilovesearth.bio/ )
. I am also beginning conversations with the Maps and Graphs team at WMF
about the GLAM-Wiki use cases for their tools, especially if they could be
embedded externally like Commons media.
These are all my initial thoughts -- please poke holes in them, ask
questions, or propose any thoughts/challenges you might notice.
I am going to be hosting a session at Wikimania about the future of
GLAM-Wiki, where we can think through what some of the opportunities are in
this space -- please bring ideas, think about what ways you want to see
GLAM-Wiki grow and change:
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Discussions/Glam
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
--
Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Hi Teri,
This might be included in a video series that I'm producing. The videos are
likely to be available late this year, and I'm planning to discuss GLAM
tools, although time limitations will force tradeoffs regarding which
subjects the videos will cover. In the meantime, I'm pinging WMF's new GLAM
liason, Alex Stinson, who may be able to point you in the right direction
and/or may be able to create relevant documentation.
Pine
On May 27, 2016 09:05, "Teri Embrey" <tembrey(a)pritzkermilitary.org> wrote:
I second the desire for a laymen’s guide for partner analytics for GLAM
institutions. We report monthly to internal stakeholders on the Museum &
Library’s Wikipedia contributions. Having a guide to the analytics so that
we could better convey these statistics would be most appreciated.
--Teri Embrey
Theresa A. R. Embrey, MLIS
Chief Librarian
Pritzker Military Museum & Library
104 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60603
Email: tembrey(a)pritzkermilitary.org
Web: www.pritzkermilitary.org
Phone: 312.374.9333
Fax: 312.374.9314
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Thanks for sharing Arne!
I love these internationally focused donations. Have you been using Patty
Pan? ( I see that you note the GLAM-Wiki toolset for one of them).
Cheers,
Alex
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 7:36 AM, Arne Wossink <wossink(a)wikimedia.nl> wrote:
> (Apologies for cross-posting)
>
> Dear list-members,
>
> I would like to draw your attention to 3 digital collections originating
> from Dutch institutions that have recently been made available on Wikimedia
> Commons:
>
> 1. The African Studies Center
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika-Studiecentrum,_Leiden>, Leiden
> University, donated 756 images made by Roel Coutinho
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Guinea-Bissau_and_Senegal_1973-1…>,
> a Dutch MD working in Guinea-Bissau and Senegal between 1973 and 1974. The
> images show aspects of daily life such as food preparation, festivities and
> school and hospital buildings, among other things. The metadata (including
> Portuguese captions) were prepared by Michele Portatadino, the upload was
> done by Hans Muller using the GWToolset.
>
> 2. The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean
> Studies
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Netherlands_Institute_of_Southeast_Asia…>
> and Leiden University Library
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiden_University_Library> donated 3114
> images <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:KITLV_donation_2016>
> to Wikimedia Commons as a follow-up to an earlier donation containing
> 2400+ images
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:KITLV_donation_2015>. The new
> donation contains photos, lithos, drawings, watercolours showing people,
> landscapes, plantations, plants and butterflies from countries such as
> Suriname, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan and Singapore. The upload was
> carried out by Hans Muller.
>
> 3. The National Museum of World Cultures
> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17153751> (a merger of the former
> Tropenmuseum, the Museum Volkenkunde and the Afrika Museum) donated a collection
> of 720 images
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_the_Nationaal_Museum…>
> to Wikimedia Commons. This donation consists of photos of objects from the
> museum's collection, and of photos taken during Dutch scientific and
> military expeditions in Suriname and the Dutch East Indies.
>
> Best,
>
> Arne Wossink
>
> Projectleider / Project Lead Wikimedia Nederland
>
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Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
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I would recommend to everyone not to donate or collaborate with the WMF projects. At all.
The WMF only cares about donation dollars and actively supports bullies and abusers on their sites.
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------ Original message------From: Mike DupontDate: Thu, May 26, 2016 7:04 PMTo: North American Cultural Partnerships;Cc: Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public];Wikimedia Mailing List;Subject:Re: [GLAM-US] Classical piano performances on Wikimedia Commons and WikiRadio
I am going to ask my wife to donate a classical piano recording as well,
thanks,
mike
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 1:07 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There is so much good content on Wikimedia that it's difficult to choose what to highlight, and I try to be mindful of my number of posts to email lists. I feel that this is worth a special mention because it's beautiful and unusual. Courtesy of User:La Pianista, we have good quality recordings of classical piano works:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiradio/index.php?channel=La_Pianista
I particularly recommend her performance of Chopin's Scherzo No. 3: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chopin_-_Scherzo_No._3_%28re-recorded%…. Quote (admittedly opinionated!) from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scherzo_No._3_%28Chopin%29: "The Scherzo No. 3, Op. 39, in C-sharp minor by Frédéric Chopin, completed in 1839, was written in the abandoned monastery of Valldemossa on the Balearic island of Majorca, Spain. This is the most terse, ironic, and tightly constructed of the four scherzos, with an almost Beethovenian grandeur."
Hope you enjoy,
Pine
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There is so much good content on Wikimedia that it's difficult to choose
what to highlight, and I try to be mindful of my number of posts to email
lists. I feel that this is worth a special mention because it's beautiful
and unusual. Courtesy of User:La Pianista, we have good quality recordings
of classical piano works:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiradio/index.php?channel=La_Pianista
I particularly recommend her performance of Chopin's Scherzo No. 3:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chopin_-_Scherzo_No._3_%28re-recorded%…
<javascript:void(0)>. Quote (admittedly opinionated!) from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scherzo_No._3_%28Chopin%29
<javascript:void(0)>: "The Scherzo No. 3, Op. 39, in C-sharp minor by
Frédéric Chopin, completed in 1839, was written in the abandoned monastery
of Valldemossa on the Balearic island of Majorca, Spain. This is the most
terse, ironic, and tightly constructed of the four scherzos, with an almost
Beethovenian grandeur."
<javascript:void(0)>
Hope you enjoy,
Pine
Since the WMF doesnt want editors and would rather support bullies because they are admins, I ask again for someone to take my name off these distro lists.
Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE device
------ Original message------From: Pine WDate: Thu, May 26, 2016 1:07 AMTo: Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public];North American Cultural Partnerships;Wikimedia Mailing List;Subject:[GLAM-US] Classical piano performances on Wikimedia Commons and WikiRadio
There is so much good content on Wikimedia that it's difficult to choose what to highlight, and I try to be mindful of my number of posts to email lists. I feel that this is worth a special mention because it's beautiful and unusual. Courtesy of User:La Pianista, we have good quality recordings of classical piano works:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiradio/index.php?channel=La_Pianista
I particularly recommend her performance of Chopin's Scherzo No. 3: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chopin_-_Scherzo_No._3_%28re-recorded%…. Quote (admittedly opinionated!) from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scherzo_No._3_%28Chopin%29: "The Scherzo No. 3, Op. 39, in C-sharp minor by Frédéric Chopin, completed in 1839, was written in the abandoned monastery of Valldemossa on the Balearic island of Majorca, Spain. This is the most terse, ironic, and tightly constructed of the four scherzos, with an almost Beethovenian grandeur."
Hope you enjoy,
Pine
Hi everyone,
As you may have noticed in the Annual Plan, the Wikimedia Foundation has
proposed more support of GLAM-Wiki. I want to happily announce that *Alex
Stinson* will be expanding and transitioning his role as Wikipedia Library
Coordinator to lead this new position as *GLAM-Wiki Strategist *within the
Community Engagement department at WMF. He will continue to report and
work closely with me in Wikipedia Library land, which I'm very happy about!
I'll let Alex introduce himself and his thoughts on the position, why it
matters, and what its goals are.
Best,
Jake Orlowitz
User:Ocaasi (WMF)
Head of the Wikipedia Library
jorlowitz(a)wikimedia.org
--
Hi all!
I am particularly excited to be shifting towards helping with GLAM-Wiki
support. I plan to bring my long history of working in Wikimedia outreach,
first as a volunteer in GLAM and the Education program and then as an
employee with the Wikipedia Library, to improve our global GLAM impact [1].
As we point out in the proposed annual plan, [2] GLAM-Wiki has a long
history as a programmatic strategy for volunteers and affiliates. These
programs have collected some of our best content, pushed our technologies
beyond their limits, and created a considerable volume of contributions
from both Wikimedians and experts for over 8 years.
However, as these practices become more and more sophisticated and varied,
volunteers from smaller communities without connections to the leaders of
successful projects have found themselves unable to replicate this success,
or replicating many of the mistakes from earlier projects. At the same
time, larger initiatives have been hindered by a lack of investment in
infrastructure and technology.
WMF has been a great supporter of GLAM through grants and affiliate
support, but we can do more. We haven’t provided consistent global
connection, communication and support for GLAM-Wiki resources and tools.
My goal is to help GLAM spread throughout our communities and potentially
tens of thousands of organizations that - as folks like Liam Wyatt have
been advocating from the beginning - share our same values: freely sharing
knowledge with the world.
Below I have outlined our approach for the GLAM-Wiki Strategist role [3]. I
want to use the next few months to listen and evaluate the needs of the
communities actively involved in GLAM-Wiki work to make sure that I
prioritize projects correctly. I am also going to be at Wikimania, and have
already talked to a number of GLAM-Wiki leaders at Wikimedia Conference.
My role as strategist is to consult, collaborate, organize, and plan. So,
please reach out to me with your questions, thoughts, needs or other
feedback.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
astinson(a)wikimedia.org
[1] A little about me
I have been working with the Wikipedia Library since May 2014, developing
the Library’s publisher partnerships, building relationships with dozens of
community and language leaders across our volunteer movement, crafting a
broader strategy for engaging the largest libraries and international
reference networks, and project managing tool and metrics improvements for
our program.
I also designed and deployed the successful #1Lib1Ref campaign (1lib1ref.org)
that drew nearly 30,000 viewers, 5 million tweet-impressions, and hundreds
of participants from the library world to Wikipedia in our first ever
viral, global micro-contributions drive for quality improvement.
In my volunteer, time I try to stay active as User:Sadads, where I am
mostly active on English Wikipedia ( >98,000 edits). I have been actively
writing content about literature and novels since 2008. I have always
thought of our movement as a community with a lot of opportunities around
partnerships and collaboration.
I was also one of the early adopters of GLAM-Wiki in the US: While still
in college, I approached the Smithsonian in 2010 about a partnership,
establishing the dialogue which grew to one of our most successful
long-term cultural partners within the movement. I have learned from those
early attempts and have led GLAM-Wiki relationships with a handful of
smaller organizations while in school and as a volunteer.
I am also a long time supporter of the Education program: I was trained as
part of the Public Policy Initiative's first round of "Campus Ambassadors",
the project that became first the U.S. and then the Global Education
Programs.
I am based in Southern Vermont, where I enjoy hiking, the local and the
local food culture. In my spare time, I try to produce sustainable food
through my garden and homebrewing-- I just put in 4 rows of potatoes, and
am about to start most of my summer crops.
[2] *Annual Plan for GLAM*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2017/…
[3] Some thoughts on the GLAM-Wiki Strategist Role
What I hope to do:
* Help lead efforts to evaluate and improve our GLAM-Wiki documentation,
and develop resources that make GLAM-Wiki a more approachable strategy for
volunteers, especially in communities which don't have much experience in
partnerships with formal organizations.
* Connect with and learn from the network of community leaders supporting
partnerships with GLAM and other organizations
* Help document and share the most successful, repeatable GLAM-Wiki project
models coming from our communities.
* Connect community leaders and outside organizations who approach
Community Engagement and other Wikimedia Foundation departments about GLAM
partnerships with the best volunteer leaders, resources, or learning
materials.
* Communicate GLAM and GLAM-Wiki needs with teams and departments within
WMF, including Community Resources, Strategic Partnerships and Engineering
teams. I have already started these conversations, and hope to be able to
share what I have been working on in the next couple months.
* Support strategic movement relationships with global organizations
(IFLA, ICOM, UNESCO, OCLC, Internet Archive, etc ) which can expand
opportunities for GLAM-Wiki programming and partnerships by local
affiliates.
What I won't be doing:
* Creating partnerships with local cultural heritage organizations
* "Coordinating" in any strong sense of the word -- It's not my role to be
“in charge” of what others are doing in the GLAM-Wiki space -- instead my
aim is to facilitate access to better tools and resources that help community
leaders coordinate these partnerships more easily and effectively.
What I would like to learn from the community and GLAM program leaders in
the next few months:
* Where does our community of GLAM-outreach leaders need the most support?
* What are the greatest technology barriers preventing the creation of
easy-to-create and scalable relationships with cultural heritage
organizations?
* What are the best opportunities for expanding GLAM-Wiki strategies to new
or emerging communities with less partnership experience or affiliate
support?
* How can we help a greater range of Wikimedia volunteers participate in
partnerships with our GLAM allies?
I am very optimistic about the opportunities for GLAM-Wiki work, especially
as Wikimedia becomes leaders of open and linked data, through projects like
Wikidata -- and I want to make sure our communities have the tools and
support to take advantage of that leading role in sharing cultural heritage
knowledge around the world.
-Alex