Thanks for sharing this, Chris. The Cooper-Hewitt is definitely leading by example. I also like that they have published their list of people/institutions in their collections database who don't have Wikipedia articles: https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/not-from/wikipedia/. While not every entity on this list is automatically notable, it is an interesting starting place for design-oriented Wikimedians who may be looking to create some new articles.
Providing a ready-made citation template on collections pages is a great way for GLAMs to be Wikipedia-friendly, and is not that technically daunting to develop. I have definitely put it on my to-do list!
Sara (User:Sarasays)
P.S. - You can tweet them your appreciation/encouragement at @cooperhewittlab<https://twitter.com/cooperhewittlab>
Sara Snyder
Webmaster, Archives of American Art
Smithsonian Institution
(202) 633-7987 | www.aaa.si.edu<http://www.aaa.si.edu/>
More evidence of museums getting on board with Wikipedia!
The Cooper Hewitt Design Museum has released a new online collections
database that includes auto-generated Wikipedia links for every object!
The site itself is very cool:
http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/
Here's an example of the generated link:
If you would like to cite this object in a Wikipedia article please use the
following template:
<ref name=CH>{{cite web |url=
http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18328843/ |title=Printing Block,
1931-71-23, 18th century |author=Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design
Museum |accessdate=19 December 2012 |publisher=Smithsonian
Institution}}</ref>
http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18328843/
Also, their code is available on Github and the developers have a blog:
http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/
Nice to see the Smithsonian leading the way!
Chris Leeder
School of Information
University of Michigan
Hello,
I wanted make the Wikimedia community aware of an event that Melanie Kill
of the University of Maryland Department of English and MITH are running
next month as part of our Digital Humanities Winter Institute (DHWI):
Public Digital Humanities: Wikipedia DH Edit-a-thon
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
5:50-7:00 PM
http://mith.umd.edu/dhwi/events/edit-a-thon/
All are welcome.
DHWI is delighted to partner with Melanie Kill of the Department of English
at the University of Maryland to offer a Public DH Event: the Wikipedia DH
Edit-A-Thon.
We invite DHWI attendees—as well as Wikipedians and digital humanists in
the DC region—to join us for an evening of Wikipedia editing. We’ll talk a
bit about the core content policies of Wikipedia and guidelines relevant to
contributing in one’s area of expertise, offer some tips and tricks for
navigating the resources, and then get online and begin sharing our
knowledge and skills.
All experience levels are welcome. Tables will be organized so that those
interested in particular tasks (copyediting, wikifying, linking out to GLAM
and DH resources, etc.) or articles (see ideas below) can team up.
Adventurous souls can even start a new article.
Please see http://mith.umd.edu/dhwi/events/edit-a-thon/ for more
information.
Best,
Trevor
on behalf of DHWI
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Trevor Muñoz
Assistant Dean for Digital Humanities Research, University of Maryland
Libraries
Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
(MITH)
301.405.9528 | @trevormunoz on Twitter | http://trevormunoz.com
Hi all,
Thought this wiki meetup and GLAM event would be interesting to all on the
list. In case you have friends/colleagues in the San Francisco Bay Area, we
are staging an event coordinated with the Computer History Museum to get a
backstage tour and to brainstorm about their upcoming exhibit about
Wikipedia (to debut late 2013).
Please spread the word to friends and non-Wikipedians alike. The Museum is
right near the Googleplex and is an amazing facility.
Myself: I'm driving five hours from Los Angeles for the event, so those
from afar are definitely welcome!
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
MEETUP ANNOUNCEMENT
San Francisco Bay Area Wiki Meetup at the Computer History Museum
Time: Wednesday, December 12, 2012, 4pm to 8pm.
Location: Computer History Museum, Mountain View, Calif.
Meet Wikipedians and help edit a museum exhibit about Wikipedia!
The purpose of the meet up is twofold:
1. Meet fellow Wikipedians in the San Francisco Bay/Silicon Valley area
while getting a behind the scenes tour of the Computer History Museum.
2. Help edit this exhibit! The Museum is crafting an exhibit about
Wikipedia that will debut in 2013. What should an exhibit about Wikipedia
have? How should it display Wikipedia's activities, live, for visitors? Who
better than ask than Wikipedians. Meet the museum staff to brainstorm
around ideas and how to display and visualize Wikipedia to the public.
Who should attend: Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians alike, but especially
museum or technology enthusiasts
Address: Computer History Museum,
1401 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View, California.
Contact: Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado), Wikipedian
Email: andrew [at] andrewlih [dot] com
RSVP and info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Computer_History_Museum
Museum participants:
Kirsten Tashev, VP of Collections and Exhibitions
Marc Weber, Internet History Program Founding Curator
Emily Routman, Contract Exhibit Planner
Jon Plutte, Director of Media
Dear all,
The
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Pi%C5%82sudski_Institute_of_America
is looking for a WiR person. I thought this group is the best place to
annouce this, but please feel free to fwd this more widely. The
announcement can be read here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yAqKS0iAfmLmDVGov-vy_C0mBZibov_Qh8OX5LS…
I am copying it below for your convenience:
Wikipedian in Residence
The Piłsudski Institute of America seeks volunteers to serve as
Wikipedian in Residence (WiR). The volunteer is expected to have
experience in writing the Wikipedia content and first hand knowledge of
Wikipedia best practices. A person speaking English and Polish (at least
to some degree) is preferred.
The tasks of the WiR will largely depend on his/her experience with
Wikipedia projects and interests. Developing Wikipedia content to expand
the Wikipedia coverage of Polish-Americans and Polish-American
institutions is a major and important task; the Institute is a source of
valuable information that can be used in creating such material.
Educational projects and events such as Wikipedia Initiative, with the
Institute support, could bring cutting-edge teaching initiatives to all
courses worldwide which focus on Poland and Polish-American culture and
heritage. The Institute is also involved in a range of digitization
projects, and a WiR with interest in data and metadata can work on
bridging the archival metadata standards with Wikipedia. Those are just
examples of wide range of exciting possibilities.
Please contact office(a)pilsudski.org for more information and to apply.
PS. The Institute is also looking to network with Wikipedians in the NY
area, so anyone who would like to help with the outreach there is more
then welcome to contact them at the above address, too!
--
Piotr Konieczny
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus
Last night the Graduate Center of the City University of New York held a
panel discussion with four museum professionals:
Christina DePaolo, Balboa Park Online Collaborative
Michael Edson, Smithsonian Institution
William Noel, University of Pennsylvania
Neal Stimmler, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The web announcement for the event is here:
http://cunydhi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/11/07/wednesday-november-28-the-com…
Although the evening was billed as a session on museums and digital
humanities, it was devoted to thoughts, ideas and strategies about museums
engaging with the digital world. Although Wikipedia was mentioned only
once, all of these individuals appeared extremely determined to open their
collections to the public through digitization, and creating/adding value
to them by harnessing the knowledge of the communities that are attracted
to them.
One of the questions at the end wondered why all the institutions used
Flickr instead of their own websites. The responses made an argument for
being "out there," that people will find the materials more easily when
they're on Flickr than if kept within the museums' sites.
You can still catch most of the tweets if you search the hashtag: #cunydhi
I mention it here because they video-recorded the panel. I strongly
suspect the video could become a forceful argument for convincing
organizations to partner with GLAM-Wiki people. I'll watch out for when
the video become available and maybe someone can post the link on the
Wikimedia GLAM pages.
--
Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts,
Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
blog: http://www.nypl.org/blog/author/44 Twitter: @kos2
Listowner: OPERA-L ; SMT-TALK ; SMT-ANNOUNCE ; SoundForge-users
- My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my institutions -
FYI
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mr. Puneet Kishor <punkish(a)creativecommons.org>
Date: Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:58 PM
Subject: [cc-staff] Copyright, Museums, and Licensing of Art Images —
Columbia Copyright Advisory Office
To: "cc-staff(a)lists.ibiblio.org all" <cc-staff(a)lists.ibiblio.org>
A nice web site detailing a study of museum policies and licenses, an
analog of what Billy and I are doing for data repositories.
http://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/2011/06/27/copyright-museums-and-li…
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Puneet Kishor
Science and Data Policy at Creative Commons
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Jane Park
Project Manager <http://creativecommons.org/staff#janepark>
Creative Commons
School of Open, a collaboration with P2PU: http://schoolofopen.org
I've not heard of any WiRs in Minnesota yet, so I may be the closest you get. I'm a GLAM-Wiki outreach volunteer and librarian based in St Paul. I would love to be involved however I can be of assistance.
-János "McGhiever" McGhie
Hi folks,
Is there someone who is currently serving as Wikipedian-in-Residence at the
Walker Arts Center? Or someone else in Minneapolis - or even Chicago? Or
is there a previous WiR who could be in Minneapolis during June 2013?
Merrilee Profitt (of OCLC) and I would like to propose a session about
Wikipedia/Wikimedia/GLAM, etc. at the forthcoming RBMS preconference (Rare
Books and Manuscripts Section of the American Library Association) which
meets in Minneapolis in June 2013. It would be nice to have a person who
is actually participating in a project or has done so in the past.
Let me know! Thanks!
--
Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts,
Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
blog: http://www.nypl.org/blog/author/44 Twitter: @kos2
Listowner: OPERA-L ; SMT-TALK ; SMT-ANNOUNCE ; SoundForge-users
- My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my institutions -
Fyi.
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From: Neal Stimler <neal.stimler(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 7:33 AM
Subject: The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums - CUNYDHI
To:
*Dear Colleagues,
We welcome you to the upcoming event, “The Commons and Digital Humanities
in Museums,” to be held at The Graduate Center, CUNY on November 28th from
6:30PM-8:30PM in the Skylight Room (9th Floor, Room 9100). This panel will
explore the impact of the digital humanities and diverse implications of
the formation of commons by museums. Speakers include Matthew K. Gold, Neal
Stimler, Michael Edson, Will Noel and Christina DePaolo. Details of the
event can be found on the CUNY Center for the Humanities website (
http://centerforthehumanities.org/events/The-Commons-and-Digital-Humanities…
).
We invite you to attend in person or watch via the livestream (
http://live.commons.gc.cuny.edu/). Please tweet using the hashtag #cunydhi
and follow @cunydhi on Twitter (http://twitter.com/cunydhi). Please
contribute images of the live event or stream to the Flickr group (
http://www.flickr.com/groups/cunydhi/).
If you have any questions about the event, please contact Neal Stimler (
neal.stimler(a)gmail.com) or Matthew K. Gold (mattgold(a)gmail.com) for further
details.
Best Regards,
Neal Stimler & Matthew K. Gold
Neal Stimler
@nealstimler
neal.stimler(a)gmail.com
Matthew K. Gold
@mkgold
mattgold(a)gmail.com*
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Jane Park
Project Manager <http://creativecommons.org/staff#janepark>
Creative Commons
School of Open, a collaboration with P2PU: http://schoolofopen.org