Hello all,
The Mid-Year Report for the position of US Cultural Partnerships'
Coordinator is now available. >
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Mid-Year_Report
This includes Highlights of the past months, details on the GLAM-Wiki US
Consortium, Challenges, and Implications.
I'm happy to hear your thoughts!
Best,
Lori
*Cross-posting to GLAM-L, Cultural Partners, Internal, Wikimedia-L*
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Lori Phillips
Digital Marketing Content Coordinator
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/
Hello all!
I'd like to re-open the conversation about the GLAM-Wiki US Consortium [1]
and thank those of you who have added your thoughts to the talk page, added
your name as interested, or signed up as an affiliate organization. (And I
hope many more of you will!)
I'm excited to announce that we now have a confirmed advisory group! This
group is made up of around six cultural professionals (with libraries,
archives, and museums all represented), and around six Wikipedians who will
help lead in establishing the core goals of the Consortium and our best
path forward. The full list can be found on the Consortium page [2]. Thank
you to the GLAM professionals, GLAM-Wikimedians, and current/former WMF
board members who have offered their time to help steer the Consortium!
We have also begun a list of principles [3], which serve as a foundation
for the focus of the GLAM Consortium. Please do share your thoughts on
these as we continue to fine tune them.
One of the main questions left to be answered is the appropriate structure
that the Consortium should take.
Specifically, *What platforms for discussion and information dispersal are
most immediately useful & relevant?*
The most important goal is to have a system for both sharing information &
discussing emerging ideas that is useful for BOTH GLAM professionals and
Wikipedians. Sara Snyder pointed out the usefulness of a blog (thanks
Sara!) and I agree that a blog can be a great method for broadcast. In
fact, thanks to Mike Peel and Dominic, we now have a Wordpress blog space
ready to be fixed up! (... still working on that, but hopefully I'll have
news soon : ).
That said, I also feel that we need a formal structure for non-Wikipedians
and Wikipedians to be able to comfortably discuss GLAM-related topics. This
is something of a new challenge. I personally feel that we should think
through some new ground rules. In order to be less intimidating (or even
just less time consuming) for non-Wikipedians, we should consider always
replying on-list (or in the email thread) in order that everyone will see
it. The usual situation is that we haphazardly discuss things in an email
until someone pipes up and says "this should be on-wiki; let's move this to
the talk page!" And that's fine too, but we should be cognizant that in
this new mix of people, moving things completely to a talk page will lose
important eyeballs. Likely things should just be replicated on-wiki.
Happy to hear everyone's thoughts on this and all manner of everything else
Consortium-related.
Best,
Lori
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Consortium
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Consortium#Advisory_Group_Me…
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Consortium#Principles
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Lori Phillips
Digital Marketing Content Coordinator
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/
Here's the playlist I made to compile all of the GLAM-Wiki session videos
at Wikimania:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0D29D4F1A5C44E8F&feature=plcp
Sorry if someone else has done this, but I didn't notice one and I needed
an easier link for the GLAM-Wiki social queues. : )
I'll be updating as the videos come in. I know that they're not all up yet.
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Lori Phillips
Digital Marketing Content Coordinator
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/
Hello all,
About a year and a half ago I was incredibly inspired by a talk that Koven
Smith, Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, gave at Ignite
Smithsonian. His concept has evolved from "What's the point of the museum
website?" to "the Kinetic museum," and essentially validates our work with
GLAM-Wiki by saying what we always say, "Use external platforms, go where
the people are. [and as one example...] Use Wikipedia."
This year, at MuseumNext Barcelona in May, he was even bolder in his urging
museums to adopt external platforms, and he has an entire portion of his
talk in which he very clearly articulates to museum professionals why they
are pretty much crazy to be re-writing the same content on their
collections databases over and over, when really they should just be using
Wikipedia.
The video is here: http://vimeo.com/47589803
I'll note that he's a fast-talking-American, so it may be tough for
translations. But here is a transcript of the portion about Wikipedia. It's
truly great content for your "why Wikipedia?" questions of GLAM
professionals. AND it's coming from a GLAM professional (not us), which is
what's so refreshing. Be sure to attribute Koven if you use any of this!
(And let me know if you do; he'll be glad to hear it : ).
Building on this concept of an ongoing evolutionary construction rather
> than growing your own content is looking at communications.
>
>
We need to recognize that museums are part of a content ecosystem now
> rather than the totality of that ecosystem. Developing information
> resources that compete with Wikipedia is insane. Developing information
> resources that compete with other museums is insane-r. There’s no reason
> for us to own content that is not unique to us; all it does is weigh us
> down and prevent us from moving faster.
>
So instead of positioning ourselves as an alternative resource to those
> information resources that already exist we have to learn how to use them
> to our advantage. I can’t imagine that if museums didn’t already exist,
> that we would initiate them by saying, “we’re going to be a competing
> information resource to Wikipedia, but we’ll be *way* better because
> we’ve got the power of scholarship behind us.” That ship has sailed.
> Wikipedia is more important as an information resource than any other
> single institution. We need to accept that and figure out how to work with
> it.
>
Wikipedia and resources like it are going to adapt to cultural shifts and
> interpretation way faster than you are and without you having to expend
> those resources. So instead of developing a competing artist biography,
> just use Wikipedia’s. That way when an artist dies or changes their working
> location, it’s no longer a “somebody has to change that information in the
> object record” problem. It’s already been done for you by the Wikipedia
> community. And now you don’t have to change anything.
>
This is one of the reasons why I like the Brooklyn Museum’s WikiLink
> project, recognizing that as a fact. It’s a resource that’s out there, it
> allows us to get in very deep with content, without actually having to own
> all of that process from end to end.
>
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Lori Phillips
Digital Marketing Content Coordinator
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/
Hi Wiki-American photography and architecture enthusiasts,
'Wikipedia Takes America' is coming up in September, and I'd like to
encourage you to start a page for your city/region with this event
wizard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America#Event_page_w…
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Just wanted to let everyone know about this upcoming event. Please share if
you know anyone in the DC area.
Dominic
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From: Ed Summers <ehs(a)pobox.com>
Date: 8 August 2012 13:22
Subject: [wikimedia-dc] August 13th at the Library of Congress: Cultural
Institutions and Wikipedia: a Mutually Beneficial Relationship
To: Wikimedia DC chapter mailing list <wikimedia-dc(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
My apologies if this has been announced already. I imagine the current
Wikipedian in Residence at the National Archives is a known quantity
to many of you already. Dominic graciously agreed to visit to the
Library of Congress to talk about his experience working with
Wikipedia at NARA. The talk is open to the public so please feel free
to spread the word. I'm personally hoping that Dominic's visit will be
an opportunity to talk about how LC (and ogs) can use and promote
Wikipedia more effectively.
//Ed
Cultural Institutions and Wikipedia: a Mutually Beneficial Relationship
Dominic McDevitt-Parks
1:30 - 3:00
6th floor, James Madison Memorial Building
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cultural_Institutions_and_Wikipedia.…
Over the past few years, cultural institutions have formed
partnerships with Wikipedia in order to increase their visibility on
the web and connect with a vibrant community of online volunteers. As
a purpose-driven, non-profit educational project, Wikipedia and its
sister sites have shared values and interests with cultural
institutions that are only now being fully realized. The National
Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has become an enthusiastic
and vocal participant in this movement to build bridges with Wikipedia
and its community in the past year. Using specific examples,
McDevitt-Parks will discuss how NARA views the partnership as a
vehicle for increasing access to holdings, citizen engagement, and
openness, while addressing practical concerns and challenges
institutions will likely face if they choose to become involved.
Dominic McDevitt-Parks is the Wikipedian in Residence at the National
Archives and Records Administration and has served in that role since
May 2011. He came to NARA from the Archives Management program at
Simmons College and also holds a B.A. in history from Reed College. He
has been a volunteer Wikipedia contributor since 2004.
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Please read below for some important updates regarding the Wikipedia Loves
Monuments initiative within the US. I hope you'll take part!
Best,
Lori
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From: Matthew Roth <mroth(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:21 PM
Subject: [Wmfall] Wiki Loves Monuments - US
To: "Staff (All)" <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
As mentioned yesterday at the metrics meeting, the organizing for WLM-US is
ramping up. Sarah Stierch, Ryan Kaldari and I have been keeping a candle
lit the past couple months hoping chapter and community folks would step up
and organize the national event, but fearing that it might just be a SF Bay
Area thing. Fortunately, in the past few weeks, folks at Wikimedia DC have
stepped up (what did they organize something else big recently??) and very
fortunately, User:Smallbones
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Smallbones>has stepped up big time.
Smallbones is an active member of WikiProject
National Register of Historic Places
(WP:NRHP<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Nrhp>),
which has spent the past 5 years organizing and categorizing the 87,000
buildings, sites, statues, and districts that make up the register. This is the
primary list <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RHPs> that we will be
using for the monuments and come September User:Multichill will turn on a
neat feature that syncs the list with the Upload Wizard in Commons and
automatically adds a category and the reference number associated to the
list with the photos you upload. Assuming no hiccups, it's gonna rock!
At present, there are 35 countries planning to participate, up from 18 last
year and located all over the world (think WLM Panama and WLM
Philippines). Couple that with the new WLM app and we might have a lot of
photos uploaded :)
We have a lovely website that you can check out, though it will get
lovelier soon:
http://wikilovesmonuments.us/
As of yesterday we just got our 6th member of the jury. Sarah and
Smallbones made sure it's a dope jury. We'll see if a few more invitations
are returned favorably, but we're quite happy with this group.
- Carol Highsmith <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Highsmith>, who
has over 20k photos in the Library of Congress
- Rick Prelinger <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Prelinger>, of the
Prelinger Archive.
- David Shankbone <http://blog.shankbone.org/about/>, photographer
well-known for his photos of Occupy Wall Street and who has uploaded a ton
of photos to Commons
- Heather Moran, photographer and archivist at the San Francisco
Municipal Transportation Agency (yeah, MUNI). She's done some cool work
with QR Codes and as a result of asking her to be on the jury, I imagine
she and Smallbones might be collaborating on some other stuff going forward.
- Howard Cheng, Featured Picture guru/czar (insert appropriate title)
who also helps run the Picture of the Year voting on Commons.
- Daniel Case, active in WP:NRHP and other photo projects.
If you're interested, we can still use help with a number of things:
- *Sponsors/prizes*: we need swag to lure in the newbies :) If you have
connections with camera companies, please let us know. We've reached out to
most of the big companies, but given the late start or given their prize
policies, we're not having a lot of success yet (Canon will only give to
contests where participants make 70% of their income from photography, for
instance). Also connections to mobile phone manufactures, tablet makers,
etc. Whatever you might have in mind, we'd love to hear from you.
- *Events*: we're organizing photo walks and scanathons, but we can't
have too many events. Frank is going to do a wine country monument tour by
bicycle (or something like that:). We'll have SF/Oakland/Berkeley pretty
well dialed. But maybe a gold country road trip is in order? Trip to Los
Angeles or San Diego? The state is big and the monuments are
many<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RHPs_in_CA>
.
- *Outreach*: Help us reach out to photo groups, history buffs,
architectural societies, etc. I'm happy to discuss.
- *Lists*: In her copious free time;) Sarah is feverishly compiling the
list of California Historic sites on Wikipedia. Looking at her user
contributions, it seems she's through the letter K, with Kern County. I'm
sure she wouldn't mind some help getting to Yuba County.
*Other resources:*
International site here: http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/
Planning/coordination site here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012
Listserv: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
And it's not too early to start taking photos. It doesn't matter for the
contest when you shot it, only that you upload it in September.
thanks,
Matthew
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Wikimedia Foundation
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/
*Cross-posted with glam-l, cultural partners, and com-com.*
I'm proud to say that WikiProject: Public Art, which was my gateway into
the world of Wikipedia back in the fall of 2009, has received coverage in
the New York Times Arts Beat blog. Richard McCoy, conservator of objects at
the Indianapolis Museum of Art, has been pulling together the resources for
a project surrounding the documentation of Tony Smith artworks in Wikipedia
(using WP:Public Art), which is the focus of the piece.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/project-enlists-the-public-to-…
Let me know if you have any interest or further questions about this
initiative. I'll put you in contact with Richard.
Best,
Lori
Project Enlists the Public to Document Outdoor Sculpture by Tony SmithBy RANDY
KENNEDY <http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/author/randy-kennedy/>
Art conservation can be a rarefied field, but a new project being announced
by the North American branch of the International Network for the
Conservation of Contemporary Art <http://incca-na.org/> is taking a
decidedly populist approach.
The group, which promotes collaboration among professional conservators,
artists and collectors, has started a program in which members of the
public are being asked to help locate, document and photograph outdoor
sculptures made by the Minimalist artist Tony
Smith<http://www.matthewmarks.com/new-york/artists/tony-smith/>,
who created more than 100 such pieces. While many of the sculptures are in
public spaces and are well-known, there is no complete inventory of the
sites or condition of outdoor works by Mr. Smith, who died in 1980. (Sept.
23 will be the 100th anniversary of his birth.)
And so the conservation group is asking Smith fans to take their cameras
and notebooks to “work together and complete the project by using two of
the most-visited Web sites, Wikipedia and Flickr,” to “dramatically
increase awareness about these works and therefore allow for the continued
advocacy for their proper care and maintenance.” Information collected on
the works will be organized and listed at the Wikipedia site WikiProject
Public Art <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Public_Art>.
“We live in a world where every single one of the more than 500 television
episodes of ‘The Simpsons’ has a well-researched Wikipedia article devoted
to it, but by comparison there is practically no information about many of
the greatest artworks of the 20thcentury,” said Richard McCoy, a member of
the conservation group and a founder of WikiProject Public Art. “This
project can serve as a model and demonstrate the importance of documenting
contemporary art while highlighting the significance of one of America’s
most renowned artists.”
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Lori Phillips
Digital Marketing Content Coordinator
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/
Hello everyone and welcome to our new list subscribers!
About two weeks ago I shared information on the GLAM-Wiki US Consortium,
which we officially launched at the GLAM Night Out event at the Newseum
during Wikimania. We were also lucky enough to have the launch reiterated
by the Archivist of the United States, David Ferriero, during the closing
plenary.
The defining goal of the Consortium is to bring GLAM professionals together
with Wikipedians to work and discuss more efficiently together - and we've
definitely started off on the right foot! Already we have many
organizations, cultural professionals, and Wikipedians who are interested
in being a part of the GLAM-US Consortium. So with this momentum, it's
truly time to come together and establish a useful structure for this
network.
I urge you to join the conversation and help to establish what the
Consortium will look like, both in the short-term and long-term.
Things you can do:
- *Read *through this one-page overview of the Consortium's broad goals: *
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Consortium*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Consortium>
- *Sign up* as an affiliate organization, chapter, or individual if you are
interested in taking part.
- *Share* your thoughts on the Consortium on the* talk page*, if you're
comfortable doing so, or on this *email list*.
- You can specifically address the following questions:
- What platforms for discussion and information dispersal are most
immediately useful & relevant to you?
- What organizational structures should be aimed for in the future?
- What funding models could be pursued in the future?
I have cc'd the Libraries list and the global GLAM list on this email just
as an FYI. In the future, all discussion of the GLAM-US Consortium will be
centralized here on the GLAM-US list. If you are on these other lists and
are interested in taking part, please sign up here:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam-us
With the abundance of talks, events, and praise for GLAM last week at
Wikimania, I've never been more proud to be a part of this incredible
global community. I'm really excited to see where the GLAM-US Consortium
might lead - in particular in bringing cultural professionals more
coherently into the conversation.
Thanks for your time and I look forward to hearing your thoughts!
Best,
Lori
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Lori Phillips
Digital Marketing Content Coordinator
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
http://loribyrdphillips.com/
Please share this around, for those who might want to host a
'Wikipedia Loves Libraries' event in October/November:
http://bit.ly/wikiloveslib
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)