GLAM February 2013

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Wikipedian In Residence at Queen Street Textile Mill Museum, Burnley
by Andy Mabbett 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

My role as as Wikipedian in Residence at Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Service comes to an end next week (though I shall continue an informal relationship with them as a volunteer). As that ends, I shall become part time Wikipedian In Residence at Queen Street Textile Mill Museum, Burnley <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Street_Mill> for a few weeks. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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White House memo increases access to taxpayer-funded research
by Dominic McDevitt-Parks 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

I wanted to share this news, since it does not seem to have come up yet. A new White House memo, in response to an online petition, has created a policy that will increase the amount of U.S. taxpayer-funded research which must be made open access. It specifically refers to the NIH policy as a model. Here is a quote from the petition response<https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/increasing-public-access-results-…> authored by John Holdren, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (i.e., the science czar): Americans should have easy access to the results of research they help > support. > To that end, I have issued a memorandum today (.pdf)<http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_a…>to Federal agencies that directs those with more than $100 million in > research and development expenditures to develop plans to make the results > of federally-funded research publically available free of charge within 12 > months after original publication. As you pointed out, the public access > policy adopted by the National Institutes of Health has been a great > success. And while this new policy call does not insist that every agency > copy the NIH approach exactly, it does ensure that similar policies will > appear across government. The Huffington Post also covered the story here: < http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/25/aaron-swartz-white-house-taxpayer-… >. Dominic

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Wikimania Debate: GLAMourous edits for a few dollars more - call for participation
by Barbara Fischer 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

dear list colleagues, preparing a slot on paid editing in the GLAM-field on the Wikimania<http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_page> 2013, we are looking for debate willing GLAM activists to join us. These days the discussion on paid editing has climbed new peaks<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Die_Grenzen_der_Bezahlung> among the German speaking community. Paid editing is probably a topic in your chapter and especially it is for GLAM activists, isn't it? Let us share our stories we had with paid editing in the GLAM-field. I assume, we all want to motivate GLAM staff to contribute to Wikimedia projects not only by content but by edits too. Naturally they will do it during their working hours. It is their job they do. Well, many consider paid editing for the GLAM-cause as acceptable. But we think, it needs a transparent and evident checklist easy to handle for every GLAM author. Authors need to feel safe that their effort will not be banned only because the were paid for editing. And we need to be sure what we want. The edit of a GLAM author is only a good and valuable edit if it fulfills certain standards. We all agree. But these standards need to be defined. Let's discuss advocacy versus the need to be well represented in the Wikipedia. How to mediate the interests of volunteer authors and paid ones. How to make transparent that this edit was motivated by still other interests than the noble one of free knowledge These are some of the thoughts, Dirk Franke and I would like to debate with You in all its pros and contras at the Wikimania. Please join our preparation group "GLAMourous edits for a few dollars more". For more information in English see http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/23/german-community-project-about-paid-ed…" and feel free to share your thoughts. About us: Dirk Franke runs Community Project about the future of paid editing on the German Wikipedia. For one year he is a kind of a fellow of the German Wikipedia community and the German Wikimedia chapter. Barbara Fischer works as curator for cultural partnerships for Wikimedia Deutschland. thanks Barbara Fischer Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Fwd: Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition catalogues (1870-1939) digitised and available via the RA website
by Andy Mabbett 19 Feb '13

19 Feb '13

This is sure to be of interest to many of you: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Adam Waterton" <Adam.Waterton(a)royalacademy.org.uk> Date: Feb 19, 2013 8:19 AM Subject: Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition catalogues (1870-1939) digitised and available via the RA website To: <MCG(a)jiscmail.ac.uk> Some of you may be interested in a new resource that has just been added to the Royal Academy of Arts Collections website. The Royal Academy Winter loan Exhibition catalogues from their inception in 1870 to 1939 have been digitised in their entirety and are now available to search and browse online via the Royal Academy Website. www.racollection.org.uk<http://www.racollection.org.uk/> >From their inception in 1870 through to the outbreak of the First World War the format of the RA Winter exhibitions remained fairly constant; generally consisting of Old Master paintings borrowed from private collections accompanied by works by recently deceased British artists. From 1920 onwards the exhibitions programme began to evolve and the RA started to organise major art historical survey exhibitions drawing upon expert scholarship such as Flemish & Belgian Art 1300-1900 (1927), Italian Art 1200-1900 (1930) and French Art 1200-1900 (1932). In addition, for the first time, supplementary illustrated catalogues began to be published, in tandem with the traditional un-illustrated `lists of works`. As well as including reproductions of c.3000 of the works shown in the exhibitions, these illustrated catalogues included introductory essays by renowned art historians such as Sir James G. Mann (1897-1962), Sir Robert Witt (1872-1952) and Adolfo Venturi (1856-1941). These catalogues are now available to browse and search online via the Royal Academy website< http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=tem… > Many of the works lent to these exhibitions now reside in major museum and gallery collections such as Tate, National Gallery of Ireland, Yale Center for British Art, Wallace Collection, etc. We have included thumbnail images of many of these works, with embedded hotlinks to take the researcher to the pages on the owner institutions website where larger images and more information can be found. We've also digitised a selection of installation photographs from the RA's Photo Archive which show how the exhibitions were displayed. How it works: Click on the RA Collections<http://www.racollection.org.uk/> landing page ( www.racollection.org.uk<http://www.racollection.org.uk/>) Browse On the RA Collections page click on the Exhibition Catalogue< http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=tem…> link to view thumbnail images of the title pages of each catalogue. Click on a thumbnail image to display a large image of the title-page. Use the Next & Previous buttons to browse through the catalogue. You can also enter search terms in the Search within the catalogue box to search for artists, titles and lenders within the catalogue. This will display a list of the pages on which your search terms were found. Below the catalogue pages you will also find thumbnail images of some of the works that were exhibited in the exhibitions. Clicking on a thumbnail image will take you to a page displaying a larger image and more information about that work. Searching You can search across all the catalogues in two ways: 1: Enter a search term in the quick search box at the top of the RA Collections homepage. This will search through all the exhibition catalogues as well as the RA's own collections of works of art, historic books and archives. 2: Click on the Search Exhibition Catalogues< http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=tem…> option on the RA Collections homepage. >From here you can search by exhibition title, exhibition date, or carry out a free-text search of the entire contents of the catalogues for the names of artists, lenders or titles of works. We are very excited to be able to make this resource available electronically to the international research community via the web. This project was made possible with funding from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, to whom we are extremely grateful. Any feedback and comments that you have about the resource will be gratefully received and will help us to refine and improve it in future. Regards, Adam Adam Waterton Head of Library Services Royal Academy of Arts Burlington House Piccadilly London W1V 0DS T: 020 7300 5740 | F: 020 7300 5765 | E: adam.waterton(a)royalacademy.org.uk <mailto:adam.waterton@royalacademy.org.uk> Royal Academy Library and Archive www.royalacademy.org.uk/collectionsandlibrary< http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/collectionsandlibrary> The Royal Academy of Arts Collection Online www.racollection.org.uk<http://www.racollection.org.uk/> The Royal Academy of Arts is a registered charity under Registered Charity Number 1125383 and is also registered as a company limited by guarantee in England and Wales under Company Number 6298947. 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Organize Wiki Loves Public Art in your country!
by John Andersson 12 Feb '13

12 Feb '13

Hello all! As you might have already heard, the very first Wiki Loves Public Art (WLPA) photo contest will take place in May 2013. This is a contest that is inspired by the success of the Wiki Loves Monuments, but as the name suggests the focus is on public art, either outdoors or in museums (see more about how museums can be involved here). The basic structure of the contest is set up and we are looking for local Wikimedia chapters to organize the contest in their country, or in a region, a city or perhaps just in a few museums as a pilot. Thus far teams are working to organize the contest in Sweden, Austria and Barcelona but the more the merrier, so if you think that this could be something for your chapter, please let us know as soon as possible! To make participation to the photo contest easier, the international organizing team can help you for example with setting up the lists of artworks on Wikipedia and to sort through the basic rules of the contest. In addition, in case you cannot find your own sponsors, we will be able to provide a prize for the winning picture of your local contest (around 100-150 euros, depending on the number of countries/regions participating). To find out more see the international WLPA website as well as the WLPA page on Wikimedia Commons. On the website there is also a neat instruction and all the files needed to set up your own version of the website in your language. You are also more than welcome to email the international coordinator or the WLPA email list for any questions or comments as well as if you would like to contribute or participate in the contest! Please forward this to anyone you think could be interested! Cheers, John - - - - John Andersson Wikimedia Sweden Project Leader Europeana Awareness Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se Skype: johnandersson86 Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/English for more information about our project! Vill du stödja fri kunskap? Bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige! / Would you like to support free knowledge? Please consider becoming a member of Wikimedia Sweden!

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remove me from you rlists please
by Debra Fehr 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

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GLAM logo in Project Templates
by Paula Kate Marmor 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

We've talked about increasing the visibility of GLAM on Wikipedia. I noticed that (in EN at least) our project templates don't mention GLAM in the visible text at all. I wonder if we should consider: - Adding the "square" GLAM logo on the right in project templates that don't already have in image on the right, linked to the WP's main GLAM page (in EN, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM). - Adding text in the project description such as "one of Wikipedia's Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) initiatives" (also linked). What do you think? Paula

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browsing wikipedia content differently: tech & partnership questions
by Luigi Assom 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

Dear All, I am the CEO of a young startup who developed a method to obtain semantic relationships between arguments. We tested on multiple domains, and we are in love with the results we obtained with the wikipedia encyclopedia. I personally want to contribute in making our idea having a social impact in learning and accessing to education. Could you please suggest some NGOs / organizations who have already adopted wikipedia as source to empower youth in development countries as well as development urban districts? I'd love to get in contact with them to learn from their experience. Any project proposing knowledge maps as tools to learn and as a reference to always have despite teachers might change over time? (As the case of volunteer teachers, who stay in a place for few months and it may be difficult to follow a programme with which convey relationships between concepts). My vision is to have knowledge maps whose content have been wrote by millions of people, be accessible for everybody so that they can learn, discuss and wonder on new possibilities independently. Thank you very much! Best Regards, Luigi Assom -- Luigi Assom Skype contact: oggigigi

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"Voice Intro Project"
by Andy Mabbett 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

I'd like to ask GLAMs and GLAM-wikipedians to support the project I started: <http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/open-licensed-format-recordings-voices-wikipedi…> asking the subjects of Wikipedia articles to record a 10-second sample of their speaking voice, for use on those articles. An example script is "Hello, my name is [name]. I was born in [place] and I have been [job or position] since [year]". So far, the participants: <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Voice_intro_project> include Sue Black, Cory Doctorow, Bill Thompson and Dave Winer; and we've just had our first recording in French - but we need many more. Do any of your GLAM colleagues have articles about them? Do you exhibit living artists who do? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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