Following closely on the news of our Barbara being elected to the Europeana
members council[1] and the GLAMwiki Coordinators meeting that we're hosting
at UNESCO in two weeks[2], I am pleased to also formally announce the
official launch of the Europeana 1914-1918 Wikimedia campaign. It's
something that many of you are already aware of (and have helped me to
design/prepare over the last few months!) so it's great that it's finally
"open".
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Europeana/1914-18
Until the end of July, the campaign asks Wikimedia Affiliates to produce a
"portfolio" of actions they've organised - both current and past - around
the theme of 1914-18. If your affiliate would like to participate, please
link it + contact name alongside the others already participating, on the
project page linked above!
This is not only about military history. Some affiliates are already
planning activities to do with: The centenary of women's suffrage in their
country; the October revolution; migration & refugees... Also, the range of
valid activities is not only Editathons. Anything that relates to the theme
is allowed (e.g. photo expeditions, mapping parties, transcribathons,
content donations) so long as at least one activity is with a Europeana
partner-GLAM or uses a Europeana service (such as the API, or the
crowdsourced personal items digitised at "collection days" across the
continent for Europeana 1914-1918[3] - some of which is already on
Commons). Projects collaborating between multiple affiliates would be
particularly cool, and activities already planned/underway/passed which
have relevance to the theme can be counted too - doesn't have to be 'new'
things!
Europe is obviously the target of this campaign, but non-European
affiliates are certainly also welcome to contribute their own portfolio and
participate (Europeana's sister organisation in America - the DPLA - is
preparing a resources page to help).
At the end, Europeana will showcase the collection of portfolios to
demonstrate the *diverse*, *innovative*, and *high-quality* ways that this
important period of Europe's history can be understood through open-access
heritage. And yes, there ARE prizes, including a scholarship to present at
the 2017 Europeana conference in Amsterdam.[5]
Any questions? Thoughts? There is an FAQ on the project page[4] and lots of
'ready to go' activity-ideas, but feel free to reply here too. My colleague
Ad Pollé and I can also help with introducing communities to local partner
GLAMs if that would be helpful.
Sincerely,
-Liam / Wittylama
Europeana GLAMwiki coordinator
[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/glam/2017-January/001144.html
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_European_GLAMwiki_Coordinators_meeting
[3] http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en/explore
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Europeana/1914-18
[5] Note, this major prize includes travel costs from within Europe only
wittylama.com
Peace, love & metadata
Greetings GLAM wiki community,
I am honored be attending an upcoming UNESCO/GLAMwiki<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_European_GLAMwiki_Coordinators_meeting> coordinators meeting on February 16 & 17. I will be representing the U.S. GLAM Wiki Consortium, looking at ways to contribute to Wikidata from my organization, as well as talking about my research on the impact of open GLAM<https://siarchives.si.edu/sites/default/files/pdfs/2016_03_10_OpenCollectio…>.
If you work at a U.S. GLAM organization that works with Wikipedia/Wikimedia, I ask that you kindly respond to a 7 question survey<https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Y5NJRB7> to help me understand the challenges and benefits that U.S. organizations face in collaborating with Wikipedia/Wikimedia. Please submit your answers by Friday, February 10th as my presentation is February 16th. And please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Best wishes,
Effie Kapsalis, Chief of Content & Communications
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Dear #1Lib1Ref Heroes,
One last request for this year's campaign!
We want to make sure that in the face of "alternative facts" the world
knows that Wikipedia and Libraries are working side-by-side to bring
reliable information to the world. We stand together, because #factsmatter.
Please retweet a post sent out today from our main @Wikipedia account while
adding your own tagline to it like this:
#1Lib1Ref Happens Here. Because #FactsMatter.
https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/826792224084021250
That's all we need to maximize the momentum from an already record-breaking
global campaign (3 times bigger than last year!). We really appreciate your
help.
It matters now more than ever.
The Wikipedia Library Team
--
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:
http://glamwiki.org