Hello. I can announce you that next September 27th, Biblioteca Nacional (National Library), Instituto Cervantes and Real Academia Española (three of the most important institutions in the world for Spanish language) will run an editathon with collaboration of Wikimedia Spain at the National Library Builnding.
This editathon is the first in Madrid, and at this moment we have more than 60 people confirmed. The thematic is about Spanish language and Spanish literature. To participate you must fill in a register following the instructions of this website (http://wikieditatonmadrid.org/) The entrance is free. People have to bring their own laptop.
You can also edit at home, and we encourage you to do it. We created a page on Spanish Wikipedia for coordination.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editat%C3%B3n_BNE_Madrid…
Thank you.
Santiago Navarro
Please excuse any cross postings.
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Today's Topics:
1. Event Invitation: Shared Images of Global Cultural Heritage
(London, October 20, 2014) (Stuart Snydman)
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Subject: [MCN-L] Event Invitation: Shared Images of Global Cultural
Heritage (London, October 20, 2014)
You are cordially invited to a unique one day event in London, hosted by
the International Image Interoperability Framework community (
http://iiif.io/), about the use of images in and across Cultural Heritage
institutions.
The day will focus on how museums, galleries, libraries and archives, or
any online image service, can take advantage of a powerful technical
framework for interoperability between image repositories. This event will
be valuable for senior leaders, organizational decision makers, repository
and collection managers, software engineers, and anyone interested in
exploring the wide range of use cases that are seamlessly enabled by the
framework. This is the only such event planned, so don't miss it!
The event will be held at the British Library Conference Centre on Monday
October 20, 2014.
REGISTER NOW ON EVENTBRITE! (http://bit.ly/iiiflondon2014)
Attendance is free, and widespread dissemination of the event is encouraged.
A detailed program is available at http://iiif.io/event/2014/london.html.
There will be many opportunities for discussion, questions and networking
throughout the day with new and existing partners including multiple
national libraries, top tier research institutions, commercial providers
and major aggregators.
Please register now on EventBrite (http://bit.ly/iiiflondon2014), and join
iiif-discuss(a)googlegroups.com for announcements and discussion regarding
the event.
Hope to see you in London!
Stu Snydman
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Stanford University Libraries
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Hi all - apologies for cross posting.
I was wondering if I could ask any GLAMs who have uploaded content to Commons, or Wikimedians who have worked with GLAMs to upload content to Commons, if they had any details they could share regarding the forms of use that different types of content receive?
For context: at the National Library of Scotland, questions have been raised about the resolution of the images we've released thus far, and whether such a 'large' size is necessary (currently 2500px images). We hope to prove that this resolution (and perhaps higher) is not only justified but required for the types of usage that the content is likely to meet with on Commons - research, online dissemination, etc - and would like to have some use studies that we can provide to support this. Different examples for different types of content (i.e. maps vs images vs texts) would also be useful.
Side note: this is information that I think might prove of interest to other GLAM organisations debating the possibility of releasing content to Commons or other Wikimedia projects. It might be worthwhile to generate some sort of infosheet or booklet etc. based off of any information that could be gathered, which could then be distributed to GLAMs working with Wikimedia or considering a collaboration. If you could include any details that would therefore be appreciated. If you'd prefer not to swamp the lists, you could leave a note on my talk page -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:ACrockford
Thanks!
Ally
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Dear All,
*After a brief hiatus, monthly GLAMouts will resume just after Labor Day
this September, on Thursday September 4th at 3pm EST.*
As you may know, GLAMouts are an opportunity for U.S.-based and other
Wikipedians working in GLAM institutions or affiliated projects to share
project updates, discuss recent initiatives, and ask each other questions.
It is also an opportunity for those interested in GLAM-Wiki U.S. to
introduce themselves and learn from other community members.
I encourage you to RSVP and sign up now on our event page
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout/2014/September#Attende…>
if you are interested in presenting so we can all get a better idea of the
agenda. So far I’ve added a few suggested topics to the list and you are
welcome to claim one of those if you like as well.
Per usual, we will be using a Google hangout which will be emailed to
confirmed participants beforehand, added to the Wikipedia event page just
before the hangout, and Tweeted out via @glamwiki, my own account
@DorothyR_Howard, and the accounts of other regular GLAMout participants.
The video will also be streamed on Youtube for those who just want to watch
and the link will be made available on the event page on Wikipedia.
Please forward this message widely to those you think may be interested.
Best wishes,
Dorothy Howard
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Dorothy Howard, Wikipedian-in-Residence and Open Data Fellow
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
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[X-posted announcement]
Hello,
The Language Engineering team of the Wikimedia Foundation has been working
on a tool for easy translation of Wikipedia articles from one language to
another. The Content Translation tool has been in development since early
2014 and in July it was deployed and opened for testing on beta labs. The
tool currently provides an editing interface, limited machine translation
capability, link and reference adaptation and dictionary support. The first
rollout included machine translation support from Spanish to Catalan. Since
then, the tool has been used to create more than 100 new articles for the
Catalan Wikipedia.
On 5 September 2014, the team will be hosting a round-table conversation
with some of the editors from the Catalan Wikipedia who have been using
Content Translation. The online event is scheduled from 1600 UTC to 1700
UTC. We would like to invite everyone to join us (please use the event url
below) and add your questions to know more about this project. The same url
can be used later to view an archived version of the event.
Thank you.
Event Details:
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# Event url - https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/ckphmp2shtnc6hadsca95thshp4
# Date: September 5, 2014 (Friday)
# Time: 1600 UTC (check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140905T1600)
Project Details:
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# Project Home: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation
# Announcements:
##
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/16/first-look-at-the-content-translation-…
and
##
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/26/content-translation-100-published-arti…
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regards,
Runa
Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation