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/
Hello all,
I wanted to remind everyone that the @glamwiki Twitter account is available
for dispersing any news or events or links that you have to share. The
GLAM-Wiki US facebook account also is available for US-based things (that
account came out of GLAMcamp DC back in February.)
While I maintain them pretty regularly and I strive to represent as broadly
as I can based on the news/links I find, I could use help in sharing
information (and in creating *specific* 140 character tweets). I'm happy to
post anything that you send me.
I'll be without internet for all of next week and I would like to queue up
a solid series of posts. So, in the next two days in particular it'd be
useful for you to share any links and associated tweets with me. I'll be
happy to get them ready to go for next week.
Then it'd be great for this habit to continue from here on out : ).
Thanks so much!
Lori
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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 all,
Just a reminder that the call for papers for GLAM-WIKI is closing next week:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2012/Call_for_papers
- if there's anything you'd like to present on, or a workshop you'd
like to organise, please let us know! This is a good opportunity for
people, particularly from Europe or the UK, who couldn't make it to DC
but have projects they'd like to showcase...
Looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible in September,
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
The Wikimania people were nice enough to prioritize the editing of David
Ferriero's closing plenary speech at Wikimania so that he could embed it in
his blog post which was published today. As a result, it's actually the
only official video from Wikimania available yet! See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47pEcmXjt8E (blog
post<http://blogs.archives.gov/aotus/?p=4298>
)
I thought people on this list would be interested to view it, if you didn't
get a chance to see it in person, and also to share and quote from it even
if you did. It's all about putting our GLAM work in the context of ongoing
trends in the cultural sector, and it was well-received by the live
audience (though the cheering is a bit muted in the video). The full text
will go up at archives.gov soon
(here<http://www.archives.gov/about/speeches/ferriero/index.html>
).
Dominic
Hi,
I created the timed transcripts in English, and BTW UniversalSubtitles is
quite wonderful:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Share_Your_Knowledge_1_Why_glam…http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Share_Your_Knowledge_2_How_glam…http://www.universalsubtitles.org/fr/videos/QyAwr8wXOGBG/info/http://www.universalsubtitles.org/fr/videos/bzsrJXLJUuGK/info/
And translated the first into French (if someone wants to do the second… :)
If I understand correctly the translation workflow of Commons videos (it’s
the first time I translate Commons videos), you can either copy the
Commons English page under the same title with ".lang-code.srt" at the
end, either use the translation tool on universalsubtitles.org and then
copy the SRT result on Commons.
Cheers,
Sébastien
Le 25 juin 2012 à 10:31:40 UTC, Iolanda Pensa a écrit :
> thanks for considering the idea of translating the Share Your Knowledge
> videos script. it would be great.
> you find the script in English on the videos discussion pages on
> Wikimedia Commons.
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Share_Your_Knowledge_1_Why_glam…
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Share_Your_Knowledge_2_How_glam…
> thanks! iolanda
>
>
> Il giorno 19/giu/2012, alle ore 16:50, Axel Pettersson ha scritto:
>
>> Hi,
>> Great videos. I'll translate them to swedish also. Is there info
>> somewhere about how to use the translation? Is it done
>> throughtranslatewiki.net or some other system?
>>/axel
>>====================================Axel Pettersson
>> Projektledare GLAM/Outreach
>> Wikimedia Sverige
>>mobil +46 (0)730 59 58 13haxpett at hotmail.comaxel.pettersson at
>> wikimedia.se
>> Twitter: @Haxpett
>>Wikimedia.se - Stöd fri kunskap!
>>Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:46:24 +0300
>> From: glavkos at gmail.com
>> To: glam at lists.wikimedia.org
>> Subject: Re: [glam] 2 videos about GLAMs, Creative Commons and
>> Wikipedia (English)
>>Ι could translate in Greek ...Let me know when english subtitles are
>> ready ...
>>2012/6/19 Santiago Navarro Sanz <wikimillars at hotmail.com>
>> Good idea. When you have English or French subtitles, we can translate
>> them into Spanish and Catalan, and maybe Galician.
>>Santi
>> Wikimedia Spain
>>
>>> From: bzg at altern.org
>>> To: iolanda at pensa.it
>>> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:27:05 +0200
>>> CC: glam at lists.wikimedia.org
>>> Subject: Re: [glam] 2 videos about GLAMs, Creative Commons and
>>> Wikipedia (English)
>>
>>>Iolanda Pensa <iolanda at pensa.it> writes:
>>>
>>>> we would be really pleased if the videos get translated or edited in
>>>> new ways to reach the widest possible audience.
>>>Do you have a transcript of the english text?Ideally, a .srt that is
>>> already usable on www.universalsubtitles.org.
>>>If so, I'd be happy to translate it into french!
>>>--Bastien
For those who can read Spanish or Catalan, two members of Wikimedia Spain have written an article in a Review about "Analysis of links to cultural heritage libraries and digital archives from Spanish and Catalan Wikipedia".
http://www.ub.edu/bid/28/saorin2.htm
Saorín,
Tomás; Rodríguez Posada, Emilio José (2012). «Análisis de enlaces hacia
bibliotecas y archivos digitales de patrimonio cultural desde Wikipedia
en español y catalán». BiD: textos universitaris de biblioteconomia i documentació, juny, núm. 28. <http://www.ub.edu/bid/28/saorin2.htm> [Consulta: 10-07-2012].
Regards
Santiago Navarro
User:Millars
Wikimedia España
Hello!
Today the Department of Culture of Palafrugell (Catalonia) opens an
exhibition of painter *Josep Costa
Sobrepera*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep_Costa_Sobrepera>. This
is the first time there is a code QRpedia in this town.
It would be great to have this article in many languages. Thus, tourists
from around the world can have the information in their mother tongue.
I'll send you a photo of the QR code!!
*David Parreño Mont (User:Davidpar)*
http://davidparreno.tumblr.com/
Hi Lodewijk,
I like your ideas, especially the one about Wiki Loves Food which I think could be a really good mini-contest. However, this year I hope that you will share your expertise with WLPA! :-)
You have a really good point about the exams in May and I have been thinking hard about your suggestions.
At least in Sweden June would not work very well as a lot of people take their Summer vacation already by then and all the GLAMs that we might cooperate with would most likely be running at half speed that month (at least for the second half of June). Also I believe that we should not put WLPA too close to WLM as some of the organizers might work with both.
The problem with March is that it is too early for us to be able to organize everything in time and also in the Nordic countries March is not a very suitable month for outdoor photographing because of the bad weather.
That leaves April, but when looking at how Europe's weather was this year during Spring I am hesitant to put it entirely in April as well, also we would loose an entire month of time to organize it by moving it there.
To give us a bit more time to get everything in place, avoid the worst weather and make it possible for students to participate I therefor have three suggestion:
1. We could start the contest on the 15th of April and end it on the 15th of May; or
2. Extend the contest backward and have it from the 15th of April until the end of May, i.e. having it for 1.5 months instead of 1 month; or
3. Extend the contest forward from the 1st of May to the 15th of June, i.e. having it for 1.5 months instead of 1 month.
What do you all think about these suggestions? Which one would you think makes most sense?
All the best,
John
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Wikimedia Sweden (WMSE)
Event Manager, Europeana Awareness
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Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana
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From: lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 17:25:49 +0200
To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
CC: glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org; wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Public Art (WLPA) needs your help
Hi,
interesting announcement :) I myself have been thinking of organizing a new 'Wiki Loves' in June 2013 (I don't think May is a good month due to the exams everywhere - and students will make up a significant part of the organizers), probably first in the Netherlands. I am still doubting between some 20 different ideas which were shared by several people; ranging from a relaunch of the good old 'Wiki Loves Art' (it would be preferable if WLPA could get a name that is not as easily confused with WLA) all the way to a Wiki Loves Food (photograph food items, dishes etc in your country/region) or Wiki Loves Concepts (photograph concepts like 'love', 'community', 'neighborhood', 'philosophy' etc as explanatory and useful as possible). Wiki Loves Public Art is amongst those ideas too (as are non-photo contests), although I should admit personally it is not my favorite :)
So... would it perhaps make sense to do WLPA one or even two months earlier? (March/April) That way it would leave three months per year to do a contest (but imho running two in a country is already quite a challange!
Best,Lodewijk
2012/7/2 Lori Phillips <lori.byrd.phillips(a)gmail.com>
Thanks John,
It's exciting to see this getting off the ground. I want to remind that
WikiProject Public Art was established two years ago as a model for
photographing, researching, and creating articles about Public Artworks. It
was established under the leadership of Richard McCoy, conservator of
objects at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Jennifer Mikulay, a public
arts scholar and professor, both of which are Wikipedians in their own
right. While the Wikipedia Loves Public Art project may be photo-based,
the resources developed within WikiProject Public Art could prove useful -
and I hope that the wikiproject can plan a role.
I admit that the image guide and some of the process can be US-centric, if
only to keep us sane in developing this model to start. But it can be a
good jumping off point.
With Jane's suggestion of article-creation, I wanted to specifically point
out that WikiProject:Public Art has as its core goal the creation of
articles about Public Art, rather than image gathering. So if you're
interested in that being a component of Wikipedia Loves Public Art, there
are step by step guides that could be useful resources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_art
This would also be useful to share on the public GLAM list as well! cc'ing
now : ).
Let me know if you have any questions,
Lori
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:23 AM, John Andersson
<johnandersson86(a)hotmail.com>wrote:
>
> Hi Jane,
>
> I am happy that you think that it sounds interesting!
>
> The idea is to have similar rules and structure as WLM, e.g. that the
> artworks should have a unique ID to be part of the contest. I think that we
> should not limit ourselves more right now until we know
> what type of data we can get our hands on in the different countries.
> I personally feel rather hesitant to create a specific definition for
> the contest that would differ from the official ones, that feel a lot
> like original research to me and also it could make it harder to use
> the data later on, as we then might have to sort out certain categories
> of artworks. That however mean that what exactly are considered public art
> then most likely will differ a bit between different countries, and perhaps
> between different regions. To get in contact with relevant parties that
> have the needed data is therefor a first step and if you are interested in
> contacting people/institutions in your country that would be very helpful!
>
> Also, I think that events focusing on connecting the pictures to Wikipedia
> would be fantastic and perhaps one could organize them to take place either
> at the same time or during the summer. If you have any cool ideas that you
> would like to work on please let me know!
>
> All the best,
>
> John
> - - - -
> John Andersson
> Wikimedia Sweden (WMSE)
> Event Manager, Europeana Awareness
>
> Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
>
>
>
> Email: JohnAndersson86(a)hotmail.com
>
> Skype: johnandersson86
>
> Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana
> Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/Englishfor more information about our project!
>
> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 13:01:26 +0200
> From: jane023(a)gmail.com
> To: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> CC: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Public Art (WLPA) needs
> your help
>
> JohnGreat initiative! Thanks for the tip, and good point about May vs.
> September regarding WLM, but these can easily be linked together, meaning
> Wiki(p/m)edians can take pictures of statues and other public art whilst
> working from a list of monument numbers...
>
> To be clear, are you going to keep your Public art idea like WLM's, in the
> sense that "only photos with a unique id taken during the competition month
> will be eligible for a prize"? WLM is basically just a Wikimedia Commons
> project, and the fruits of that project can be used by Wikipedia, but there
> is no Wikipedia part of the competition as it is today.
>
> Right off the top of my head I can think of lots of other ways to track
> public art, such as historical artworks commissioned by a governing body
> that once were on Square X and were replaced by artwork Y for reason Z,
> etc. This kind of tracking would require various references and would need
> to be integrated somehow with Wikipedia, I think, as pictures alone don't
> tell the whole story, the way pictures of physical monuments taken for WLM
> do.
>
> In other words, what is your precise, identifiable and verifiable
> definition of "public art", rather than "sculptures, mosaics, mural
> paintings, memorials and place specific installments in the public space"?
> Jane
>
> 2012/7/2 John Andersson <johnandersson86(a)hotmail.com>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hallo everybody,
>
>
>
> We have just started working with the Wiki Loves Public Art (WLPA)[1]
> contest that will focus on getting pictures on sculptures, mosaics,
> mural paintings, memorials and place
> specific installments in the public space. If
> you are interested in public art, enjoy organizing events, think that it
> is cool and interesting to work with projects that increase cooperation
> between the Chapters, or would like to work towards GLAM in your
> country, well then this would be something for you! We are looking for
> all kinds of volunteers and especially for national coordinators that
> can help us get things going in the countries and coordinate the
> volunteer efforts!
>
>
> As
> we don't want to intrude upon the fantastic Wiki Loves Monument contest we
> are thinking about holding WLPA during the
> month of May in 2013. However, May will hopefully give us enough time to
> work on this and provide good enough weather
> so that the pictures look nice and people think that it is fun to go out
> and find the art works.
>
>
> We are of course aware of the tricky copyright legislations in
> different countries but thanks to the fact that this is organized
> together with Europeana (www.europeana.eu) we have the
> possibility to use Europeana's team of judicial experts in finding out
> answers on some of the questions. So if you have a question that is not
> answered on Commons:Freedom of Panorama[2] please write up your
> questions on relevant judicial matters on our list and we will forward
> it to Europeana.[3]
>
>
> Both me and the project leader, Lennart Guldbrandsson, will be at
> Wikimania and we would love to met and talk to you about this in person!
>
>
> I hope to hear from you soon!
>
> All the best,
>
> John
>
> - - - -
> John Andersson
> Wikimedia Sweden (WMSE)
> Event Manager, Europeana Awareness
>
> Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
>
>
>
> Email: JohnAndersson86(a)hotmail.com
>
> Skype: johnandersson86
>
> Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana
> Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/Englishfor more information about our project!
>
>
> [1]
> http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/Wiki_Loves_Public_…
>
> [2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama
>
> [3]
> http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/Wiki_Loves_Public_…
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