Sorry for cross-posting.
Dear everybody,
My name is John Andersson and I have recently been hired by Wikimedia Sweden (WMSE) as the Event manager for the project Europeana Awareness[1], a project that amongst other things has the goal of creating a closer cooperation between the Europeana Foundation (and its vast network of GLAM institutions) and the Wikimedia community and by doing so increase awareness of the work done by Europeana (hence the project name). The project leader for WMSE's part of the Europeana Awareness is Lennart Guldbrandsson, a.k.a. User:Hannibal, who many of you already know. I will however be responsible for the day-to-day operations.
First of all I would like to give you a short presentation about myself so that you know who I am (if this understandably bores you, you can skip the following paragraph) and secondly I will present the projects that I will work with during the coming 18 months.
I will start working full time on the 11th of June but until then I am working merely 35 percent as I am currently at the very end of my university studies at the Master programme in European Studies at Gothenburg University, finishing up my Master's thesis that focuses on decision-making in the Arctic Council's working groups. This time last year I worked as a trainee at the European Parliament's Secretariat in Brussels for 5.5 months and from before that I have a Bachelor of Science from Umeå University. During my Bachelor I spent one semester in the U.S. as an exchange student. I have been an administrator on the Swedish language version for 6 years now and have contributed with hundreds of articles and photos. On a more personal note I enjoy learning new things, experiencing new cultures, traveling, meeting friends and reading a good book.
Two major tasks that I will work with are firstly the co-organization of a number of GLAM conferences in some of the European countries that have active Wikimedia Chapters that are working with GLAM issues, as well as to organize a European wide competition called Wiki Loves Public Art (WLPA), obviously inspired by the super successful Wiki Loves Monument competition.
I am hoping to help in organizing events in Sweden, Poland, UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. Currently I am working on organizing the first event, an Edit-a-thon in Leuven, Belgium.[2] If you are planning to organize a GLAM event in any of these countries I hope that you will take the opportunity to contact me and discuss how I could help! For example, adding Europeana as a partner for the event that you are organizing is likely to open new doors and attract more institutions and I am the one to contact about that, I could also help out with man-hours, perhaps supply you with information, contacts and digitized media that Europeana already has (which could be hard and time consuming to collect) or suggest and contact international guests that could participate in your event.
The organization of Wiki Loves Public Art will mainly take place later this year. But even though this event is far in the future I hope that you write me an email if you think that this sounds interesting and would like to get involved in this work. I am well aware that this will take a lot of time and effort to organize so we might as well start with some initial planning as soon as possible!
I am super excited about working with this full time and I really look forward meeting and talking with all of you!
Sincerely,
John Andersson Wikimedia Sweden Event manager, Europeana Awareness
User names: User:John Andersson (WMSE) (work) and User:Jopparn (private)
Email: JohnAndersson86@hotmail.com Skype: johnandersson86
[1] See http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness for more information. Currently only available in Swedish. [2] See http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/Europeana_meets_Wor...
2012/5/23 John Andersson johnandersson86@hotmail.com:
Sorry for cross-posting.
Dear everybody,
My name is John Andersson and I have recently been hired by Wikimedia Sweden (WMSE) as the Event manager for the project Europeana Awareness[1], a project that amongst other things has the goal of creating a closer cooperation between the Europeana Foundation (and its vast network of GLAM institutions) and the Wikimedia community and by doing so increase awareness of the work done by Europeana (hence the project name). The project leader for WMSE's part of the Europeana Awareness is Lennart Guldbrandsson, a.k.a. User:Hannibal, who many of you already know. I will however be responsible for the day-to-day operations.
First of all I would like to give you a short presentation about myself so that you know who I am (if this understandably bores you, you can skip the following paragraph) and secondly I will present the projects that I will work with during the coming 18 months.
I will start working full time on the 11th of June but until then I am working merely 35 percent as I am currently at the very end of my university studies at the Master programme in European Studies at Gothenburg University, finishing up my Master's thesis that focuses on decision-making in the Arctic Council's working groups. This time last year I worked as a trainee at the European Parliament's Secretariat in Brussels for 5.5 months and from before that I have a Bachelor of Science from Umeå University. During my Bachelor I spent one semester in the U.S. as an exchange student. I have been an administrator on the Swedish language version for 6 years now and have contributed with hundreds of articles and photos. On a more personal note I enjoy learning new things, experiencing new cultures, traveling, meeting friends and reading a good book.
Two major tasks that I will work with are firstly the co-organization of a number of GLAM conferences in some of the European countries that have active Wikimedia Chapters that are working with GLAM issues, as well as to organize a European wide competition called Wiki Loves Public Art (WLPA), obviously inspired by the super successful Wiki Loves Monument competition.
I am hoping to help in organizing events in Sweden, Poland, UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. Currently I am working on organizing the first event, an Edit-a-thon in Leuven, Belgium.[2] If you are planning to organize a GLAM event in any of these countries I hope that you will take the opportunity to contact me and discuss how I could help! For example, adding Europeana as a partner for the event that you are organizing is likely to open new doors and attract more institutions and I am the one to contact about that, I could also help out with man-hours, perhaps supply you with information, contacts and digitized media that Europeana already has (which could be hard and time consuming to collect) or suggest and contact international guests that could participate in your event.
The organization of Wiki Loves Public Art will mainly take place later this year. But even though this event is far in the future I hope that you write me an email if you think that this sounds interesting and would like to get involved in this work. I am well aware that this will take a lot of time and effort to organize so we might as well start with some initial planning as soon as possible!
I am super excited about working with this full time and I really look forward meeting and talking with all of you!
Sincerely,
John Andersson
Wikimedia Sweden
Event manager, Europeana Awareness
User names: User:John Andersson (WMSE) (work) and User:Jopparn (private)
Email: JohnAndersson86@hotmail.com
Skype: johnandersson86
[1] See http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness for more information. Currently only available in Swedish. [2] See http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/Europeana_meets_Wor...
Hi John [and hello again to everybody from the WLM list],
It is nice to hear about new initiatives born from WLM. What exactly do you understand by public art? Are we talking about art forms which sit in the public space, like statues in a square, or about something else?
Is your job description limited to GLAM events and countries with chapters? We in Romania have neither, and the flow of information has so far been mostly reversed (e.g. the WLM photos from Romania are going to be uploaded to Europeana), but I would personally appreciate suggestions about how to use more effectively the material that Europeana already has (especially the meta-data, which IMO is a heavily underused CC-0 database).
Thanks, Strainu
Hallo Strainu,
With public art I mean sculptures, monuments mosaics, mural paintings, memorials and place specific installments in the public space, but not graffiti for example. According to the project description I should mainly focus on coordinating the WLPA with the Wikimedia Chapters in i France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, UK and Sweden, but the goal is to also get other Chapters and countries to participate and I would be very happy if Romania would participate in this as well and I will try to support you as well, if I have any possibility! Most of the work will however have to be organized on the ground by volunteers. But if you are interested in working with this I would be happy to keep you informed and we should continue discussing what can be done.
How to use the meta data from Europeana is not within the scope of my work (and personally I know very little about it), but I would not be surprised if other groups in the Europeana Awareness project are working with something that you would find useful. The goal with Europeana Awareness is after all to get more people to use their data and material. In this document, http://pro.europeana.eu/documents/904448/982553/Description+of+Work+European..., all of the participating partners and their tasks are outlined (in the text they spell it "metadata" if you wanna do a search). I hope that it helped you a little bit on the way.
Cheers,
John
From: strainu10@gmail.com Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 22:29:44 +0300 To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org CC: wikisv-l@lists.wikimedia.org; glam@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Europeana Awareness project and Wikimedia Sweden
2012/5/23 John Andersson johnandersson86@hotmail.com:
Sorry for cross-posting.
Dear everybody,
My name is John Andersson and I have recently been hired by Wikimedia Sweden (WMSE) as the Event manager for the project Europeana Awareness[1], a project that amongst other things has the goal of creating a closer cooperation between the Europeana Foundation (and its vast network of GLAM institutions) and the Wikimedia community and by doing so increase awareness of the work done by Europeana (hence the project name). The project leader for WMSE's part of the Europeana Awareness is Lennart Guldbrandsson, a.k.a. User:Hannibal, who many of you already know. I will however be responsible for the day-to-day operations.
First of all I would like to give you a short presentation about myself so that you know who I am (if this understandably bores you, you can skip the following paragraph) and secondly I will present the projects that I will work with during the coming 18 months.
I will start working full time on the 11th of June but until then I am working merely 35 percent as I am currently at the very end of my university studies at the Master programme in European Studies at Gothenburg University, finishing up my Master's thesis that focuses on decision-making in the Arctic Council's working groups. This time last year I worked as a trainee at the European Parliament's Secretariat in Brussels for 5.5 months and from before that I have a Bachelor of Science from Umeå University. During my Bachelor I spent one semester in the U.S. as an exchange student. I have been an administrator on the Swedish language version for 6 years now and have contributed with hundreds of articles and photos. On a more personal note I enjoy learning new things, experiencing new cultures, traveling, meeting friends and reading a good book.
Two major tasks that I will work with are firstly the co-organization of a number of GLAM conferences in some of the European countries that have active Wikimedia Chapters that are working with GLAM issues, as well as to organize a European wide competition called Wiki Loves Public Art (WLPA), obviously inspired by the super successful Wiki Loves Monument competition.
I am hoping to help in organizing events in Sweden, Poland, UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. Currently I am working on organizing the first event, an Edit-a-thon in Leuven, Belgium.[2] If you are planning to organize a GLAM event in any of these countries I hope that you will take the opportunity to contact me and discuss how I could help! For example, adding Europeana as a partner for the event that you are organizing is likely to open new doors and attract more institutions and I am the one to contact about that, I could also help out with man-hours, perhaps supply you with information, contacts and digitized media that Europeana already has (which could be hard and time consuming to collect) or suggest and contact international guests that could participate in your event.
The organization of Wiki Loves Public Art will mainly take place later this year. But even though this event is far in the future I hope that you write me an email if you think that this sounds interesting and would like to get involved in this work. I am well aware that this will take a lot of time and effort to organize so we might as well start with some initial planning as soon as possible!
I am super excited about working with this full time and I really look forward meeting and talking with all of you!
Sincerely,
John Andersson
Wikimedia Sweden
Event manager, Europeana Awareness
User names: User:John Andersson (WMSE) (work) and User:Jopparn (private)
Email: JohnAndersson86@hotmail.com
Skype: johnandersson86
[1] See http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness for more information. Currently only available in Swedish. [2] See http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/Europeana_meets_Wor...
Hi John [and hello again to everybody from the WLM list],
It is nice to hear about new initiatives born from WLM. What exactly do you understand by public art? Are we talking about art forms which sit in the public space, like statues in a square, or about something else?
Is your job description limited to GLAM events and countries with chapters? We in Romania have neither, and the flow of information has so far been mostly reversed (e.g. the WLM photos from Romania are going to be uploaded to Europeana), but I would personally appreciate suggestions about how to use more effectively the material that Europeana already has (especially the meta-data, which IMO is a heavily underused CC-0 database).
Thanks, Strainu
Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:33 AM, John Andersson wrote:
With public art I mean sculptures, monuments mosaics, mural paintings, memorials and place specific installments in the public space, but not graffiti for example.
I don't want to hijack the conversation, but aren't those sculptures, monuments mosaics, mural paintings, memorials and so on land mines from a copyright point of view? I mean, even for monuments there are a lot of copyright restrictions, but those pieces of art you listed are usually newer so most likely still protected.
Hi Nicu,
First of all I have to point out that I am no copyright expert and I hope that I haven't misunderstood anything, but these are my initial thoughts about the issue that you bring up.
As I have understood it when reading Commons:Freedom of panorama, most (if not all?) European states have the rule that public art that was created by an artist that died 70 years ago can be uploaded under a license suitable for Wikimedia Commons (in the list on Commons countries such as Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Lithuania and Luxembourg does not specify this with the note, so I am not sure about them. Are they different in this aspect?). As I see it, even with newer pieces of art removed, the older art pieces still opens up for a vast amount of objects to take photos of! Also, some countries, such as Sweden, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands (to mention a few), have very generous copyright legislation and that opens up for even more art photos from those countries!
The official lists with public artwork that we can get our hands on should of course ideally be modified to remove the objects that are not within Freedom of panorama so that people does not spend time taking pictures of them just to have them deleted later. Hopefully the lists provided will contain enough data for us to do so easily. Hopefully we will have the possibility to use the judicial experts that are associated with the Europeana Awareness project to help us out when preparing for this and help us make rational decisions. Frankly, I would think that our problem will be that the lists with objects that people can take photos of will be to big to get an overview over, and not the opposite... All of this is however something that we obviously will have to discuss further. Finally, if some countries' copyright legislation just makes Wiki Loves Public Art impossible we will just have to leave those countries out for now and hope that they will change their legislation in the future!
All the best,
John
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 08:22:59 +0300 From: nicubunu@gmail.com To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Europeana Awareness project and Wikimedia Sweden
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:33 AM, John Andersson wrote:
With public art I mean sculptures, monuments mosaics, mural paintings, memorials and place specific installments in the public space, but not graffiti for example.
I don't want to hijack the conversation, but aren't those sculptures, monuments mosaics, mural paintings, memorials and so on land mines from a copyright point of view? I mean, even for monuments there are a lot of copyright restrictions, but those pieces of art you listed are usually newer so most likely still protected.
-- nicu :: http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/
Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu
John Andersson, 24/05/2012 10:10:
All of this is however something that we obviously will have to discuss further. Finally, if some countries' copyright legislation just makes Wiki Loves Public Art impossible we will just have to leave those countries out for now and hope that they will change their legislation in the future!
Now that your work period has started (good luck!), can you already give us some info/finding from the legislation analysis? (That is, what countries are problematic or how laws can be worked around.)
Nemo
Hi Nemo and thank you for your good wishes!
I have just started looking into WLPA and the first step is to identify what we lack knowledge about and need to get a deeper understanding of. To do so I have just created a list on WMSE's wiki where you can write up any legal questions that you think is relevant when organizing the competition. You can find the list here. I will then bring your questions to Europeana and see if they can help us out answering them. They have something like an judicial help desk for their partner organizations (of which WMSE is one) where we can send questions.
Also, I have a few good news! I talked about the idea of organizing this competition with a number of people at the Europeana Plenary in Leuven (which I and two other people from WMSE attended last week) and I received very positive responses. Amongst other a representative from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Greece showed great interest in cooperating with us on this. To cultivate this we would of course need someone from Greece to carry the torch and get in contact with them. Is there anyone from Greece on this list that would be interested in helping out with this? Do you know anyone that might?
Finally, if you are interested in helping out with organizing this competition in your home country, please write me an email about it! It would be great if we could start working with this a little bit as soon as possible to make the most out of the event and not miss any opportunities!
All the best,
John Andersson Wikimedia Sweden Event Manager, Europeana Awareness Email: john.andersson@wikimedia.se
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:03:44 +0200 From: nemowiki@gmail.com To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Europeana Awareness project and Wikimedia Sweden
John Andersson, 24/05/2012 10:10:
All of this is however something that we obviously will have to discuss further. Finally, if some countries' copyright legislation just makes Wiki Loves Public Art impossible we will just have to leave those countries out for now and hope that they will change their legislation in the future!
Now that your work period has started (good luck!), can you already give us some info/finding from the legislation analysis? (That is, what countries are problematic or how laws can be worked around.)
Nemo
Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu
Hi everybody,
Thank you Nemo for your good wishes! I am really looking forward doing this full time and working with all of you!
I have just started looking into WLPA and the legal aspects but for me the first logical step seem to be to identify what we lack knowledge about and need to get a deeper understanding of. To do so I created a list on WMSE's wiki where you can write up any legal questions that you think is relevant when organizing the competition. Should the list include any more fields or something, please help out and change it. When we have a few though questions I will bring them to Europeana and see if they can help us out answering them (they have something like an judicial help desk for their partner organizations (of which WMSE is one) where we can send questions). I think that this is a really good opportunity to get some straight answers to what we can and cannot instead of endless discussions and guesses on what is and isn't allowed.
Also, I have a few good news! I talked about the idea of organizing this competition with a number of people at the Europeana Plenary in Leuven (which I attended last week together with two other people from WMSE ) and I received very positive responses. Amongst other a representative from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Greece showed great interest in cooperating with us on this. To cultivate this we would of course need someone from Greece to carry the torch and get in contact with them. Is there anyone from Greece on this list that would be interested in helping out with this? Do you know anyone that might?
Finally, if you are at all interested in helping out with organizing this competition in your home country, please write me an email about it! It would be great if we could start working with this a little bit as soon as possible to make the most out of the event and not miss any opportunities!
Thank you for your help,
John Andersson Wikimedia Sweden Event Manager, Europeana Awareness Email: john.andersson@wikimedia.se
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:03:44 +0200 From: nemowiki@gmail.com To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Europeana Awareness project and Wikimedia Sweden
John Andersson, 24/05/2012 10:10:
All of this is however something that we obviously will have to discuss further. Finally, if some countries' copyright legislation just makes Wiki Loves Public Art impossible we will just have to leave those countries out for now and hope that they will change their legislation in the future!
Now that your work period has started (good luck!), can you already give us some info/finding from the legislation analysis? (That is, what countries are problematic or how laws can be worked around.)
Nemo
Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu
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