Dear list,
Here is an interesting example. Alex is a fine person to reach out to
if you want to brainstorm ways to do something similar with local
archives.
SJ
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From: Alex Stinson <stinsoad(a)k-state.edu>
Date: Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 12:32 PM
Subject: [cultural-partners] William Blake Artchive and Blake
Editathon on Oct 11
To: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination
<cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch>
Hey All,
If you were not aware, I am currently working an Wikipedia internship
with the William Blake Archive (
http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/),
one of the oldest Digital Humanities projects in the United States. As
part of the internship, I am working to improve the content related to
William Blake facilitated through a working group as part of English
Wikipedia's WikiProject Poetry
(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blake). We have already had a
great amount of success creating content. I have been trying to
document as many of my experiences at my blog
(
http://alexstinson.wordpress.com/), though that has lapsed because of
grad school activities. Additionally, I have been updating Commons
data of content that has been uploaded from the Blake Archive,
uploading higher res versions of already uploaded information and
populating a category to help keep track of it for future reporting
opportunities
(
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_from_the_William_Blake_Ar…
). In several weeks, I plan to initiate a content drive for improving
Blake content across languages.
On Friday Oct 11 from 1-5 Central (UTC -5), I am running a Wikipedia
editing event related to William Blake at the Kansas State's Beach
Museum of Art making this even more of a cross-institutional
collaboration. Currently, it looks like most of the attendees will be
students and faculty from the English Department in which I am lodged
and I would like to invite members of the GLAM-Wiki community to join
us digitally to support the project. During the event, I will be
coordinating activity on freenode at #wikimedia-glam. For more
information, check out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Poetry/William_Blake/KS…
.
Also, I wanted to point out that my collaboration with the Blake
Archive would be a perfect opportunity to probe institutions we have
contact with for offering editathons. The Archive has contributions of
scans from a variety of institutions world-wide
(
http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/public/institutions.html) and
international editathons or events in the coming months would provide
an excellent model for future cross-institutional events.
Thanks for all the great support I have already gotten so far!
Alex Stinson
User:Sadads
MA Student in English Literature Kansas State University
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