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

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alex Stinson stinsoad@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@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_Arc... ). 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/KSU... .

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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