This is a great story, Thomas, thank you for sharing. I've been following up with the DC public library by email, and am talking to them later today (hopefully with Katie, if we can conference her in). It seems likely that we will have a space that can be used for this. Now the question is: what projects can we run over the coming months? 1. A typical fablab has someone who basically works in the lab and walks anyone interested in using it through the basic routine of how to get started. I wonder if we could do something like that... (anyone interested in having a summer office in the DCPL to work in while doing your own work / keeping an eye on the growing lab?) 2. Possible ideas and tools to introduce: * using a high-speed scanner; uploading the results to wikisource[1] via bot. available to use on site. * using a gps and camera / videocamera. mapping, taking geotagged photos; updating OSM and Commons. available to borrow. * using wikipedia, creating you own "books" via the books extension, and printing them out. printer and binding material available on site. * checking for PD texts on OpenLibrary (and printing them out). placing a request for new scans. I'll send an update to this list after our call today. SJ [1] hopefully we can borrow one of the Internet Archive scanners for this, while getting another sent in as a replacement 2011/6/23 thomas stewart von drashek <vondrashek(a)gmail.com>om>: > While Living in San Rafael, California. Public Library had California > History Room, With old documents, Books & Articles. With Emphasis on Local > Color & Families. There where Two Volunteers, Man & Wife, Opened door when > where on duty, guarding pecious small room, with maps & artifacts. When > Volunteer died, Public laibrary downtown could Not find next Volunteer & > simply threw collection out, as reported in marin Independent Journal. > > My Point: by digitalizing important stored works, for almost No cost, works > become available 24/7, & 100% secured as digital image. making effort > worthwhile. maybe even make high density disc of stored material. vastly > better than making volunteer sit for thouisands of hours, with few viewers. > next result, contents nearly captured fopr history, yet just too much time & > narrowness of useage, while digitalized history could be much more > accessible & useful to pub;lic. > > Signed:PHYSICIAN THOMAS STEWART von DRASHEK M.D. > > > http://vondrashek.spaces.live.com/ > > http://vondrashek.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:41 PM, <wikimedia-dc-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > wrote: >> >> Send Wikimedia-DC mailing list submissions to >>        wikimedia-dc(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >>        https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >>        wikimedia-dc-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >>        wikimedia-dc-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of Wikimedia-DC digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >>   1. Re: DPLA statement of intent (Nate Hill) >>   2. Re: DPLA statement of intent (Samuel Klein) >>   3. Re: DPLA statement of intent (Nate Hill) >>   4. What are you bringing to the D.C. Wikinic? (James Hare) >>   5. Re: What are you bringing to the D.C. Wikinic? (N Michael Bashour) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:11:21 -0700 >> From: Nate Hill <nathanielhill(a)gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-DC] DPLA statement of intent >> To: wikimedia-dc(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> Message-ID: <BANLkTi=5xc4ZqAS63de0+v9ytTmgoTsKPg(a)mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> Hello again all... for what it's worth, I do know Ginnie Cooper, the D.C. >> Public Library Director. >> I saw past threads about looking for folks to collaborate with in D.C. - >> I'd >> be happy to introduce anyone to her if that is helpful. >> -Nate >> >> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > So: some great ideas suggested so far >> > - work with George Mason's History and New Media project (awesome for >> > historical reasons - they funded the first Wikimedia-related grant I >> > ever applied for, in early 2005). >> > Q: do they have space for a lab? >> > >> > - the top idea on http://www.allourideas.org/dpla/results : "work with >> > GPO, DTIC, NARA etc to provide access to fed docs, perhaps offering >> > assistance for digitization" >> > Q: A liblab could definitely do this.  What do those orgs currently >> > need in the way of help? >> > Related: how can we define a plan with the Internet Archive or other >> > scanner-providers to get equipment soon? >> > >> > Finally, I invited Nate Hill, a local librarian and eloquent writer >> > from my public library (SJPL) who was at last week's meeting, to join >> > this list.  He has been thinking about how to set up library outposts, >> > and can help advise on what might make a good first demonstration. >> > >> > SJ >> > >> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:35 PM, K Anderson <andersonster(a)gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > > Yes, I've been looking for something like this too! >> > > Kristin >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Wikimedia-DC mailing list >> > > Wikimedia-DC(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj           w:user:sj          +1 617 >> > 529 >> > 4266 >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimedia-DC mailing list >> > Wikimedia-DC(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Nate Hill >> nathanielhill(a)gmail.com >> http://www.natehill.net >>