For those of us who were unable to make it: How did it go? 2011/5/24 aude <aude.wiki(a)gmail.com>om>: -- Ben F. Schumin http://www.schuminweb.com/ schuminweb(a)gmail.com

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Ben F. Schumin <schuminweb(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: We missed you! We had ~15-20 attendees from both Wikimedia and NARA. As well as Trevor Owens from the Library of Congress, who dropped by GLAMcamp NYC, joined us. Along with other LOC folks, he's interested in ways that Wikimedians can work with LOC. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2011/20110126_news_owens.html The event at NARA was excellent, with David Ferriero giving welcoming remarks and introducing Liam. There will be video posted of Liam's talk, soon as possible. Liam talked about his experience as Wikipedian in Residence at the British Museum, and gave ideas on what Dominic might do as NARA's Wikipedian in Residence this summer. (there will be opportunities for volunteers to get more involved with this) Before speaking at NARA, we visited the Center for History and New Media at George Mason, met with Dan Cohen there, and Liam spoke at lunchtime to ~30 of their staff. Ways that we can help CHNM include getting their software tools (Zotero - Firefox plugin, and Omeka - CMS for museums/cultural projects) into translatewiki to get the interfaces translated into many more languages. Another project that CHNM is doing is digitizing War Department papers ( http://wardepartmentpapers.org/) from 1784-1800. As these were handwritten with fancy handwriting they did back then, OCR won't work so they are slowly being transcribed by volunteers. We see potential for collaboration on this project with Wikisource. This morning, Liam spoke to staff at the Smithsonian, but sadly I missed that. :( Sarah Stierch is/will be Wikipedian in Residence at the Archives of American Art, and there are opportunities to help her out with projects there. Lots of exciting possibilities for collaboration and anyone who might want to help with any of these, please let me know. Cheers, Katie PS - Eli Pousson from Baltimore Heritage joined us at GLAMcamp NYC this past weekend and we're thinking about ways to work with him (e.g. Wikis Take Baltimore, maybe work with some of the institutions around there). As an initial step, we would like to organize a meetup in Baltimore sometime in July or maybe June.