Dear wikimedians in Mumbai,
It's a pleasure to informally announce that Liam Wyatt (user wittylama) will be in Mumbai 12-14 February as part of a longer visit to India to do some GLAM work.
Liam recently became a Wikimedia Fellow - http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/19/announcing-our-glam-fellow-liam-wy...
As part of this, his visit to India is intended to support wikimedia communities to explore the possibilities of collaborating with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) in strengthening articles on wikipedia of mutual interest.
Liam was the wikipedian in residencehttp://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/07/10/the-royal-cup-bridges-wikipedia-and-the-british-museum/at the British Museum last year - I attended his presentation on this at Wikimania in July 2010 and was struck by the possibilities it threw up of working with GLAM institutions.
We're extremely lucky to have Liam with us; how can we make his visit productive for all?
I propose a meetup/workshop for sure; somewhere central so that more wikipedians can attend - and so that representatives of GLAM institutions, many of which are based in south Mumbai can also participate. (Maybe something longer - so we can really learn from the experience...)
Cheers - and let's welcome Liam to Mumbai,
Bishakha
PS- The Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2011 is also on in Mumbai when you are here, Liam.
hi,
If there are any people in the group who edit this category of articles and are from Mumbai, we'd love to meetup once before Liam comes to Mumbai.
I had suggested to Bishaka and Liam that doing something in the J J School of Art made sense to get students interested. They know something about art and can help with contributions. If you guys disagree or have a better place for such a meetup do feel free to suggest it on the list.
warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas
On 25 January 2011 12:24, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.com wrote:
Dear wikimedians in Mumbai,
It's a pleasure to informally announce that Liam Wyatt (user wittylama) will be in Mumbai 12-14 February as part of a longer visit to India to do some GLAM work.
Liam recently became a Wikimedia Fellow - http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/19/announcing-our-glam-fellow-liam-wy...
As part of this, his visit to India is intended to support wikimedia communities to explore the possibilities of collaborating with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) in strengthening articles on wikipedia of mutual interest.
Liam was the wikipedian in residencehttp://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/07/10/the-royal-cup-bridges-wikipedia-and-the-british-museum/at the British Museum last year - I attended his presentation on this at Wikimania in July 2010 and was struck by the possibilities it threw up of working with GLAM institutions.
We're extremely lucky to have Liam with us; how can we make his visit productive for all?
I propose a meetup/workshop for sure; somewhere central so that more wikipedians can attend - and so that representatives of GLAM institutions, many of which are based in south Mumbai can also participate. (Maybe something longer - so we can really learn from the experience...)
Cheers - and let's welcome Liam to Mumbai,
Bishakha
PS- The Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2011 is also on in Mumbai when you are here, Liam.
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Hello everyone, It is a pleasure to be introduced to you and I'm very much looking forward to visiting next month. I came to Mumbai last in 2005 so I am interested to see what has changed!
Might I expand on what Pradeep has mentioned and say that working with cultural organisations (GLAMs) doesn't need to be only focused on editing the article *about* the organisation but can be much broader than that. This can be everything from bringing historical documents to the web for the first time (via wikisource/Commons), using primary source documents to give better footnotes to articles (from libraries/archives especially), taking photographs of objects in musems etc. etc.
Think big, but also think about what advantage there is for the cultural institution. Of course we can see the advantage of having the cultural institution's expertise more freely available to the world, but they are not necessarily so aware of what we can bring to them. It is important in every GLAM partnership that the cultural organisation is aware of what they want to receive (e.g. better awareness of their subject, more kudos from international organisations, more visitors to their website, translations/digitisation of their content...) and to make sure that they can measure this benefit at the end. Otherwise, there will be no way the person you are working with can report to their boss and say "this is what we did with Wikipedia, this is why it works well, and this is what we should do next year!"
I look forwards to meeting everyone soon, Sincerely, -Liam Wyatt / user:witty lama
wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata
On 25 January 2011 07:14, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohandas@gmail.comwrote:
hi,
If there are any people in the group who edit this category of articles and are from Mumbai, we'd love to meetup once before Liam comes to Mumbai.
I had suggested to Bishaka and Liam that doing something in the J J School of Art made sense to get students interested. They know something about art and can help with contributions. If you guys disagree or have a better place for such a meetup do feel free to suggest it on the list.
warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas
On 25 January 2011 12:24, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.com wrote:
Dear wikimedians in Mumbai,
It's a pleasure to informally announce that Liam Wyatt (user wittylama) will be in Mumbai 12-14 February as part of a longer visit to India to do some GLAM work.
Liam recently became a Wikimedia Fellow - http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/19/announcing-our-glam-fellow-liam-wy...
As part of this, his visit to India is intended to support wikimedia communities to explore the possibilities of collaborating with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) in strengthening articles on wikipedia of mutual interest.
Liam was the wikipedian in residencehttp://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/07/10/the-royal-cup-bridges-wikipedia-and-the-british-museum/at the British Museum last year - I attended his presentation on this at Wikimania in July 2010 and was struck by the possibilities it threw up of working with GLAM institutions.
We're extremely lucky to have Liam with us; how can we make his visit productive for all?
I propose a meetup/workshop for sure; somewhere central so that more wikipedians can attend - and so that representatives of GLAM institutions, many of which are based in south Mumbai can also participate. (Maybe something longer - so we can really learn from the experience...)
Cheers - and let's welcome Liam to Mumbai,
Bishakha
PS- The Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2011 is also on in Mumbai when you are here, Liam.
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On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Pradeep Mohandas < pradeep.mohandas@gmail.com> wrote:
hi, If there are any people in the group who edit this category of articles
and
are from Mumbai, we'd love to meetup once before Liam comes to Mumbai. I had suggested to Bishaka and Liam that doing something in the J J School of Art made sense to get students interested. They know something about
art
and can help with contributions. If you guys disagree or have a better
place
for such a meetup do feel free to suggest it on the list. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas
On 25 January 2011 12:24, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.com wrote:
Dear wikimedians in Mumbai,
It's a pleasure to informally announce that Liam Wyatt (user wittylama) will be in Mumbai 12-14 February as part of a longer visit to India to do some GLAM work.
Liam recently became a Wikimedia Fellow -
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/19/announcing-our-glam-fellow-liam-wy...
As part of this, his visit to India is intended to support wikimedia communities to explore the possibilities of collaborating with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) in strengthening articles on wikipedia of mutual interest.
Liam was the wikipedian in residence at the British Museum last year - I attended his presentation on this at Wikimania in July 2010 and was
struck
by the possibilities it threw up of working with GLAM institutions.
We're extremely lucky to have Liam with us; how can we make his visit productive for all?
I propose a meetup/workshop for sure; somewhere central so that more wikipedians can attend - and so that representatives of GLAM
institutions,
many of which are based in south Mumbai can also participate. (Maybe something longer - so we can really learn from the experience...)
Cheers - and let's welcome Liam to Mumbai,
Bishakha
PS- The Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2011 is also on in Mumbai when you are here, Liam.
The other possibility is TISS. I am copying this to my contact there, let us see if we can create wikipedians there.
Alpesh, can you speak to your librarian and others to check if they are interested.
-- GN
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Nagarjuna G nagarjun@gnowledge.org wrote:
The other possibility is TISS. I am copying this to my contact there, let us see if we can create wikipedians there.
Alpesh, can you speak to your librarian and others to check if they are interested.
If it is TISS, I can talk to Anjali Monteiro and Shilpa Phadke about
involving the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies (CMCS) grad students.
Bishakha
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Nagarjuna G nagarjun@gnowledge.orgwrote:
The other possibility is TISS. I am copying this to my contact there, let us see if we can create wikipedians there.
Alpesh, can you speak to your librarian and others to check if they are interested.
If it is TISS, I can talk to Anjali Monteiro and Shilpa Phadke about
involving the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies (CMCS) grad students.
They are trying to create a digital archive. Alpesh is involved in the work. Alpesh works with Anjali as well. let us take this up. also, a place like tiss should be slowly invovled in mikimania :-)
-- GN
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