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 This can be everything from bringing historical documents to the web for the first time (via wikisource/Commons), using primary source documents to give better footnotes to articles (from libraries/archives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(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Nagarjuna G <nagarjun(a)gnowledge.org> wrote: involving the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies (CMCS) grad students. Bishakha