Congratulations Noopur !!
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa.com(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> Congrats !!!
>
> May I suggest to create QR entries also alongwith the regular GLAM work
> for the museum.
> The could be a great start for this GLAM project and will also give real
> value addition to the museum.
>
> Don't know how much efforts and technical resources will be required for
> the same.
>
> Regards
> -Sudhanwa
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Noopur <noopur.raval(a)gmail.com
wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> I am extremely delighted to announce India's first (?) GLAM collaboration
>> with a State institution in New Delhi, the capital of India. The*National
Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum (NHHM)
>> *, New Delhi has approved our draft and we will soon begin a 6 month
>> pilot project with them.
>> I have been corresponding with their director for over 2 months now,
>> since the GLAMcamp in Amsterdam. After a series of conversations with the
>> Director, Dr Ruchira Ghose, I sent in an approval and after two meetings,
>> she sent in a revised proposal to the Ministry of Culture in India. Just
>> two days ago, the Ministry approved this project and has also provided her
>> a small grant to support our incidental expenses. NHHM has over 30,000
>> objects including pottery, textiles, metal work, paintings and more.
>>
>> *Goals:*
>>
>> - 6 month pilot project to churn out 25 'Good Articles'.
>> - Training staff and capacity building
>> - Recruiting 10 new editors from art colleges to work on site for
>> digitization/documentation
>> - Make the museum a regular avenue for GLAM meets
>>
>> Note: Good Articles here doesn't mean GA by en-WP standards. We intend to
>> create at least 25 articles with substantial information. Would like your
>> inputs on this.
>>
>> *Challenges: *
>>
>> - Delhi has a small community, so we *really *need help from EVERYONE
>> possible, local and global
>> - The staff members are only comfortable with Hindi, so we'd
>> appreciate ALL help possible from hi-WP editors
>> - *Biggest challenge: *India is a vast country with craft traditions
>> in millions of villages. So, at the time of acquiring, many art objects do
>> not come with published information, documentation and references. Much of
>> this stuff is 'word of mouth', oral traditions and stories of artisans
etc.
>> We have asked the Museum to start documenting and publishing these stories
>> under their Publication cell BUT that will take time. Do you think using
>> oral citations in this case would be helpful?
>> - Since this is my/our first time, we will appreciate guidance on
>> scanning, making an MoU and help creating/maintaining the project page. Can
>> someone please help? *makes puppy face*
>>
>> I apologize for this really long mail but, my next meeting with the
>> Director is on the 14th of February when we will start our 'lead-up'
>> program to the project.
>> *To all the WiRs: *Did you make some sort of a program schedule or a
>> timeline that I could use?
>>
>> I would love all your suggestions on this project and am *very* excited
>> to make my own share of GLAM contributions and mistakes :) Of course, now
>> we will also start contributing to TGIM.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Noopur
>>
>> --
>> Noopur Raval
>> Student
>> Arts and Aesthetics
>> Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
>> Ph: 9650567690
>>
>>
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