Hi All,
I'm happy to say, that the month of August is my 1-year anniversary at the
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) as Wikipedian-in-Residence
and Open Data Fellow. We've done a lot of great events and outreach to
promote Open Access and Wikipedia and are looking forward to the future.
In order to be transparent, I will be giving periodic updates about our
institutional Wikipedia activities. Please find below a short list of
events we are working on for the fall, some in collaboration with Wikimedia
NYC or directly with the Wikimedia Foundation.
As many of you know, I received a Wikimedia Foundation PEG grant
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Metro/Institutional_Growth_and_C…>,
active in late July to continue and expand my work as
Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council. As a
result of the grant, I am at METRO 3 days a week and will be until the end
of January, 2015.
Please note that I have not mentioned institutions which I am in initial
talks with below, as some prefer to be private until they have fully
decided to engage. That said, if you have any more specific questions about
an institution, I’d be happy to engage your inquiry. I hope to see you at
some of the upcoming events!
*Future Events *
- *Guggenheim Edit-a-Thon* in their newly remodeled Education Center (89th
St.), planned for *Archives Week*, (10/09/14). Theme: “Museum
Architecture,” *The Guggenheim Venice* also to host a remote event on the
same day. (Event pages up soon).
- *NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture* *Edit-a-Thon*–
(West Harlem, 135th st) Theme: “The Harlem Renaissance.” *Jointly organized
with Michael D. Lewis and Wikimedia NYC* – TBD Date in late October.
- *Pratt School of Information and Library Science Edit-a-Thon:* Planning
fall Edit-a-Thon at Pratt's Manhattan Branch on 14th w/ librarian
organizers and SILSSA (student chapter of the American Library
Association). Date TBD.
- International *Art+Feminism Edit-a-Thon Campaign #2, *with *Wikimedia
Foundation* official endorsement - late fall. Several events in NYC. Dates
announced soon.
*Future METRO HQ Events (some for METRO members only) *
- *1 Year Anniversary of Wikipedia at METRO*, networking hour in the METRO
workshop space.
- Planning a *3 Part Webinar series*, which will be recorded live METRO and
made available to the public soon after. Themes: (1) Reference and Citation
on Wikipedia (2) Wikipedia, Libraries, and Education (3) Wikipedia and
Medicine.
- Planning a *Workshop on Open Image Licenses, *Wikimedia Commons, and
Options for Open Access Digital Repositories for Images. (For members).
- Planning a few more beginning Wikipedia editing trainings for librarians
and archivists.
*Resources and Writing *
- Making an “organizer’s packet” for Edit-a-thons with a checklist for “day
of” event metrics gathering, reporting and post-event metrics. (Attached)
Let me know if you have input as this is all fairly new!
- Recent Interview
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-08-20/Inter…>
with Michael Szajewski, digital development archivist at Ball State
University, about Ball State University Library’s engagement with
Wikipedia. As part of “Interview with a librarian
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan_New_York_Library_…>,”
series.
- Education about citation and Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_…>
and DOIs (digital object identifiers) and Wikipedia via ambassadorial role
<http://crosstech.crossref.org/2014/08/citation-needed.html> as CrossRef
Wikipedia Ambassador.
*Documentation*
- Working with Program Evaluation to create a metrics-gathering plan
for all of METRO’s events, and for the project as a whole
- Continual documentation of affiliate projects at:
“Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan
New York Library Council
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan_New_York_Library_…>
As always, feel free to contact me about any of these projects, or further
ideas for GLAM collaboration.
The Best,
Dorothy Howard
*User: OR drohowa *
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Dorothy Howard, Wikipedian-in-Residence and Open Data Fellow
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127
Hi All,
I was talking to another today about interest in setting up a WikiData
learning event in Manhattan, where the entire focus is on educating
ourselves and each other about the possible uses of WikiData.
WikiData was a big focus of the tech track at Wikimania, and among the
murmurings of most other sessions.
I think we could use some sort of informal meetup where we can all learn
better ways of using it, and perhaps also what kinds of projects we can
suggest it to. For me, I want to start talking to GLAMs about it, but I
don't know a lot of use cases of institutions doing so (yet!)
Anyone else have interest? Perhaps we could do this meetup somewhere in
lower Manhattan (WiFi a necessity!)
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Dorothy
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Dorothy Howard, Wikipedian-in-Residence and Open Data Fellow
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127
Hi All,
At our last meeting this past Sunday 8/17/14, an interest in Wikimedia NYC
forming a Program Evaluation and Metrics Gathering subcommittee for the
chapter was identified, and I was nominated to head this committee.
I'd like to take the opportunity for anyone interested in helping me draft
a 6 month or 1 year plan (we will discuss timelines etc.) for metrics
gathering and evaluation to join this subcommittee.
I think it makes sense to plan a Google Hangout, or perhaps an IRL meetup
just for us to discuss the drafting of such a plan and to move it forward.
Please email me if you are interested in receiving notifications about this
effort and/or want to be part of the subcommittee or have any further
questions.
Thanks very much,
Dorothy
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Dorothy Howard, Wikipedian-in-Residence and Open Data Fellow
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127
You are invited to join us at the 'Wiki-Salon and Skill Share', a community
event of knowledge-sharing for those of all levels of experience with
Wikipedia, on Sunday August 17 on the Upper West Side.
The main meeting runs from 2-5pm, and afterward we'll walk to a social
wiki-dinner together at a neighborhood restaurant
We welcome all interest from the education, museum and library, and
nonprofit worlds, and from everyone in any community interested in building
a bigger, broader and better Wikipedia.
For those in education, this can be a good way to kick off the Fall
wiki-semester! We'll be glad to help advise/assist with any course project.
For those who experienced our old community meetings at Columbia
University, the Wiki-Salon is an effort to get back to that style of
broad-ranging community discussion.
---Location---
Yeoryia Studios at Epic Security Building, 2067 Broadway, 5th Floor
Between West 71st & West 72nd Streets, above Gigi Cafe, near Trader Joe's
By 72nd Street station (1,2,3 subway lines)
---Sign up and more info---
Our page on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
Our page on Meetup.com:
http://www.meetup.com/WikimediaNYC/events/198921032/
You can officially 'sign up' at either of these pages, and please add your
ideas to the agenda!
I'll also be glad to answer any question you may have about the Wiki Salon.
Thanks,
Richard (User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC Chapter
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