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_Community_Fellow>,
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/Interview>
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_Council/Interviews>,”
series.
- Education about citation and Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_OA-ness>
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_Council>
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