Hello list, especially Sydneysiders,
A friend of mine, Donna Benjamin, is organising an event in Sydney in
October called "Open-Edge" (as in education I think).
http://open-edge.info/ They have relatively short speaking slots
(15-30 minutes) and I think it would be great if there was a
Wikimedian presentation there.
Does anyone feel up for it? She is looking to finalise the line-up
relatively soon.
If you have never presented before, those of us who have can give you
some tips for what to cover, common questions etc. There are also
quite a few existing slide sets etc you can draw on. It's quite a
short time so you don't need to present the comprehensive thing ever,
and the audience should be quite friendly.
Anyone keen?
thanks,
Brianna
Hello!
Since the chapter committee is all in town this weekend, Melburnites,
please join us Sunday afternoon for a late lunch/afternoon tea.
from 2.30 Sunday
Cheeky Monkey, 89 Swan St, Richmond.
Take #70 tram or it's a short walk up Swan St from Richmond train station.
and/or record your intend to attend forevermore, via
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Melbourne_15 .
Hope to see you there.
cheers
Brianna
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They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:
http://modernthings.org/
Those working in universities, archives, libraries, museums, health services and public service broadcasters might be interested in this JISC survey below on orphaned works. It aims to establish how much time, effort and money is spent on
orphan works across Europe by people working in the public sector and to find out the effect orphan works have on cultural heritage preservation at an international level.
Jessica Coates
Project Manager
Creative Commons Clinic
Queensland University of Technology
ph: 07 3138 8301
fax: 07 3138 9395
email: j2.coates(a)qut.edu.au
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Subject: News release: Contribute to international survey on orphan
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News release
21 January 2010
Contribute to international survey on orphan works
Experts who create and curate digital content from public sector
organisations across Europe, are invited to contribute to JISC's
international survey on 'orphan works' called 'In from the Cold Europa
2010'.
There are millions of so-called 'orphan works' - photographs,
recordings,
texts and other ephemera from the last 100 years - which risk becoming
invisible because rights holders are not known or easy to trace.
Now this topic is the focus of this survey commissioned by the JISC-led
Strategic Content Alliance in conjunction with the Association of
European
Research Libraries (LIBER), the European Bureau of Library, Information
and
Documentation Associations (EBLIDA) and the Wellcome Trust.
The survey aims to establish how much time, effort and money is spent on
orphan works across Europe by people working in the public sector and to
find out the effect orphan works have on cultural heritage preservation
at
an international level.
Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Media, said:
"If we do not reform our European copyright rules on orphan works and libraries
swiftly, digitisation and the development of attractive content offers
will not take place in Europe, but on the other side of the Atlantic."
Organisations such as universities, archives, libraries, museums, health
services and public service broadcasters are invited to participate.
Although no particular technical knowledge is required, the survey does
Ask participants to fill in relatively detailed information about the
collections (digital and analogue) held or licensed by your
organisation.
In May 2009 over 500 organisations took part in the UK-only orphan works
online questionnaire which showed that rich primary resources are being
'warehoused' at public expense - with little or no prospect of them
Being delivered online to the public without additional costs and/or risks
Being imposed on the public purse.
Take part in the international survey at
<http://surveys.polldaddy.com/s/476EBBEAF7ED1854/> to help provide real
comparisons between European countries on the impact of orphan works.
The closing date is 26 February 2010 at 1800 GMT.
Find out more about the issues surrounding this topic by reading the 'In
>From The Cold: an assessment of the scope of orphan works' report at
<http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/files/2009/06/sca_colltrust_orphan_works_v1-
final.pdf>
This report shows how the UK is in real danger of losing 20th century
materials due to the current copyright laws, the levels of resources
needed to trace the rights for each orphan work and the potential lock down of
access to these important works.
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Hi all,
It's great to see some uptake of IdeaScale for the brainstorming.
Here's what's up so far:
http://wmau.ideascale.com/
-Review reports from other chapters for ideas
-Create Wikimedia-based lesson plans for K-12 teachers to use
-Get a professional marketing plan to convince GLAMs about benefit of
free culture collaboration
-Chapter blog and/or twitter feed
-Improve the hosting of wikimedia.org.au
-Create information kit to enable people to do outreach
-Different strokes
-open up the official wiki......goodness is sure to follow!
-Use geo-sitenotices
-Bid for Wikimania
I have re-titled some to be more descriptive. When you are adding
ideas, please try to keep them "SMART" (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria ) especially specific,
measurable and time-bound. Think about, how would you objectively
judge when that idea was satisfied or complete?
Having said that, I also encourage everyone to re-read our statement
of purpose http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Statement_of_Purpose and
"think big". We must dream it before we can do it. Keep adding your
ideas and comments!
Brianna
--
They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:
http://modernthings.org/
Hello members and friends,
At the end of January, the committee is having a face to face meeting
in Melbourne to get to know one another, strategise and make plans for
2010.
Before that meeting, it will be useful to have some explicit
brainstorming as a way for the committee to collect some idea of what
we collectively consider important, or would like to see.
Last year we did a brief survey, which wasn't a huge success; this
year I would like to try something different. I set up a site for us
at http://wmau.ideascale.com/
This site lets anyone suggest an idea, and others can put a number of
votes to support various ideas. I have it configured so that anyone
who registers with IdeaScale can add a new idea or vote on ideas. With
voting, every user has a fixed number of votes (50 I think), and you
can put multiple votes on an idea if you really like it. If you don't
like an idea, just don't give it any votes. :) You can also of course
add comments, and that is probably the most valuable thing you can do.
I would guess this is most useful for 1) things that take longer than
a week to plan and 2) things that involve or have some impact on the
membership and/or general public. So this will not encompass all of
the committee's responsibilities; some tech and policy and governance
things won't be relevant to mention here.
Secondly for Melburnians, we are planning to arrange a meetup for one
of the meals on the weekend, probably in Richmond or the CBD. The
details will appear soon at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Melbourne_15 .
Please feel free to give your feedback on this list or privately.
thanks,
Brianna
WMAU president
http://gov2.net.au/blog/2009/12/22/final-taskforce-report-released/
This is a bit belated, as it was released in 22 December – but I thought people would be interested in the final report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce established in June to advise the Australian government on "increasing the openness of government through making public sector information more widely available to promote transparency, innovation and value adding to government information" and "encouraging online engagement with the aim of drawing in the information, knowledge, perspectives, resources and even, where possible, the active collaboration of anyone wishing to contribute to public life."
Key findings of the report - Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0 - include:
· “Government 2.0 or the use of the new collaborative tools and approaches of Web 2.0 offers an unprecedented opportunity to achieve more open, accountable, responsive and efficient government.
· Though it involves new technology, Government 2.0 is really about a new approach to organising and governing. It will draw people into a closer and more collaborative relationship with their government. Australia has an opportunity to resume its leadership in seizing these opportunities and capturing the resulting social and economic benefits.
· Leadership, and policy and governance changes are needed to shift public sector culture and practice to make government information more accessible and usable, make government more consultative, participatory and transparent, build a culture of online innovation within Government, and to promote collaboration across agencies.
…
· Information collected by or for the public sector — is a national resource which should be managed for public purposes. That means that we should reverse the current presumption that it is secret unless there are good reasons for release and presume instead that it should be freely available for anyone to use and transform unless there are compelling privacy, confidentially or security considerations.”
Most importantly from our point of view – the report (which is under a BY licence) wholeheartedly endorses Creative Commons Attribution as the default licence for government material.
Also of interest is the Appendix “Troubleshooting concerns about Creative Commons licensing” which contains an excellent summary of, and responses to, common concerns raised about using Creative Commons in a government (and non-government) licensing context.
Hopefully this well researched and written report will lead to more wholesale adoption of open government principles and Creative Commons in Australia and internationally.
Jessica Coates
Project Manager
Creative Commons Clinic
Queensland University of Technology
ph: 07 3138 8301
fax: 07 3138 9395
email: j2.coates(a)qut.edu.au