On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:39 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi
<spanigrahi@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I whole heatedly congratulate you for this real success, oral citation seem
> to be a good way of collecting sources as most of the stuff they'd be having
> will have a documented format in the minds of people which we would be
> documented only via oral citation.
>
> Subha
>
> On 11-Feb-2012, at 1:11 AM, Noopur <noopur.raval@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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