Wikimediauk-l February 2013

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Wikimedia UK January report
by Stevie Benton 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Hello everyone, We're coming up to the time where we need to publish our January activity report. The draft report is at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2013/January and if you were involved in any activity you'd like to share please do add some content to the report! I'm planning to publish this by this time next week. Please also bear in mind that it's time for our annual review to be put together. There's a working draft on the UK wiki at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2013_Annual_Report and lots of sub sections that you;re welcome to contribute to. Please do take a look! Thanks and regards, Stevie -- Stevie Benton Communications Organiser Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition, catalogues (1870-1939) digitised and available via the RA website
by John Byrne 19 Feb '13

19 Feb '13

Thanks, Andy, & good to know. I'd be more impressed if they'd followed the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and put on line all their recent huge glossy exhibition catalogues, up to about 5 years ago. Admittedly these are PDF but the 1050 items already online at http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p15324coll10 represent a fantastic resource, which I'm working with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WilliamDigiCol to insert as external links or further reading at relevant WP articles - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WilliamDigiCol/Archive. Older catalogues are much more basic listings than the big modern ones, and in most cases won't be worth linking in the same way - for the MMA I don't think usually anything from before the 1970s is worth a link. John On 19/02/2013 10:01, wikimediauk-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:00:58 +0000 > From: Andy Mabbett<andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> > To:"wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" > <wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration > [Public]"<glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition > catalogues (1870-1939) digitised and available via the RA website > Message-ID: > <CABiXOEmT4H5bFfOHuE5CPtCVMj+kSBn=2+MdVqCKoWK5+jhuXA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > This is sure to be of interest to many of you: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Adam Waterton"<Adam.Waterton(a)royalacademy.org.uk> > Date: Feb 19, 2013 8:19 AM > Subject: Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition catalogues (1870-1939) > digitised and available via the RA website > To:<MCG(a)jiscmail.ac.uk> > > Some of you may be interested in a new resource that has just been added to > the Royal Academy of Arts Collections website. > > The Royal Academy Winter loan Exhibition catalogues from their inception in > 1870 to 1939 have been digitised in their entirety and are now available to > search and browse online via the Royal Academy Website. > www.racollection.org.uk<http://www.racollection.org.uk/>

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Fwd: Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition catalogues (1870-1939) digitised and available via the RA website
by Andy Mabbett 19 Feb '13

19 Feb '13

This is sure to be of interest to many of you: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Adam Waterton" <Adam.Waterton(a)royalacademy.org.uk> Date: Feb 19, 2013 8:19 AM Subject: Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition catalogues (1870-1939) digitised and available via the RA website To: <MCG(a)jiscmail.ac.uk> Some of you may be interested in a new resource that has just been added to the Royal Academy of Arts Collections website. The Royal Academy Winter loan Exhibition catalogues from their inception in 1870 to 1939 have been digitised in their entirety and are now available to search and browse online via the Royal Academy Website. www.racollection.org.uk<http://www.racollection.org.uk/> >From their inception in 1870 through to the outbreak of the First World War the format of the RA Winter exhibitions remained fairly constant; generally consisting of Old Master paintings borrowed from private collections accompanied by works by recently deceased British artists. From 1920 onwards the exhibitions programme began to evolve and the RA started to organise major art historical survey exhibitions drawing upon expert scholarship such as Flemish & Belgian Art 1300-1900 (1927), Italian Art 1200-1900 (1930) and French Art 1200-1900 (1932). In addition, for the first time, supplementary illustrated catalogues began to be published, in tandem with the traditional un-illustrated `lists of works`. As well as including reproductions of c.3000 of the works shown in the exhibitions, these illustrated catalogues included introductory essays by renowned art historians such as Sir James G. Mann (1897-1962), Sir Robert Witt (1872-1952) and Adolfo Venturi (1856-1941). These catalogues are now available to browse and search online via the Royal Academy website< http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=tem… > Many of the works lent to these exhibitions now reside in major museum and gallery collections such as Tate, National Gallery of Ireland, Yale Center for British Art, Wallace Collection, etc. We have included thumbnail images of many of these works, with embedded hotlinks to take the researcher to the pages on the owner institutions website where larger images and more information can be found. We've also digitised a selection of installation photographs from the RA's Photo Archive which show how the exhibitions were displayed. How it works: Click on the RA Collections<http://www.racollection.org.uk/> landing page ( www.racollection.org.uk<http://www.racollection.org.uk/>) Browse On the RA Collections page click on the Exhibition Catalogue< http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=tem…> link to view thumbnail images of the title pages of each catalogue. Click on a thumbnail image to display a large image of the title-page. Use the Next & Previous buttons to browse through the catalogue. You can also enter search terms in the Search within the catalogue box to search for artists, titles and lenders within the catalogue. This will display a list of the pages on which your search terms were found. Below the catalogue pages you will also find thumbnail images of some of the works that were exhibited in the exhibitions. Clicking on a thumbnail image will take you to a page displaying a larger image and more information about that work. Searching You can search across all the catalogues in two ways: 1: Enter a search term in the quick search box at the top of the RA Collections homepage. This will search through all the exhibition catalogues as well as the RA's own collections of works of art, historic books and archives. 2: Click on the Search Exhibition Catalogues< http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=tem…> option on the RA Collections homepage. >From here you can search by exhibition title, exhibition date, or carry out a free-text search of the entire contents of the catalogues for the names of artists, lenders or titles of works. We are very excited to be able to make this resource available electronically to the international research community via the web. This project was made possible with funding from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, to whom we are extremely grateful. Any feedback and comments that you have about the resource will be gratefully received and will help us to refine and improve it in future. Regards, Adam Adam Waterton Head of Library Services Royal Academy of Arts Burlington House Piccadilly London W1V 0DS T: 020 7300 5740 | F: 020 7300 5765 | E: adam.waterton(a)royalacademy.org.uk <mailto:adam.waterton@royalacademy.org.uk> Royal Academy Library and Archive www.royalacademy.org.uk/collectionsandlibrary< http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/collectionsandlibrary> The Royal Academy of Arts Collection Online www.racollection.org.uk<http://www.racollection.org.uk/> The Royal Academy of Arts is a registered charity under Registered Charity Number 1125383 and is also registered as a company limited by guarantee in England and Wales under Company Number 6298947. Registered office: Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BD. **************************************************************** website: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ukmcg Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/museumscomputergroup [un]subscribe: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/email-list/ ****************************************************************

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WMUK risk register
by Jon Davies 19 Feb '13

19 Feb '13

Here is the WMUK risk register <http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Risk_Register>for the community to see and on the talk page comments will be welcomed. This is a document that has emerged from a slow gestation. The board is keen for the community to have access to our risk register and statements. It will be reviewed by staff quarterly with a report to the board on the top five risks, or more should I consider there to* be* more. It fits alongside the annual programme and work plan which is also going to be reported quarterly. Jon PS Thanks to the volunteer who worked to get it to look so nice. -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk

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Fwd: [OSGeo-UK] FOSS4G is coming to Nottingham!
by Gordon Joly 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

FYI, No website for 2013 as yet, but see... http://2012.foss4g.org/ http://foss4g.org/ Context: 1) Open Source, Open Knowledge, Open Data. 2) A major international conference comes to the UK. Gordo -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [OSGeo-UK] FOSS4G is coming to Nottingham! Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:32:58 +0100 From: Jo Cook <jocook(a)astuntechnology.com> To: uk(a)lists.osgeo.org uk(a)lists.osgeo.org <uk(a)lists.osgeo.org> Dear All, As you may have heard, FOSS4G will be coming to Nottingham in 2013! Our heartfelt thanks to anyone who helped with the bidding process, particularly those people that wrote a letter of support for the bid. Keep listening for further announcements and news as organisation progresses! Thanks again Jo -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 750 095 8167 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform <http://www.isharemaps.com/> ***************************************** Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149.

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WikiConference UK 2013 - talk submissions now being sought
by Harry Mitchell 15 Feb '13

15 Feb '13

Hi folks, The Conference Committee is now seeking submissions from the community for talks at WikiConference UK 2013, which is to be held in Lincoln on Saturday, 8 June. If you have an idea for a talk you'd like to give (for example a project you're working on or an organisation you're involved with that has similar aims to WMUK), please propose it here [1]. Presentations should ideally be concise, and please indicate if you are able to give a longer or shorter version. The deadline for submissions and the proportion of the conference that will be given over for talks will be announced in due course. Any questions, please contact me at this email address or by the details below or the Conference Committee (cc'd). Thanks, -- Harry Mitchell, Wikimedia UK Conference Committee Tel: +44 (0) 24 7698 0977 Mob: +44 (0) 7585 357 416 Skype: harry_j_mitchell Links: ------ [1] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2013/Talk_submissions

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Call for Tellers
by Richard Symonds 15 Feb '13

15 Feb '13

All, At present, myself and LondonStatto are likely to be tellers for the AGM (and the planned EGM). However, I'm hoping that there will be someone else who would be willing to step forward to help administer the election in an impartial manner (eg counting votes, deciding lengths of statements, etc. This would need a few visits to the office (expenses paid) and a little bit of a time commitment. Prior experience would be helpful but not necessary. If you're interested, please let me know privately. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*

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Looking at the next five years – a day workshop on the future of Wikimedia UK
by Stevie Benton 14 Feb '13

14 Feb '13

Hello everyone, I just wanted to drop you a line to let you know about an event Wikimedia UK is holding in March. We're opening up our office to bring together volunteers, trustees and staff for a workshop looking at our plans for the next five years and the future of Wikimedia UK. You can find the details at http://bit.ly/wikiday and we really hope to see you there! Thanks and regards, Stevie Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*

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Photograph cropping day!
by Andrew Gray 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hi all, As some of you may know, I've been working on a project part-funded by WMUK to digitise and release a collection of historic Canadian photographs. After some work, we are now at a state where the metadata is at a high level of quality, and the glorious high-resolution TIFFs are piling up - there's currently about 2,000 waiting to go, and more are going to roll in. It's all very exciting, and I'm really looking forward to a big announcement once we've got them all on Commons. Unfortunately, they all look like this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Mont… and in terms of being useful on Commons, it would be good if we could offer this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Mont… Rather than a couple of us spend hours every day for a month working on these, we thought we might try and do it in one go - I'm currently seeing if I can get a room at the British Library one afternoon, set up some laptops, bring in some coffee and sandwiches, and have a shot at breaking through the entire collection. Having a group of people look at the images also means we'll have more eyes looking out for interesting things, which can only be a bonus :-) We don't have a date yet, but tentatively we're thinking early/mid March. If anyone would be interested, in coming along, do let me know, and I'll be in touch once we've got fimer plans... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk

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Wikimedian in Residence with Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
by Stevie Benton 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hello everyone, I'm really pleased to be able to tell you that Wikimedia UK has teamed up with Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums to develop a role for a Wikimedian in Residence. Full details of this role, including how to apply, are on our blog at http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/02/tyne-wear-archives-museums-and-wikimed… The closing date is 12pm on Monday 4 March 2013. Good luck if you're applying, and do share with anyone you think may be interested! Thanks and regards, Stevie -- Stevie Benton Communications Organiser Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*

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