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
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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
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> This is sure to be of interest to many of you:
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> 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/>
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
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Royal Academy of Arts
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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.
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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
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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
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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:
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[1]
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2013/Talk_submissions
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
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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
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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
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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.*
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...
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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
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Wikimedia UK
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@StevieBenton
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global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the
Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
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control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
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