Hello everyone,
Forwarding this as it may be of interest.
Thank you,
Stevie
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From: JOHNSTON, Neil <
Hi all,
I’m forwarding the below on behalf of Ed Parkes at Nesta.
Best wishes,
Neil.
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*From:* Ed Parkes [mailto:Ed.Parkes@nesta.org.uk]
*Sent:* 11 September 2014 15:46
*To:*
*Subject:* Heritage and Culture Open Data Challenge - Invite for ALBs to
Roundtable and Workshop (9th & 20th October)
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Neil
Thanks very much for having us along to the recent Open Data Forum with the
ALBs. Briony felt the session went well and has heard from a couple of the
attendees already. At the meeting, she mentioned that you offered to send
out an invitation to the ALBs for two forthcoming events - which will both
help us design the challenge question for the Heritage and Culture
challenge. I wonder whether you would be able to send the following
information on in the next couple of days and encourage relevant colleagues
to sign up to attend through Eventbrite? We’re really keen to get
engagement from a wide number of Heritage and Culture organisations as
possible and your help here would be greatly appreciated. We’d also
appreciate your presence at one or both of the meetings as well!
The Heritage and Culture Open Data Challenge is the 6th Challenge in the Open
Data Challenge Series <http://www.nesta.org.uk/open-data-challenge-series> and
will help support innovators to use open data to help solve a challenge in
the area of Heritage and Culture. Offering a £40,000 grand prize, we will
set a specific challenge question drawing on the experience and knowledge
of people working within the sector. We’re hoping to build on related
activity in this sector undertaken both by ODI and Nesta (e.g. Digital R&D
fund, Data as Culture) as well as work happening elsewhere. Bringing
organisations from the Heritage and Culture sectors will also hopefully
bring a new lens to shared interests and user needs. At this stage in our
initial exploration of the challenge, we have two opportunities firstly for
us to be clearer about what issue to focus the challenge question on and
secondly to start to develop a bank of relevant open data from the sector:
*Organisation and User Needs Roundtable - 9th October at 10:00 – 12:00
at Nesta, 1 Plough Place, London EC4A 1DE*
We’d like to invite relevant DCMS ALB stakeholders to a roundtable workshop
on 9th October to help us shape our Heritage and Culture Open Data
Challenge. The Roundtable Discussion is on 9th October at 10:00 – 12:00
at Nesta, 1 Plough Place, London EC4A 1DE. Please sign up here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heritage-culture-open-data-challenge-roundta…
This roundtable workshop is part of the process leading up to our Challenge
Definition Day and is an opportunity for us to more broadly understand the
issues across the sector. The aims of the roundtable are:
· Explore the broad needs of organisations
· Explore the key needs of users
This will help us more clearly target our challenge on an topic which is
of most relevance and is likely to have a substantial social impact, whilst
not being distracted by the data that is currently available. We are
inviting key stakeholders in the area as well as relevant contacts in
government to discuss the issues and we’d be delighted if you would attend.
We are organising a separate workshop at the ODI for relevant data
publishers to explore the data that is available in this area (see below)
and so this roundtable will not include a discussion on data.
*Data Workshop - 21st October at 14:00 - 16:00 at The Open Data Institute,
3rd floor, 65 Clifton Street, EC2A 4JE*
Over the coming weeks, we will compile a bank of open data related to
heritage and culture. This bank of open data will form the main 'raw
material' for the challenge and will be drawn from data.gov.uk, individual
organisation websites and personal recommendations. Once the data is
compiled, the session on 21st October will explain how we have rated the
data, how it will be used in the challenge and will give data publishers
some pointers on how they could improve the quality and rating of their
open data.
This session is designed to be practical - particularly for those people in
relevant organisations who work directly with the data, preparing it to be
shared. After the session, we hope to build ongoing relationships with data
owners to ensure the improvements made to the data continue to be shared
with potential participants in the challenge and to enable them, as data
owners to have oversight of the ways in which their data is being used. We
would be keen for relevant stakeholders from DCMS ALBs to attend this
workshop. Please sign up here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heritage-culture-open-data-challenge-data-wo…
In readiness for this session, please email briony.phillips(a)theodi.org if
you have a specific dataset that you would like to be highlighted in the
challenge guide.
Many thanks in advance
Ed
Ed Parkes | Senior Programme Manager - Open Data | Nesta | m: +44(0)7792
303 486 | @edtparkes <https://twitter.com/edtparkes>
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Hello everyone,
Open Access Week <http://www.openaccessweek.org/page/about> is coming up
soon, from 20-26 October. Does anyone have any ideas about how we might
participate in this event, or help to promote the important idea of open
access?
All ideas welcome.
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Just in case anyone missed this.
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From: Siko Bouterse <sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 2 September 2014 18:26
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Open call for Individual Engagement Grant proposals
To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Greetings! The Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grants program is
accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG>
Your idea can improve Wikimedia projects by building a new tool or gadget,
organizing a better process on your wiki, conducting research on an
important issue, or providing other support for community-building. Whether
you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your
own project development time in addition to funding for a team to help you.
The program has a flexible schedule and reporting structure, and
Grantmaking staff are there to support you through all stages of the
process.
Do you have have a good idea, but you are worried that it isn’t developed
enough for a grant? Put it into the IdeaLab, where volunteers and staff
can give you advice and guidance on how to bring it to life. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab> Also, IEG will be hosting
three Hangout Sessions for real-time discussions to help you make your
proposal better - the first will happen on September 16th. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Events#Upcoming_events>
For inspiration, you can read more about past projects <
https://blog.wikimedia.org/tag/individual-engagement-grants/> that received
funding or review open proposals <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-reviewing>. We are excited
to see some of the new ways your grant ideas can support our community and
make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects.
Submit your proposal in September! <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-apply>
Warm regards,
Siko
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There will be a Wiki meetup taking place in Edinburgh on Sunday, 28 September from 1pm at The Brew Lab, 6-8 South College St. This will be our 7th meetup in Edinburgh, and we very much hope that we will see many faces both new and old!
The Brew Lab is located on South College Street, just behind the University of Edinburgh's Old College, and provides food, coffee, and free WiFi. More details on the event, including directions and a map, are available here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Edinburgh_7
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Hello everyone,
Wikimedia UK today announces that Padmini Ray Murray is to step down from
the charity's Board of Trustees. She will be taking a new position teaching
digital humanities at Shristi School of Art, Design and Technology
<http://www.srishti.ac.in/> in Bangalore.
Padmini joined the board of Wikimedia UK in November 2013 and brought with
her an excellent skill set and great enthusiasm and expertise. Her final
day as a trustee will be Thursday 18 September.
Michael Maggs, Chair of Wikimedia UK, said: “On behalf of the Board I would
like to thank Padmini for all of her efforts and support during her time as
a trustee of the charity. We all wish her the very best for the future.”
Work is ongoing to appoint a replacement for Padmini which the Board is
confident will be completed soon.
Thanks and regards,
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Cambridge meetup 23 will be next month:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/23
Please come - I promise there will be fewer talks than at Wikimania, but
the conversation will be up to the same standard.
Charles
Hello everyone,
We have a great event coming up for anyone interested in the cinema-going
experience - a backstage pass event at the Cinema Museum.
The event takes place on Saturday 11 October and everyone is welcome. Take
a look at the event page here -
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Cinema_Museum_Back_Stage_Pass
Thank you,
Stevie
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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.*
I am delighted to confirm that the first LGBT editathon in the UK will
be running on Saturday 18th October at Bishopsgate Library.
The library is well known for hosting LGBT archives, including
materials for the UK Campaign for Homosexual Equality, a huge
collection of early LGBT literature, LGBT rights protest literature
and materials, and Gay News (later Gay Times) archives including
original press photography.
Please sign up if you are interested in finding out more about the
archives, and would like to join us in improving the content of
Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons better to represent UK LGBT+ history
and culture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_LGBT_studies/Editathons/…
The editathon is part of a global initiative by the Wikimedia LGBT+
User Group to increase the quality of knowledge for LGBT topics on
Wikimedia projects.
Links:
* WM-LGBT+ User Group - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT/Portal
* Pride editathons -
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/07/07/wikipedia-holds-pride-edit-a-thons-to-…
Cheers,
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