'Does the UK chapter have any plans to do more to promote GLAM reuse of
our free archives, or to bang the drum a bit more in GLAM journals
where this happens successfully?'

Hi Fae, from my point of view, I would certainly like to promote GLAM reuse of CC licensed material more, but this is probably something that might be more effective coming from Wikimedians in Residence. I wish we had one at the British Museum, and I have tried contacting people there who curate various parts of the museum about events we have run in the past, with no luck. I may have another go at tryng to find a contact in their communications department. In terms of GLAM journals, also I think that this is something that might be more effective from Wikimedians in Residence, and I can tell you that having tried for the past month to pitch articles to various news and magazine outlets about Wikipedia's 18th birthday, that it is pretty hard and time consuming to do press outreach. GLAM journals may be a different kettle of fish, however, and I would be happy to listen to suggestions about journals which anyone thinks we should be contacting.

I think that we will have an opportunity later this year when the Structured Data on Commons project concludes, and Commons becomes (hopefully) much easier to find content on. I hope to hear from the WMF if they have any plans to do comms around that event, and am always willing to listen to suggestions about how people feel we might promote this kind of important news.

Regards,

John Lubbock

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On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 14:08, geni <geniice@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 13:21, Michael Maggs <michael@maggs.name> wrote:
>
> Would certainly love them to use more images from Commons.  The main barriers seem to be:
>
> 1.  A perceived lack of legal certainty when using Commons images
>
> 2. Lack of in house legal expertise leading to an almost paranoid fear of 1.
>
> 3.  Hugely greater time and expertise needed to find, research and download Commons images, including the requirement to read, understand and accept a vast variety of complicated tags, templates and scary warnings.
>
> 4. (Sometimes) past experiences with the Wikimedia communities giving rise to concerns of bad publicity and reputational risk if they get it ‘wrong’.
>
> More effort is needed from  all of us to tackle those barriers.
>
> Michael
>


And in this case most of the images we do have are US millitary which
is not without its own issues.


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geni

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