[Wikimediauk-l] Digital Sustainability for Historians - event in London where it would be nice to have a scholar present with a Wikimedia theme to their offering

Would anyone on this list be interested in applying for this event? They are offering a £350 honorarium, and if any Wikimedian wins I will be happy to give what support I can. I think that points 1, 4 and 5 would be ones where Wikimedia can be the solution or at least a large part of it. Point 2 is something we should steer away from and point 3 is something we can indirectly address - sharing images on Wikimedia commons, and using a Wikimedia Commons category as your master category for related images means that you don't have the cost of maintaining a website and web presence in the future. Regards Jonathan Cardy GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) Organiser/Trefnydd GLAM (Galeriau, Llyfrgelloedd, Archifdai a llawer Mwy!) Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0990 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. Press Enter to send your message. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mia <mia.ridge(a)gmail.com> Date: 15 September 2013 12:09 Subject: Applications open for Five Solutions: Digital Sustainability for Historians To: MCG(a)jiscmail.ac.uk Please excuse the cross-post, but digital sustainability is critical for museums and archaeology and I suspect each list has people with valuable contributions to make... Cheers, Mia Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 08:21:40 +0100 From: Adam Crymble <adam.crymble(a)gmail.com> Subject: cfp: sustainability for history Applications open for Five Solutions: Digital Sustainability for Historians Five Solutions to What? Historical scholarship is increasingly digital; and yet we do not have an agreed form of best practices for ensuring that digital scholarship lasts. *Five Solutions* is looking for five scholars able to outline a solution to the issues of sustainability now facing historians. This one day workshop asks participants to give a 15 http://www.blogger.com/null minute presentation outlining practical solutions to one of five challenges, with the resources and expertise of an ordinary working historian in mind. These presentations will form the basis for a one day workshop on practical strategies for digital sustainability. The presentations can be based on your own experience and ideas, or can be taken on as a research project. We will work with all participants to ensure that the final presentations are both technically workable and illustrated with the most appropriate datasets. Accepted participants will each receive a *£350 honorarium.** The Five Themes The following five themes are designed to get you started, but if you have other ideas, we’d love to hear about it. Each theme should be approached with the ordinary working historian in mind. 1. Preserving research data for the future 2. Curating an enduring professional online persona 3. Paying project costs after the money runs out 4. Capturing and documenting the expertise of temporary staff 5. Strategies for working together on larger projects Who Should Apply? We’re looking for people with passion. Scholars old or young, university students of any level, librarians, archivists, developers, designers, system administrators, or anyone who considers themselves a historian at heart. No specific qualifications or prior experience required - just an interest in helping academia find solutions to organizational and technological challenges facing the sustainability of our digital projects. What do I have to do? Figure out a solution, of course! Once you’ve come up with your solution, you’ll share your work in two ways: 1. A 15-minute presentation of your solution at a one-day conference in London, UK on the *28th of November 2013 *at the Institute of Historical Research. 2. A 1500-2000 word peer-reviewed tutorial outlining your solution to be published in the *spring of 2014* in the *Programming Historian 2 *and distributed as part of ‘IHR Digital’. All tutorials will be peer-reviewed and released under a Creative Commons CC-BY license. Participants will have the full support of an editor at the *Programming Historian 2* who will provide guidance for writing an effective, practical tutorial. Evidence of previous work with technical writing or a willingness to learn, as well as a strong command of the English language are a bonus. How do I apply? By *8 October 2013* send a two-page C.V. and a brief email to adam.crymble(a)kcl.ac.uk (subject line: Five Solutions) addressing the following questions: 1. What theme would you like to tackle? (Use one of our suggestions or come up with your own.) 2. Give us an idea of how you plan to solve this issue, or where you intend to look for a solution (max 200 words) 3. What skills or experiences make you the ideal person for the task? We apologize in advance, but we are limited to five scholars. * Our funding restrictions allow honorariums for UK-based participants only, though we are happy to receive applications from those abroad who have access to their own travel funding and who would like to participate. *Supported by:* * The Software Sustainability Institute * AHRC Theme Leader Fellowship for its Digital Transformations Theme * The Institute of Historical Research * The Programming Historian Adam Crymble adam.crymble(a)kcl.ac.uk -------------------------------------------- http://openobjects.org.uk/ http://twitter.com/mia_out I mostly use this address for list mail and don't check it daily; use my open.ac.uk address for personal email **************************************************************** 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/ ****************************************************************