Dear All,
I have a friend who has been the software engineer in IBM and IT marketing in Nortel and Cisco, and worked really close with Japanese Wikimedia chapter. He is interesting on how small museum/gallery improve their accessment and through digital technology and planning to visit some in his london visit.
Any suggestion or recommedation? thanks.
Zeyi
Hi Zeyi, if she or he lands at Heathrow then go to the museum at the National Archives which is very close. They were the first to use QRpedia in London I think and they have worked with WMUK releasing images as well as hosting hack days..... and they have a self appointed wiki in residense (Jo Pugh). They have also talked about releasing other works to wikisource.
I'd be pleased to help if needed and we have other examples outside London.
Roger
On 8 November 2012 13:00, zeyi zeyi.he@googlemail.com wrote:
Dear All,
I have a friend who has been the software engineer in IBM and IT marketing in Nortel and Cisco, and worked really close with Japanese Wikimedia chapter. He is interesting on how small museum/gallery improve their accessment and through digital technology and planning to visit some in his london visit.
Any suggestion or recommedation? thanks.
Zeyi
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Zeyi,
From my perspective, the best person to visit would be Andrew Gray at the
British Library. He's the official Wikipedian in Residence there and is, frankly, excellent. He might have time for coffee and a chat - likewise, your engineer friend could visit the UK Chapter office in central London, next to Old Street station, and have a chat with the staff.
Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992
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On 8 November 2012 13:37, Roger Bamkin victuallers@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Zeyi, if she or he lands at Heathrow then go to the museum at the National Archives which is very close. They were the first to use QRpedia in London I think and they have worked with WMUK releasing images as well as hosting hack days..... and they have a self appointed wiki in residense (Jo Pugh). They have also talked about releasing other works to wikisource.
I'd be pleased to help if needed and we have other examples outside London.
Roger
On 8 November 2012 13:00, zeyi zeyi.he@googlemail.com wrote:
Dear All,
I have a friend who has been the software engineer in IBM and IT marketing in Nortel and Cisco, and worked really close with Japanese Wikimedia chapter. He is interesting on how small museum/gallery improve their accessment and through digital technology and planning to visit some in his london visit.
Any suggestion or recommedation? thanks.
Zeyi
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I am delighted by the vote of confidence, but I don't think I can fairly call the BL "small" by any use of the word ;-) I haven't seen our current exhibition yet (only opened yesterday, and I was out of town) but I don't think it has a significant digital component, unlike the previous one.
Definitely agree on visiting TNA at Kew, but note that Jo is now in York a lot of the time.
Zeyi - do you know when your friend is going to be around?
- Andrew.
On Thursday, 8 November 2012, Richard Symonds wrote:
Zeyi,
From my perspective, the best person to visit would be Andrew Gray at the British Library. He's the official Wikipedian in Residence there and is, frankly, excellent. He might have time for coffee and a chat - likewise, your engineer friend could visit the UK Chapter office in central London, next to Old Street station, and have a chat with the staff.
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.*
On 8 November 2012 13:37, Roger Bamkin <victuallers@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'victuallers@gmail.com');>
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Hi Zeyi, if she or he lands at Heathrow then go to the museum at the National Archives which is very close. They were the first to use QRpedia in London I think and they have worked with WMUK releasing images as well as hosting hack days..... and they have a self appointed wiki in residense (Jo Pugh). They have also talked about releasing other works to wikisource.
I'd be pleased to help if needed and we have other examples outside London.
Roger
On 8 November 2012 13:00, zeyi <zeyi.he@googlemail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'zeyi.he@googlemail.com');>
wrote:
Dear All,
I have a friend who has been the software engineer in IBM and IT marketing in Nortel and Cisco, and worked really close with Japanese Wikimedia chapter. He is interesting on how small museum/gallery improve their accessment and through digital technology and planning to visit some in his london visit.
Any suggestion or recommedation? thanks.
Zeyi
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On 8 November 2012 13:00, zeyi zeyi.he@googlemail.com wrote:
Dear All,
I have a friend who has been the software engineer in IBM and IT marketing in Nortel and Cisco, and worked really close with Japanese Wikimedia chapter. He is interesting on how small museum/gallery improve their accessment and through digital technology and planning to visit some in his london visit.
Any suggestion or recommedation? thanks.
The problem is the word small. Obviously I don't know much about london's small museums but the various small ones I've seen around the UK tend not to have much in the the way of a digital presence often because they simply don't have the money.
There's also the problem of what counts as small. Whats the cutoff? Large regional like Norwich Castle (which incidentally is an excellent museum)? Midsize regional like The Herbert? Small regional like ashby de la zouch museum?
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