Hi all,
I'm currently working on fixing up some of the details for an event we have running later in October with the International Dunhuang Project, an international group working with a large collection of manuscripts and artefacts from the eastern end of the Silk Road.
http://idp.bl.uk/ & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Dunhuang_Project
The aim is to work on content related to the broad context of Central Asian/Silk Road history and archaeology, using the resources and expertise of the group to develop articles on topics such as:
* major archaeological sites in the region * history of the regions and periods covered * key archaeologists, explorers, and scholars * related ancient languages, art, and culture
A number of IDP staff in the BL are commited to working on this over several days, and we're also making arrangements for some groups of postgraduate students in related fields to get involved. It'll run over four days at the British Library in London - 23rd to 26th October - and Wikimedians who'd like to get involved are welcome to come on any of the days. It will be inside the staff areas at the library, so we *will* be able to have reference books available, which has often been a problem in the past with these events!
If you're interested, please get in touch or sign up on the wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BL/IDP - and please do forward this to anyone else who might be interested. IDP is a multinational group, and we're keen to make sure some of this extends beyond the English Wikipedia.
Hope to see some of you there!
Minor request, can someone work on the Silk Road article itself where there's been a mess/conflict over the marine aspects of the Silk Road? I was partially to blame for it but never was able to fix it. Thanks Doug
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
Hi all,
I'm currently working on fixing up some of the details for an event we have running later in October with the International Dunhuang Project, an international group working with a large collection of manuscripts and artefacts from the eastern end of the Silk Road.
http://idp.bl.uk/ & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Dunhuang_Project
The aim is to work on content related to the broad context of Central Asian/Silk Road history and archaeology, using the resources and expertise of the group to develop articles on topics such as:
- major archaeological sites in the region
- history of the regions and periods covered
- key archaeologists, explorers, and scholars
- related ancient languages, art, and culture
A number of IDP staff in the BL are commited to working on this over several days, and we're also making arrangements for some groups of postgraduate students in related fields to get involved. It'll run over four days at the British Library in London - 23rd to 26th October
- and Wikimedians who'd like to get involved are welcome to come on
any of the days. It will be inside the staff areas at the library, so we *will* be able to have reference books available, which has often been a problem in the past with these events!
If you're interested, please get in touch or sign up on the wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BL/IDP - and please do forward this to anyone else who might be interested. IDP is a multinational group, and we're keen to make sure some of this extends beyond the English Wikipedia.
Hope to see some of you there!
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- Andrew Gray Wikipedian in Residence, British Library andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
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