I was talking earlier to the National Maritime Museum about organising an editathon. They wanted to see what use we thought we could make of the material in the archive collection, and whether Wikipedians would be up for coming and making use of it. I am anticipating that this could prove very popular, but if any of you are naval/maritime/biography/astronomy editors, it would be really handy to have some specific examples of things we might do to build the case for this event taking place. (And to answer the most obvious question, we're currently discussing how much latitude we'd have to digitise things there and then.)
Their archive catalogue is available here: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/archive.html#!asearch - obviously we would have access to the museum and its library as well.
Regards,
Chris
Chris,
Getting access to things like record FLI/11 would help immensily with articles like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_(cat) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_%28cat%29
Record 'CUR' would help fill in huge blanks at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishery_Protection_Squadron
Even things like LAD/11/45 would help with the article on Portsmouth.
To be honest, I'd like it very much if we could have access to the documents on a certain ship or person (for example).
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On 28 March 2012 21:55, Chris Keating chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com wrote:
I was talking earlier to the National Maritime Museum about organising an editathon. They wanted to see what use we thought we could make of the material in the archive collection, and whether Wikipedians would be up for coming and making use of it. I am anticipating that this could prove very popular, but if any of you are naval/maritime/biography/astronomy editors, it would be really handy to have some specific examples of things we might do to build the case for this event taking place. (And to answer the most obvious question, we're currently discussing how much latitude we'd have to digitise things there and then.)
Their archive catalogue is available here: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/archive.html#!asearch%C2%A0- obviously we would have access to the museum and its library as well.
Regards,
Chris
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I think they have a pretty complete set of William Frederick Mitchell images which means colour coverage of a lot of british victorian warships. Beyond that there is the primary source issues and I can't find much on flat-iron/Rendel gunboats.
From an astronomy point of view, I'm very interested in this collaboration.
I'm not sure about latitude, but there's a very interesting topic on longitude that could be worked on, namely John Harrison's clocks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison
Decent pictures/illustrations of all of his clocks (particularly historic images, especially related to the restoration of his clorks) would be fantastic (we currently only have recent, rather low resolution images of H1, H4 and H5). Historical information and imagery that would tell the story behind his clocks would be absolutely amazing.
... and that's just the start. Any and every topic of content related to the Greenwich Observatory would absolutely amazing to be released on Wikipedia.
Thanks, Mike
On 10 Apr 2012, at 21:52, geni wrote:
On 28 March 2012 21:55, Chris Keating chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com wrote:
I was talking earlier to the National Maritime Museum about organising an editathon. They wanted to see what use we thought we could make of the material in the archive collection, and whether Wikipedians would be up for coming and making use of it. I am anticipating that this could prove very popular, but if any of you are naval/maritime/biography/astronomy editors, it would be really handy to have some specific examples of things we might do to build the case for this event taking place. (And to answer the most obvious question, we're currently discussing how much latitude we'd have to digitise things there and then.)
Their archive catalogue is available here: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/archive.html#!asearch - obviously we would have access to the museum and its library as well.
Regards,
Chris
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I think they have a pretty complete set of William Frederick Mitchell images which means colour coverage of a lot of british victorian warships. Beyond that there is the primary source issues and I can't find much on flat-iron/Rendel gunboats.
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