[Foundation-l] National library of Serbia and Wikimedian projects: call for ideas

[Milos Rancic]

Thanks for the input. I think that we will go to meet director in the
week starting with October 22. And, yes, I realized that the good idea
is to talk about their possibilities for the beginning.

I think that we will talk with them about their process of
digitalization, firstly. However, there are a lot of other things to
see, talk, do... I'll inform the list after the meeting.

On 10/13/07, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/9/07, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have a good relations with Sreten Ugricic, director of National
> > Library of Serbia [1]. So, we are able to make a lot of things there.
> >
> > However, I realized that possibilities for cooperation with the
> > library are much bigger then possibilities of Wikimedian community in
> > Belgrade. Between 5 and 10 Wikimedians and CC-ians who are willing to
> > work on that are enough just for very small cooperation projects.
> >
> > So, there are two major questions:
> >
> > - What are your ideas for cooperation?
> > - Do you have ideas how to help?
>
>
> Milos,
>
> I don't have any specially good ideas regarding how to collaborate with the
> National Library of Serbia -- it depends a bit on what they are interested
> in, what their technical resources are, and whether they are interested in
> providing content to us or perhaps somehow using Wikimedia content, or both.
> The people who work on Commons may have good ideas.
>
> In general though I want to put in a vote of support for possible
> collaboration with national libraries; they are a fabulous and often little
> recognized resource outside of their home countries. I know Wikimedia has
> had interactions with such libraries in the past; a few people went to talk
> with the Library of Congress last year (did anything happen with that? Any
> tasks waiting to be done?), and in 2005 we had a talk from and a fabulous
> tour of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek in Frankfurt. There are lots of
> smaller countries with libraries and archives that are eager to share their
> resources with the world as well, though (I had an interesting experience
> touring libraries in various countries in Eastern Europe a couple years ago;
> they seemed culture-rich but often technology-poor).
>
> BTW, on this note I'd like to recommend this site:
> http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/ as a fun catalog for things in various
> European national libraries. Incomplete, but getting better... the virtual
> keyboard is especially awesome. And, they include a link to search Wikipedia
> in their "link to other services" for each item :)
>
> -- phoebe
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