[Foundation-l] Announcing our GLAM fellow, Liam Wyatt

[Arun Ramarathnam]

Congratulations Liam!

regards
Arun

Bangalore, India


On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:06 AM, Daniel Phelps <dphelps at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Following in quick succession from the recent announcements of fellowships
> for both Achal Prabhala and Lennart Guldbransson I am pleased to announce
> our sixth fellow, Liam Wyatt, based in Sydney. During this one year project
> Liam will be working to build the capacity of the Wikimedia community to
> undertake partnerships with cultural institutions - known as GLAMs
> [Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums] a term he popularized.
>
>
> Liam has been a board member of the Australian Wikimedia chapter and was a
> longtime panelist on the Wikipedia Weekly podcast. He is a Wikipedia
> historian, having won the university medal for his 2008 thesis ‘the academic
> lineage of Wikipedia’. The focus of his Wikipedia work for the last two
> years has been the GLAM sector - he was the convener of the GLAM-WIKI
> conferences in Canberra and London and last July became the world’s first
> “Wikipedian in Residence” at the British Museum (previous blog entry).
>
> Several different types of collaboration with the cultural sector have been
> successfully run with institutions across the world over the last few years
> - including multimedia content donations, “backstage pass” tours,
> residencies, and editing and photography events. Not only do these increase
> the quality and reliability of Wikipedia but also meet the goals of the GLAM
> institutions to share their expertise with a wide audience - especially for
> those that do not have a web presences of their own.
>
> The priorities for Liam’s fellowship include: building communication
> channels so the existing community of Wikimedians working with GLAMs can
> better share their knowledge; applying what we have learned with the
> university “campus ambassador” system to create a global network of
> Wikimedia GLAM ambassadors; creating clear how-to documentation for common
> GLAM project with real-wolrd case studies to match; and improving the
> metrics tools available to measure the usage of GLAM content.
>
> <Photo of Liam:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2009_-_Liam_Wyatt.jpg>
>
> If you would like to join in any aspect of the cultural partnerships
> initiative please visit the project pages at glamwiki.org/. If you
> represent a cultural institution and want to engage in a project please
> write to glam at wikimedia.org.
>
> Best,
> -Daniel Phelps
> Human Resources Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
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