This document discusses Bristol & Wikipedia and Wikimedia UK's efforts to promote collaboration between cultural institutions and Wikipedia. Some key points:
- Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of Wikimedia volunteers that promotes free content and seeks volunteers.
- Several projects have involved sharing content from cultural institutions on Wikipedia, such as images from museums being uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.
- QR codes have been used at some institutions to provide mobile access to additional information about museum exhibits from Wikipedia pages.
- Challenges have been conducted, such as the Wright Challenge where over 600 pages were created about Derby Museum in under 6 weeks.
- Outreach to local communities in Bristol is aimed at getting more local content contributed
- The document discusses Wikipedia and its Wikimedia sister projects, noting that Wikipedia receives hundreds of millions of visitors each month, making it one of the top 10 most visited websites globally.
- It highlights opportunities for the city of Bristol to contribute content like images, videos, and documents about its history and attractions to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, which could help increase tourism by exposing more people internationally to Bristol.
- The speaker challenges Bristol to coordinate a city-wide effort to contribute content in celebration and recognition of Wikipedia's 10th anniversary, which would establish the city as pioneers in the innovative use of social media.
The document discusses best practices for collaboration between museums and Wikipedia. It outlines challenges such as copyright issues and concerns about quality and control. However, it emphasizes that partnerships between experts and volunteers can exponentially increase quality information. Specific successful collaborations are highlighted, like Wikipedians-in-residence and editing contests. Museums are encouraged to engage students and share content under Creative Commons to overcome challenges and spread knowledge.
The minutes from the ALISS AGM on July 1st are summarized. Sally Patalong was re-elected as chair. The committee and finances were reported on. Events from the past year were recapped, including conferences, visits, and workshops. Membership increased slightly from 122 to 130 members. Upcoming activities include a workshop on crowd sourcing and library visits.
This document provides a summary of Wikipedia-related events that took place from 2010 to early 2011, including conferences held at the British Museum and University of Bristol on wikis in cultural institutions and the 10th anniversary of Wikipedia. It also mentions a multilingual QR code reader, Wikipedia's birthday celebrated in London, and photos of events licensed under various Creative Commons licenses.
Bloomfield large scale-events-tartu2012Gilles Grenot
This document discusses strategies for developing large, multi-stakeholder science engagement programmes on the natural world. It advocates using convening power to bring together diverse partners around shared interests and objectives. The goals are to inspire sustained public engagement with nature through collective reach, legacy outcomes, and positioning statements supported by empirical evidence. Examples provided include Darwin200 in 2009 and International Year of Biodiversity in 2010, which engaged over 450 partners in 1300 events reaching over 420 million people. Key lessons focus on the need for central coordination, independent monitoring, and addressing changing societal perspectives.
This document summarizes a presentation about GLAM-Wiki, which aims to provide free encyclopedia access globally in local languages. It notes Wikipedia receives over 400 million monthly users and has over 20 million articles across 250 editions with no advertisements. It encourages cultural institutions to partner with Wikipedia by sharing their expertise and programs to improve user experience and fill content gaps. Specific institutions partnering with Wikipedia are listed, and seven actions cultural institutions can take immediately to engage with Wikipedia are outlined.
The document discusses strategies for new media and community engagement on a limited budget. It encourages telling stories, listening to community interests, and using various online tools like blogging, social media, podcasting and video to engage local audiences. Specific free and low-cost platforms are mentioned for activities like blogging, microblogging, photosharing, and audio editing. Examples of successful online projects are provided.
This document discusses Bristol & Wikipedia and Wikimedia UK's efforts to promote collaboration between cultural institutions and Wikipedia. Some key points:
- Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of Wikimedia volunteers that promotes free content and seeks volunteers.
- Several projects have involved sharing content from cultural institutions on Wikipedia, such as images from museums being uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.
- QR codes have been used at some institutions to provide mobile access to additional information about museum exhibits from Wikipedia pages.
- Challenges have been conducted, such as the Wright Challenge where over 600 pages were created about Derby Museum in under 6 weeks.
- Outreach to local communities in Bristol is aimed at getting more local content contributed
- The document discusses Wikipedia and its Wikimedia sister projects, noting that Wikipedia receives hundreds of millions of visitors each month, making it one of the top 10 most visited websites globally.
- It highlights opportunities for the city of Bristol to contribute content like images, videos, and documents about its history and attractions to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, which could help increase tourism by exposing more people internationally to Bristol.
- The speaker challenges Bristol to coordinate a city-wide effort to contribute content in celebration and recognition of Wikipedia's 10th anniversary, which would establish the city as pioneers in the innovative use of social media.
The document discusses best practices for collaboration between museums and Wikipedia. It outlines challenges such as copyright issues and concerns about quality and control. However, it emphasizes that partnerships between experts and volunteers can exponentially increase quality information. Specific successful collaborations are highlighted, like Wikipedians-in-residence and editing contests. Museums are encouraged to engage students and share content under Creative Commons to overcome challenges and spread knowledge.
The minutes from the ALISS AGM on July 1st are summarized. Sally Patalong was re-elected as chair. The committee and finances were reported on. Events from the past year were recapped, including conferences, visits, and workshops. Membership increased slightly from 122 to 130 members. Upcoming activities include a workshop on crowd sourcing and library visits.
This document provides a summary of Wikipedia-related events that took place from 2010 to early 2011, including conferences held at the British Museum and University of Bristol on wikis in cultural institutions and the 10th anniversary of Wikipedia. It also mentions a multilingual QR code reader, Wikipedia's birthday celebrated in London, and photos of events licensed under various Creative Commons licenses.
Bloomfield large scale-events-tartu2012Gilles Grenot
This document discusses strategies for developing large, multi-stakeholder science engagement programmes on the natural world. It advocates using convening power to bring together diverse partners around shared interests and objectives. The goals are to inspire sustained public engagement with nature through collective reach, legacy outcomes, and positioning statements supported by empirical evidence. Examples provided include Darwin200 in 2009 and International Year of Biodiversity in 2010, which engaged over 450 partners in 1300 events reaching over 420 million people. Key lessons focus on the need for central coordination, independent monitoring, and addressing changing societal perspectives.
This document summarizes a presentation about GLAM-Wiki, which aims to provide free encyclopedia access globally in local languages. It notes Wikipedia receives over 400 million monthly users and has over 20 million articles across 250 editions with no advertisements. It encourages cultural institutions to partner with Wikipedia by sharing their expertise and programs to improve user experience and fill content gaps. Specific institutions partnering with Wikipedia are listed, and seven actions cultural institutions can take immediately to engage with Wikipedia are outlined.
The document discusses strategies for new media and community engagement on a limited budget. It encourages telling stories, listening to community interests, and using various online tools like blogging, social media, podcasting and video to engage local audiences. Specific free and low-cost platforms are mentioned for activities like blogging, microblogging, photosharing, and audio editing. Examples of successful online projects are provided.
This document discusses how wikis and other web technologies can benefit museums by enabling collaboration. It provides background on how collaboration has historically been important for humans and evolved through technologies like WELL, virtual communities, and Web 2.0 features. As an example, it outlines an early virtual library case study from the 1990s where Tim Berners-Lee and others directly edited static HTML pages to collaboratively index the developing web.
This document discusses a research project to develop a user-generated Canadian music wiki in partnership with the CBC and a journalism school. The wiki aims to harness collective intelligence to create an online resource about Canadian music produced collaboratively using wiki software. The document provides context about the CBC's online strategy and choice of CBC Radio 3 as a partner due to its mandate to support Canadian culture and use of social media. It outlines the development process including investigating wiki platforms, designing collaborative features, and developing community outreach. Challenges discussed include balancing openness with editorial oversight, attracting a critical mass of contributors, and funding innovation during budget cuts. The goal is to innovate at the edges while minimizing financial costs and editorial risks.
NUI Galway's Archives Engagement Strategy aims to increase advocacy, support, and engagement with the university's archives collection. Key aspects of the strategy include establishing an Archives Strategy Committee for oversight, promoting collections through marketing and events, developing partnerships across campus and with cultural institutions, prioritizing digitization and online access, and strengthening integration of archives into teaching and research programs. The strategy has helped attract important collections and increased usage, publications, exhibitions, and other ways of realizing the value of the archives.
This document discusses Wiki projects and collaborations between Wiki projects and cultural heritage institutions (GLAMs) like libraries, archives, and museums around the world. It provides an overview of Wiki projects' mission to provide free knowledge to everyone. It describes outreach projects to strengthen smaller language Wikipedias and engage experts in academia and cultural institutions. Finally, it highlights some successful collaborations between GLAMs and Wiki projects in different countries and discusses ongoing efforts in Israel to engage more cultural institutions in Wiki projects.
Wikipedia takes angkor ppt & demo - final 20121003Kounila Keo
The document provides information about a Wikimedia Commons workshop held in Siem Reap, Cambodia on November 3, 2012. It introduces Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation, and their goals of sharing free knowledge worldwide. It then outlines the agenda for the workshop, which includes demonstrations of uploading photos and other media to Wikimedia Commons to improve article content about Angkor Wat and other temples in the Siem Reap area on the English and Khmer Wikipedia.
30000 African contributions to the Wikimedia projects (WikiAfrica reached 201...Iolanda Pensa
The document discusses WikiAfrica, a project aimed at increasing African content on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. It provides statistics on contributions from various African institutions between 2011-2012, including 459 articles and 2,993 images uploaded. It also lists numerous African cultural institutions that have partnered with WikiAfrica to contribute content and support the initiative.
Wikipedia in the library : Liam Wyatt's presentation for #risg2012PublicLibraryServices
Wikipedia can serve as a library's volunteer e-program by allowing patrons to read, cite, edit, and research entries. Libraries should partner with Wikipedia as it is a top search result, has a global readership, and is freely available without ads or censorship. Case studies show libraries benefit from Wikipedia residencies where volunteers help curate entries about the library's collections.
Edit this movement: the past, present & future of WikipediaPhoebe Ayers
Wikimedia is a global non-profit organization that runs Wikipedia and other wiki-based projects in over 280 languages. It has over 25 million articles on Wikipedia contributed by over 100,000 active editors from around the world. Wikimedia envisions a world where everyone can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. The future of Wikimedia focuses on continuing to grow contributions from more gender and geographic diversity while ensuring knowledge remains freely available for all.
This document summarizes a joint meeting between Eduserv and CETIS to discuss the use of Second Life in education. The aims of the meeting were to showcase Eduserv's Second Life projects, explore potential issues like sustainability and interoperability, and discuss how funding bodies can best support virtual world communities. The agenda included presentations on using Second Life for subjects like theater, computer modeling, and learning support, as well as a discussion session.
Import-Export of Contemporary African art: The Dakar Biennale and Wikipedia a...Iolanda Pensa
Import-Export of Contemporary African art: The Dakar Biennale and Wikipedia as systems of knowledge distribution and sharing. Presentation at INHA Paris, 13/11/2013. Invitation by Maureen Murphy. Séminaire Histoire des arts de l’Afrique: L’institutionnalisation de l’histoire de l’art en tant que discipline, est indissociable de la constitution d’un récit national, voire nationaliste. Ce séminaire interrogera les modalités d’ouverture de ce champ aux arts dits « autres », en portant une attention particulière aux arts d’Afrique. La question du primitivisme et de l’art brut sera abordée, de même que l’ouverture plus récente aux arts contemporains.
Creative Commons for New Zealand Schools (Sept 2013)MattMcGregor
This presentation makes the case for New Zealand educators to use Creative Commons licences to share their teaching resources. After introducing copyright and the Creative Commons licences, the presentation outlines how to implement a Creative Commons policy at your school.
The document discusses several issues with the current system of copyright and access to knowledge. It notes that most publicly funded research cannot be easily accessed or reused by the public. Libraries are spending large amounts on journal subscriptions. Younger educators often have to build teaching resources from scratch due to a lack of access. The potential of the internet to more widely share and build upon knowledge is not being fully realized due to restrictive copyright laws. The document advocates for more open licensing of publicly funded work, including research, educational resources, and cultural heritage materials, using Creative Commons licenses to expand access to knowledge for the public and support continued knowledge creation.
Wikipedia and Africa, Orange FoundationIolanda Pensa
Afrique et Wikipédia: Développer des contenus numériques en Afrique avec Wikipédia. Les matinales numériques de la Fondation Orange, Paris, 24/10/2012.
The document discusses Wikimedia, MediaWiki, and the use of wikis in education. It provides an overview of Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation. It also summarizes key features of MediaWiki software, types of wikis, and advantages and challenges of using wikis in educational contexts. Examples of wikis being used in classrooms and for student collaborations are mentioned.
Salvador Dali was a famous surrealist artist known for his bizarre and thought-provoking works. His paintings often featured strange images that seemed illogical but were intended to make viewers think. Dali explored many unusual themes and techniques in his art that challenged conventional perceptions of reality.
This document discusses how wikis and other web technologies can benefit museums by enabling collaboration. It provides background on how collaboration has historically been important for humans and evolved through technologies like WELL, virtual communities, and Web 2.0 features. As an example, it outlines an early virtual library case study from the 1990s where Tim Berners-Lee and others directly edited static HTML pages to collaboratively index the developing web.
This document discusses a research project to develop a user-generated Canadian music wiki in partnership with the CBC and a journalism school. The wiki aims to harness collective intelligence to create an online resource about Canadian music produced collaboratively using wiki software. The document provides context about the CBC's online strategy and choice of CBC Radio 3 as a partner due to its mandate to support Canadian culture and use of social media. It outlines the development process including investigating wiki platforms, designing collaborative features, and developing community outreach. Challenges discussed include balancing openness with editorial oversight, attracting a critical mass of contributors, and funding innovation during budget cuts. The goal is to innovate at the edges while minimizing financial costs and editorial risks.
NUI Galway's Archives Engagement Strategy aims to increase advocacy, support, and engagement with the university's archives collection. Key aspects of the strategy include establishing an Archives Strategy Committee for oversight, promoting collections through marketing and events, developing partnerships across campus and with cultural institutions, prioritizing digitization and online access, and strengthening integration of archives into teaching and research programs. The strategy has helped attract important collections and increased usage, publications, exhibitions, and other ways of realizing the value of the archives.
This document discusses Wiki projects and collaborations between Wiki projects and cultural heritage institutions (GLAMs) like libraries, archives, and museums around the world. It provides an overview of Wiki projects' mission to provide free knowledge to everyone. It describes outreach projects to strengthen smaller language Wikipedias and engage experts in academia and cultural institutions. Finally, it highlights some successful collaborations between GLAMs and Wiki projects in different countries and discusses ongoing efforts in Israel to engage more cultural institutions in Wiki projects.
Wikipedia takes angkor ppt & demo - final 20121003Kounila Keo
The document provides information about a Wikimedia Commons workshop held in Siem Reap, Cambodia on November 3, 2012. It introduces Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation, and their goals of sharing free knowledge worldwide. It then outlines the agenda for the workshop, which includes demonstrations of uploading photos and other media to Wikimedia Commons to improve article content about Angkor Wat and other temples in the Siem Reap area on the English and Khmer Wikipedia.
30000 African contributions to the Wikimedia projects (WikiAfrica reached 201...Iolanda Pensa
The document discusses WikiAfrica, a project aimed at increasing African content on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. It provides statistics on contributions from various African institutions between 2011-2012, including 459 articles and 2,993 images uploaded. It also lists numerous African cultural institutions that have partnered with WikiAfrica to contribute content and support the initiative.
Wikipedia in the library : Liam Wyatt's presentation for #risg2012PublicLibraryServices
Wikipedia can serve as a library's volunteer e-program by allowing patrons to read, cite, edit, and research entries. Libraries should partner with Wikipedia as it is a top search result, has a global readership, and is freely available without ads or censorship. Case studies show libraries benefit from Wikipedia residencies where volunteers help curate entries about the library's collections.
Edit this movement: the past, present & future of WikipediaPhoebe Ayers
Wikimedia is a global non-profit organization that runs Wikipedia and other wiki-based projects in over 280 languages. It has over 25 million articles on Wikipedia contributed by over 100,000 active editors from around the world. Wikimedia envisions a world where everyone can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. The future of Wikimedia focuses on continuing to grow contributions from more gender and geographic diversity while ensuring knowledge remains freely available for all.
This document summarizes a joint meeting between Eduserv and CETIS to discuss the use of Second Life in education. The aims of the meeting were to showcase Eduserv's Second Life projects, explore potential issues like sustainability and interoperability, and discuss how funding bodies can best support virtual world communities. The agenda included presentations on using Second Life for subjects like theater, computer modeling, and learning support, as well as a discussion session.
Import-Export of Contemporary African art: The Dakar Biennale and Wikipedia a...Iolanda Pensa
Import-Export of Contemporary African art: The Dakar Biennale and Wikipedia as systems of knowledge distribution and sharing. Presentation at INHA Paris, 13/11/2013. Invitation by Maureen Murphy. Séminaire Histoire des arts de l’Afrique: L’institutionnalisation de l’histoire de l’art en tant que discipline, est indissociable de la constitution d’un récit national, voire nationaliste. Ce séminaire interrogera les modalités d’ouverture de ce champ aux arts dits « autres », en portant une attention particulière aux arts d’Afrique. La question du primitivisme et de l’art brut sera abordée, de même que l’ouverture plus récente aux arts contemporains.
Creative Commons for New Zealand Schools (Sept 2013)MattMcGregor
This presentation makes the case for New Zealand educators to use Creative Commons licences to share their teaching resources. After introducing copyright and the Creative Commons licences, the presentation outlines how to implement a Creative Commons policy at your school.
The document discusses several issues with the current system of copyright and access to knowledge. It notes that most publicly funded research cannot be easily accessed or reused by the public. Libraries are spending large amounts on journal subscriptions. Younger educators often have to build teaching resources from scratch due to a lack of access. The potential of the internet to more widely share and build upon knowledge is not being fully realized due to restrictive copyright laws. The document advocates for more open licensing of publicly funded work, including research, educational resources, and cultural heritage materials, using Creative Commons licenses to expand access to knowledge for the public and support continued knowledge creation.
Wikipedia and Africa, Orange FoundationIolanda Pensa
Afrique et Wikipédia: Développer des contenus numériques en Afrique avec Wikipédia. Les matinales numériques de la Fondation Orange, Paris, 24/10/2012.
The document discusses Wikimedia, MediaWiki, and the use of wikis in education. It provides an overview of Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation. It also summarizes key features of MediaWiki software, types of wikis, and advantages and challenges of using wikis in educational contexts. Examples of wikis being used in classrooms and for student collaborations are mentioned.
Salvador Dali was a famous surrealist artist known for his bizarre and thought-provoking works. His paintings often featured strange images that seemed illogical but were intended to make viewers think. Dali explored many unusual themes and techniques in his art that challenged conventional perceptions of reality.
O documento discute um "alfabeto emocional" estudado por um Dr. Juan Hitzig, no qual certas condutas como serenidade, silêncio e sabedoria ("condutas S") promovem a secreção de serotonina e levam a atitudes positivas, enquanto condutas como ressentimento, raiva e rancor ("condutas R") facilitam a secreção de cortisol e levam a atitudes negativas. Aprender este alfabeto emocional pode nos levar a viver mais tempo e de maneira saudável, já que o cort
Wairua is a fundamental aspect of life and being for Māori. It provides a connection between the physical and spiritual realms. Wairua exists within all people, lands, words, generations and ancestors. It gives Māori a sense of identity, strength and balance. Expressions of wairua can be seen through te reo, waiata, whakapapa and other cultural practices. Maintaining connections to wairua, whenua, tikanga and each other is important for Māori wellbeing.
Hillary Clinton may face questions about her husband's financial ties if nominated as Secretary of State. Five Blackwater guards were indicted for killing 17 Iraqis in 2007. The UN Secretary-General expressed growing frustration with Myanmar's ruling generals. Hundreds of exiled Tibetans met with the Dalai Lama to discuss China. Seven suspected pirates were handed over to Yemeni authorities after being captured in the Gulf of Aden. Mexican drug cartels are gaining influence in Guatemala. GM and Chrysler were close to a federal aid deal to avoid bankruptcy through March. Research found differences in brain processing between children from low- and high-income families. The Dark Knight film was getting a US re-release to push past $
This document discusses Citrix NetScaler and its features for application networking, delivery, and load balancing. It describes NetScaler's capabilities in areas like acceleration, security, availability, and offloading. It also provides examples of how NetScaler can optimize traffic and TCP connections between clients, servers, and applications to improve performance.
This document discusses Citrix XenDesktop and its components. XenDesktop provides virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) as a service by hosting desktops and applications on centralized servers and delivering them to users on any device. It addresses issues like security, manageability and productivity through features such as profile management, streaming, and support for various hypervisors and devices. The document also outlines XenDesktop licensing options and new features in version 3 like HDX plug-and-play USB and smart card support.
The document discusses the relationship between Wikipedia and the city of Bristol. It notes that Wikimedia UK is the national chapter of Wikimedia volunteers in the UK. It then provides statistics on page view counts for various UK city Wikipedia pages, suggesting Bristol could aim to increase engagement. The document proposes several ideas for how Bristol could partner with Wikipedia, such as hosting edit-a-thons, adding content from local archives and museums, encouraging contributions from underrepresented ethnic groups and languages, and involving schools and students in projects.
Increasing reach and access through WikimediaCILIP
Lucy Crompton-Reid discussed increasing reach and access through Wikimedia. She is the Chief Executive of Wikimedia UK, the national chapter for the global Wikimedia movement. She highlighted several libraries' page views on Wikimedia sites, ranging from 60 million for Bodleian to 387 million for Wellcome Library. She described Wikimedia residency programs at the National Library of Wales and Bodleian Libraries, focusing on opening diverse content, events, and advocacy.
Transforming museums with technology - Transforming a city from inside a museumRoger Bamkin
The TEDx talk on 8th September at Bristol M Shed. Daringly we spoke about the M Shed's on-line presense. They have spent millions transforming the museum from its former name of the Bristol Industrial Museum. Sadly on Wikipedia their former reincarnation looks like a better museum that they are now. How can you transform a museum? Why would you want to? Is it possible to change the on-line profile of your museum. We talk here about the work that Wikimedia UK have done with Derby Museum. As a result they have 1200 articles on their museum and are probable seen as one the UKs top museums on many wikipedias.
The document discusses the partnership between The Children's Museum of Indianapolis and Wikimedia to improve Wikipedia articles related to the museum. It provides examples of other museums that have participated in Wikipedian in Residence programs, including the British Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and National Archives. It outlines the benefits of collaborating with Wikipedia, such as reaching wider audiences, engaging volunteers, and improving online information. Strategies discussed include hosting edit-a-thons, backstage tours, student programs, multilingual projects using QR codes, and connecting with educators. Next steps mentioned are supporting the GLAM-Wiki community and diversifying engagement.
Wikimedia Commons Social History Photo InitiativeDavid Milne
This is a two-part presentation made at the Museum & Gallery Services (Queensland) Networking event in December 2009. The first part outlines the rationale for the Queensland Museum contributing a small selection of high quality, copyright free social history photographs to Wikimedia as a first step towards developing a digitisation strategy. This is the first contribution made to Wikimedia by any Australian cultural heritage organisation with many mutual benefits arising. The second part demonstrates the use of NING as a social media platform for museum professionals to engage with and to share ideas.
This document summarizes how Wikimedia UK partnered with Derby Museum to transform its online presence using Wikipedia and QR codes. Volunteers wrote over 1,200 articles about the museum's exhibits in many languages. QR codes linked to these articles, allowing visitors to learn more in their own language on their phones. This global collaboration increased attention on the museum and city of Derby online, filling information gaps and putting the small regional museum on a global stage. The success suggests that cultural institutions can use free online tools and volunteer contributions to strengthen their online image and raise awareness of their city worldwide.
The social and technological challenges of augmenting the ABC’s archival coll...University of Sydney
Given the provocation that cultural institutions should be engaging in mobile platforms to provide the public with improved access to their archival collections, many institutions have been experimenting with hybrid projects. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) facilitated one experiment during 2011 to understand how it could leverage augmented reality (AR) technologies to promote public access to its archival collections. This presentation describes one ABC AR project, MyBurb. MyBurb was developed to publish ABC Australian suburban archives, while also encouraging users to contribute their personal collections to co-create an historical urban landscape. Burgess and Banks (2010) define co-creation as “the ways in which platform providers (however imperfectly) integrate user-participation into their own models of production” (2010, p. 298). Co-creation at the ABC aligns with its public service remit to foster national culture and engage the public sphere (Cunningham, 2013).
Digitisation in the UK and the JISC Content programmePaolaMarchionni
The document summarizes JISC's digitization efforts and landscape in the UK. It notes that JISC has invested over £30 million in over 100 digitization projects since 2004. These projects digitize special collections from libraries and make them openly available when possible. Challenges include copyright, long-term sustainability, and bringing scattered digital collections together. Partnerships with other institutions and the public are important for content creation and access.
Presentation made to the Welsh Government's Visit Wales facilitated Digital Tourism Business Framework Programme's Steering Group on 5th July 2012 about the MonmouthpediA innovation project and its implications for the Welsh Tourism sector's use of digital technologies, opportunities for research into Heritage and Tourism in the Welsh Creative & Digital Economy and the manner in which Wales as a bilingual nation is a natural test bed for 'QRpedia' technology which offers international reach and multi-lingual delivery of co-created and local and global community curated content.
Collaborative Communities - Cross Sectoral Library Initiatives in ScotlandCILIP Ireland
This document discusses collaborative library initiatives in Scotland across various sectors. It highlights that there are 492 public libraries, 19 higher education institution libraries, and over 2,400 school libraries in Scotland. Partnerships have been formed between these different library sectors through organizations like CILIP in Scotland to advocate for libraries and conduct staff training. Recent initiatives include a national school library strategy, innovation funding awards, and partnerships between universities and public libraries to share collections and facilities.
Connected Open Heritage - John Andersson; Executive Director, Wikimedia SverigeRCAHMW
Gwella strwythur a chwiliadwyedd gwybodaeth am dreftadaeth ddiwylliannol ddisymud ledled y byd yw nod y prosiect Treftadaeth Agored Gysylltiedig. Buom yn gweithio i gynnwys gwybodaeth wedi’i chyd-destunoli ar Wikipedia; delweddau newydd a hanesyddol ar Wikimedia Commons; a data strwythuredig ar Wikidata.
Yn ystod y cyflwyniad byddwn ni’n siarad am rai o’r heriau a’r gwersi a ddysgwyd wrth brosesu casgliad unigryw o setiau ddata o 50 o wledydd, gweithio i ryddhau setiau data newydd, darganfod ffyrdd o gadw’r casgliad yn gyfoes, a chreu methodolegau i’w gwneud hi’n bosibl i roi’r data ar Wikidata ar ffurf safonedig a strwythuredig.
Improving the structure and searchability of immovable cultural heritage information from around the world is what the Connected Open Heritage project has been trying to achieve. We have worked to include contextualized information on Wikipedia; new and historical images on Wikimedia Commons; and structured data on Wikidata.
During the presentation we will talk about some of the challenges and lessons gathered while working with processing a world-unique collection of datasets from 50 countries, working to release new datasets, finding ways to keep it up-to-date, and creating the methodologies for the data to be added to Wikidata in a standardized and structured form.
Steve Virgin gave a presentation on how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects could be further promoted and utilized in Bristol. He discussed the structure and operations of the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia UK chapter. He then outlined opportunities for Bristol residents and organizations to get involved by editing Wikipedia articles, adding images and other content, writing for Wikinews, and using Wikimedia software and resources in various ways. Virgin proposed several specific initiatives and events in Bristol to celebrate writing and share local content while engaging more of the community.
John Scally: The National Library of Scotland: A future vision for allCILIPScotland
The document summarizes a presentation given at the CILIPS Scotland Conference in Dundee on June 1, 2015 about the National Library of Scotland's future vision. It discusses the library's origins, collections of over 24 million items, legal deposit functions, digital collections, usage statistics, funding challenges, and strategic priorities for 2015-2020 which include preserving collections, increasing digital access, encouraging research, education, public engagement, and developing the library as a destination.
Presentation for Internet Librarian International Conference, London, 17th October 2017.
In Track C - Content Creativity
Session C101 - Cutting edge content
Hear how the British Library collaborates creatively with partners including Wikimedia, WordPlay, Burning Man Festival and the National Videogame Arcade, and participation in International Games Week in Libraries. Stella's talk encompasses experimentation, and making apps, games and interactive fiction using digitised collections.
Fifth British Library Labs (BL Labs) Symposium, Monday October 30, 2017.
10:05 – 11:00 Keynote ‘Open, Digital, Inclusive: Unleashing Knowledge’
Josie Fraser, Senior Technology Adviser on the National Technology Team, based in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in the UK Government.
Josie will discuss the impact the open knowledge movement has had on education and learning. Looking at the powerful role that Wikimedia UK and Wikimedians have played in bringing UK cultural institutions and their digital collections to new and wider audiences, the talk will also explore how open knowledge partnerships are driving diversity and better representation for all online. She will invite the audience to join her in exploring ideas and opportunities for the future.
Business Link Talk Gloucestershire Cricket Club What Is Your Wikipedia B...SteveVirgin
Talk for Business Link South West at Gloucestershire Cricket Club in Bristol....audience a mix of SME business people....aim to exlain how \'they\' can get involved...show potential of doing so...and get them thinking about the goals and values of what we do
Reaching People - the new National Library of Scotland Strategy 2020-2025CILIPScotland
The document outlines the National Library of Scotland's new 2020-2025 strategy to better connect with audiences through five strategic priorities: safeguarding collections, improving access, engaging audiences, supporting learning and research, and developing the organization. The strategy aims to make the library more inclusive, responsive, and relevant for current and future generations through initiatives like expanding digital access, community outreach, and partnerships.
This document provides a summary of media coverage of the global pharmaceutical industry in 2007. It analyzes coverage of major companies, issues, and executives. Key findings include bleak coverage of sector job losses, pipeline gaps, and falling profits. Coverage of CEOs focused on restructuring announcements from leaders of large companies. The generics industry and regulatory scrutiny also received significant attention. Overall, 2007 news suggested most major drug companies struggled with challenges including upcoming patent expirations and increased competition.
This document summarizes the partnership between the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Delahaye Medialink to provide a daily news digest evaluation service. The service monitors international news coverage of WFP and provides timely alerts about misreporting or factual inaccuracies. It has evolved over 12 months to now serve as both a real-time monitoring tool and historical reporting tool. The partnership helps WFP improve media coverage and address issues proactively.
Volatility Of Global Commodity Prices – A Stakeholder Mapping AnalysisSteveVirgin
This document provides a summary of a report analyzing the connections between organizations and reporters discussing the volatility of global commodity prices from January to March 2011. The report maps the relationships between organizations and publications or reporters that mentioned them. Key findings include Monsanto having the most influence based on mentions, while other influential organizations included the UN, World Bank, and FAO. Major publications and reporters that drove discussion are also identified.
Partners Commetric have a tool that finds the movers & shakers that drive a conversation on a particular topic. It means media analysis can become multi-dimensional - you find the people who influence others, so you can work with them directly in the future.
Wikipedia Seminar For Cipr October 2010SteveVirgin
This document summarizes a presentation given by Wikimedia UK on using Wikipedia as part of a public relations strategy. It discusses Wikipedia's scale and goals of supporting free knowledge. Key aspects covered include building a Wikipedia strategy by providing free basic content, understanding the "gift economy" model of open content, and addressing potential issues like correcting errors or adding content to an existing client page. Quality, industry concerns, and remembering Wikipedia is an encyclopedia were also briefly mentioned.
Better Targeted Advertising Real World ExamplesSteveVirgin
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Corporate Reputation Disasters Real World ExamplesSteveVirgin
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2) A Ryanair employee engaged in an unprofessional public argument with a blogger who found a bug on their website, worsening the situation.
3) Habitat unwittingly used hashtags related to the Iran election on Twitter, sparking outrage and forcing an apology.
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- Dell has made millions in profits from using Twitter as another customer service channel and to promote offers.
- Music streaming services like Spotify and online retailers like Netflix are seeing increasing subscriber numbers as consumers prefer convenient, streaming options over physical media like CDs or DVDs.
- Crowdfunding sites like SlicethePie allow fans to directly fund artists in exchange for
Wikimedia UK representatives Andrew Turvey and Steve Virgin presented on how businesses can utilize and contribute to Wikipedia. They discussed who Wikimedia is, the "gift economy" model of Wikipedia, the vast resources available for reuse, managing business reputation on Wikipedia, contributing content as a form of soft advertising, and using the "freemium" model with Wikipedia. They offered to help businesses further with donating content, speaking engagements, content usage guidance, and identifying available resources.
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1. As a chapter, Wikimedia UK is just beginning to find
its feet and participate in outreach and community
building in 2010-2011. The success of our Wikipedia
10th anniversary events in Bristol and London show
how increasingly more important Wikipedia and its
community have become in the United Kingdom.
Following these events, activities have been
characterised by outreach to traditional culture
institutions from the large British Museum and the
British Library to smaller organisations like the
Derby Museum. Also, discussion amongst
academics and through the Imperial College student
organisation and the beginning of an Ambassador
program as well as the very successful collaboration
with Cancer researchers are just the beginning of
what can be fruitful collaboration here in the UK.
Fundraiser
Following the success of our first fundraiser last year, we took full responsibility for all
fundraising in the UK in the 2010-2011 annual fundraiser. The fundraiser lasted 8 weeks,
during which we raised over £540,000 from around 30,000 donors. We have granted
£250,000 of the money raised to the Wikimedia Foundation to support the global activities of
the movement.
Fundraising summit
In May 2010, we hosted the first international summit of Wikimedia chapters and the
Wikimedia Foundation in Bristol to discuss fundraising and plan the year's annual fundraiser.
The summit was attended by Wikimedians from at least six countries and was a very
enjoyable and productive few days. We received very positive feedback from everyone and
the fundraising summit is now a regular part of the Wikimedia calendar, with the next one
being in Vienna.
Wikipedia’s 10th Birthday
The Wikimedia Bristol team hosted 2 events in Bristol in honour of
Wikipedia’s 10th Birthday. In the morning Jimmy Wales led a school
assembly at Bristol Cathedral for the Bristol Cathedral Choir School.
Then, at noon he gave a set piece talk at the University of Bristol on
Wikipedia in celebration of the 10th birthday that was due to take place
two days later. Over 700 people attended the talk live, around 3500
watched it live over the Internet courtesy of one of the sponsors Bristol
City Council, and a further 25,000 watched it after the event. The BBC
Anchor Project recorded it professionally as well and has donated a
recording of the talk under a Public Domain licence to Wikimedia UK.
British Library Editathon
As part of our 10th Anniversary activities and partially inspired by our successes with the
British Museum collaboration, on 14-15 January, 2011, we held a editathon at the British
Library where Wikimedia UK volunteers alongside the employees of the British Library
created Wikipedia content related to the British Library. At the event attendees started 8 new
articles and helped develop the infrastructure on Wikipedia related to the new GLAM/BL
project on English Wikipedia.
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2. Sponsorship
The Bristol-based events have received a lot of support from the local community. The
Jimmy Wales 10th Birthday event in January was supported by the University of Bristol, BBC
Anchor Project, Bristol Festival of Ideas, Bristol City Council, The Watershed & HP Labs.
The earlier UK Fund Raising Summit was supported by HP Labs, Bristol City Council & the
Watershed.
The Bristol Festival of Ideas is approaching the Lottery Fund about a project for 2012 that
they hope we will be involved with called ‘Bristol & The Word’ where they seek to document
the city in words, picture, video & personal experience. They are seeking to create posts for
writers in-residence that will lead to content creation on a wide scale. They believe there
may be scope for content sharing arrangements with us.
Campus Ambassadors UK
Following the Public Policy Initiatives founding of a Campus Ambassador program for fall
2010 in the United States, we have begun exploring how to build such a program in the
United Kingdom. Campus Ambassadors can fulfil multiple outreach roles on campus as the
official representatives of the Wikimedia community on
campus, assistants to Wikipedia teaching assignments
in the University classrooms and in creating students
organisations that advocate for Wikipedia and
Wikimedia. Already events such as the Bristol Wikipedia
Academy, Imperial College London Academy, and
general discussion amongst those already involved in
University outreach have begun to plant the idea of
building Wikipedia as an academic tool and building an
Ambassador program.
Now, we are searching for a combination of instructors
to do Wikipedia teaching assignments, and Wikipedians,
students and university community members interested
in being trained to do campus outreach as Campus
Ambassadors. A training event will be held in the next several months in preparation for
outreach events when students return in the fall.
Imperial College Wikipedia Society
An Imperial College Wikipedia Society has been officially recognised by Imperial College,
the first Wikipedia student organisation to be established in the UK. The society hopes to
feed teaching assignments and outreach on campus and hopes to encourage the use of
Wikipedia on campus and to seriously question its position in the academic community.
Wikipedian in Residence
A Wikipedian in Residence is a volunteer role, whereby a Wikipedia editor accepts a
placement with an institution to facilitate Wikipedia entries related to that institution.
The first Wikipedian in Residence was Liam Wyatt, an Australian Wikipedia editor. His period
of the residency was five weeks during which Wyatt aimed to develop the relationship
between Wikipedia and the British Museum. Matthew Cock who runs the museum’s web site
remarked: "I looked at how many Rosetta Stone page views there were at Wikipedia - that's
perhaps our iconic object - and five times as many people go to the Wikipedia article as to
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3. ours. So a Wikipedian in Residence relationship was born. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/Wikipedian_in_Residence
In a New York Times article entitled: ‘Venerable British Museum Enlists in the Wikipedia
Revolution it says “The British Museum has begun an unusual collaboration with Wikipedia,
the online, volunteer-written encyclopedia, to help ensure that the museum’s expertise and
notable artifacts are reflected in that digital reference’s pages. http://www.nytimes.com/
2010/06/05/arts/design/05wiki.html?_r=1
GLAM-WIKI UK conference
An event entitled “Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums & Wikimedia: Finding the
common ground” conference was held at the British Museum, Friday 26 - Saturday 27
November 2010.
Featuring guest speakers the included: author, activist, journalist, blogger Cory Doctorow, Dr
Kenneth Crews, Director of the Copyright Advisory Office of Columbia University & Sue
Gardener Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation – the event explored how the
GLAM sector could work in partnership with Wikipedia going forward & has led to a set of
strong contacts between the GLAM sector and Wikimedia UK being made
Derby Collaboration
Looking beyond larger GLAM institutions, members in Derby created a GLAM collaboration
with the Derby Museum and Art Gallery. This local museum sponsored a backstage pass for
Wikipedians on 9 April 2011. The collaboration along with the backstage pass have spawned
numerous articles in multiple languages.
Also, with the help of the international GLAM-Wiki community, UK Wikipedians helped the
Derby Museum became the first organisation to use QR codes to link from their collections
to Wikipedia. QR codes allow
visitors with next generation mobile
phones to explore Wikipedia
articles about the topics covered
only briefly in museum displays.
Cancer Research UK
Wikimedia UK ran a 'Wikipedia Workshop' at Cancer Research UK's London offices. Cancer
Research UK's staff explored how their unique expertise can benefit Wikipedia, improving
existing cancer-related pages and sharing new information about cancer and health.
The 'Wikipedia Workshop' was split into two sessions. The first took place in early February
and consisted of a two hour comprehensive introduction to Wikipedia, including what makes
a good Wikipedia article and how to interact with other contributors. The second session, on
Monday 28th March 2011, was an all-day 'hands-on' session where the Wikipedians guided
attendees through their first edits to Wikipedia.
Kate Arnold, director of patient information at Cancer Research UK, said: "Wikipedia is a key
source of information for people looking for information about cancer. Either they go to the
site directly or they Google a term and Wikipedia links appear high in the search rank. We
believe it is vital for the information available on these pages to be accurate and easy to
understand."
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4. The Wikimedia UK logo is copyright and trademarked by the Wikimedia Foundation:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_UK_logo.svg
The Wikipedia 10th birthday logo, by the Wikimedia Foundation, is available under a CC-BY-SA 3.0
Unported license: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:10piece-blank-L_k.svg
The Wikipedia Ambassador logo is copyrighted by the Wikimedia Foundation:
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The GLAM logo, by Husky, h3m3ls, Mischa da Muynuk and Niels, is available under a CC-BY-SA 3.0
Unported license: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glamlogo.jpg
The text of this document is available under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license. Please attribute
Wikimedia UK. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
Presented at Wikimedia UK’s Annual General Meeting on 16 April 2011.
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