Congratulations Liam! regards Arun
Bangalore, India On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:06 AM, Daniel Phelps <[email protected]>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 [email protected]. > > Best, > -Daniel Phelps > Human Resources Manager, Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
