Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Interesting Blog posts - provides an insight into the challenges that GLAM institutions might have in dealing with Commons (and other free media repositories)
Hi Liam, Thanks for those links, I hadn't seen the blog post before. I think there's some excellent recommendations that we should consider closely in there, including the customized training, (which is what I've been doing at QM), and developing a document to put somewhere (maybe on the chapter website) that goes over the advantages of allowing commercial use licensing on free content. On this second point there is some extant material on Commons and scattered about the rest of the place, but we could bring it all together and adapt it to the specific situation of Australian GLAM institutions (particularly if we can quote people like Cath on the page, if others are doing it, I hope that we can use peer pressure to get our way!). Cheers, Craig From: wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Liam Wyatt Sent: Thursday, 29 October 2009 6:47 PM To: Wikimedia-au Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Interesting Blog posts - provides an insight into the challenges that GLAM institutions might have in dealing with Commons (and other free media repositories) Wow Craig, this is great and the work you've been doing with the QM is really important outreach and local interaction. It's one think for the Wikimedia community to say give us your photos but you actually getting out there and building a personal relationship with the institution is incredibly valuable. Thank you! I would also like to point people to another recent post (more from the Library angle) about interacting with Wikipedia: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6703519.html There's also this personal response from the sector about the GLAM-WIKI recommendations: http://catherinestyles.com/2009/10/15/glam-wiki-recommendations/ And I know that the National Library is working on a formal/institutional-level response to the recommendations too. All in all, there is a lot of work going on in the GLAM sector to find ways of working with Wikimedia! There'll be a few announcements along these lines in the near future and I know from talking with some European colleagues that our work in Australia is being looked at as the best-practice. So, Criag, keep up the good work and please tell us if you need any specific assistance. -Liam [[Witty lama]] VP Wikimedia Australia wittylama.com/blog Peace, love metadata On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net wrote: Hi All, Some interesting blog posts from David Milne, manager of Strategic Learning at the Queensland Museum. I have been working closely with David in trying to get access to some of QM's extensive collection of public domain photographs and other media, and I think this could be a useful little primer for anyone who is thinking of jumping in and doing the same with one of their local institutions: http://manexus.ning.com/profiles/blogs/back-at-reality-ranch-social We certainly live in interesting (and rapidly changing) times. There is a loud and significant clarion call from Commonwealth and State governments to digitise collections to enable free public access to our cultural assets. As Senator Kate Lundy stated in her address at the GLAM-Wiki conference in Canberra in August, this is the 'default position of the government'. This implies the GLAM sector adopting a spirit of openness, sharing and connectedness. Other inducements to participate in an open access, communication revolution include: the Government 2.0 Taskforce initiative, the Government Information Licensing Framework (GILF) and the need to respond, in this state, to the Queensland 2020:Ideas to Action in order to facilitate 'universal access to our arts and cultural assets'. Back at 'Reality Ranch' many GLAM sector institutions are contending with multiple challenges, not least of which are retaining staff during financially challenging times and maintaining traditional visiting audience numbers. Developing a policy for the use of social media (or helping to reduce your institution's carbon footprint) may be mere peripheral points on the strategic planning radar. Other contributory forces which contribute to a state of partial inertia (in terms of the adoption of social media and digitisation strategies) lay partly with curatorial staff and the IT staff responsible for internet security. There are naturally honourable exceptions to this generalisation; this observation is far from being a slight on their good work. However, curators and IT gurus have reasons for maintaining the 'status quo'; changing the role of curatorial expert to facilitator can be challenging for some (and anecdotally, liberating for others). Responding to public comments made after uploading digitised photographs of collections onto FLICKR or Wikimedia Commons is a tremendous form of social engagement for example, but this is thought to be time-consuming by sceptical staff. Raising the defensive internet screening barriers even higher is
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Interesting Blog posts - provides an insight into the challenges that GLAM institutions might have in dealing with Commons (and other free media repositories)
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net wrote: Hi Liam, Thanks for those links, I hadn’t seen the blog post before. I think there’s some excellent recommendations that we should consider closely in there, including the “customized training”, (which is what I’ve been doing at QM), and developing a document to put somewhere (maybe on the chapter website) that goes over the advantages of allowing commercial use licensing on free content. On this second point there *is* some extant material on Commons and scattered about the rest of the place, but we could bring it all together and adapt it to the specific situation of Australian GLAM institutions (particularly if we can quote people like Cath on the page, if others are doing it, I hope that we can use peer pressure to get our way!). Along exactly those lines I'm about 12 hours away from making this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Witty_lama/Sandbox into [[Wikipedia:Advice for the cultural sector]]. Any assistance/feedback would be appreciated. On a related note, the Director of the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens (Tim Entwisle) has tweeted me saying he'll look into donating these pictureshttp://talkingplants.blogspot.com/2009/10/palace-pictures-from-oaks-to-gardens.htmlin high-res to Wikimedia. He is also interested in having a backstage pass there, so we'll see how that goes. Nice thing for summer! -Liam Cheers, Craig *From:* wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Liam Wyatt *Sent:* Thursday, 29 October 2009 6:47 PM *To:* Wikimedia-au *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Interesting Blog posts - provides an insight into the challenges that GLAM institutions might have in dealing with Commons (and other free media repositories) Wow Craig, this is great and the work you've been doing with the QM is really important outreach and local interaction. It's one think for the Wikimedia community to say give us your photos but you actually getting out there and building a personal relationship with the institution is incredibly valuable. Thank you! I would also like to point people to another recent post (more from the Library angle) about interacting with Wikipedia: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6703519.html There's also this personal response from the sector about the GLAM-WIKI recommendations: http://catherinestyles.com/2009/10/15/glam-wiki-recommendations/ And I know that the National Library is working on a formal/institutional-level response to the recommendations too. All in all, there is a lot of work going on in the GLAM sector to find ways of working with Wikimedia! There'll be a few announcements along these lines in the near future and I know from talking with some European colleagues that our work in Australia is being looked at as the best-practice. So, Criag, keep up the good work and please tell us if you need any specific assistance. -Liam [[Witty lama]] VP Wikimedia Australia wittylama.com/blog Peace, love metadata On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net wrote: Hi All, Some interesting blog posts from David Milne, manager of Strategic Learning at the Queensland Museum. I have been working closely with David in trying to get access to some of QM’s extensive collection of public domain photographs and other media, and I think this could be a useful little primer for anyone who is thinking of jumping in and doing the same with one of their local institutions: http://manexus.ning.com/profiles/blogs/back-at-reality-ranch-social “We certainly live in interesting (and rapidly changing) times. There is a loud and significant clarion call from Commonwealth and State governments to digitise collections to enable free public access to our cultural assets. As Senator Kate Lundy stated in her address at the GLAM-Wiki conference in Canberra in August, this is the 'default position of the government’. This implies the GLAM sector adopting a spirit of openness, sharing and connectedness. Other inducements to participate in an open access, communication revolution include: the Government 2.0 Taskforce initiative, the Government Information Licensing Framework (GILF) and the need to respond, in this state, to the Queensland 2020:Ideas to Action in order to facilitate 'universal access to our arts and cultural assets’. “Back at 'Reality Ranch’ many GLAM sector institutions are contending with multiple challenges, not least of which are retaining staff during financially challenging times and maintaining traditional visiting audience numbers. Developing a policy for the use of social media (or helping to reduce your institution’s carbon footprint) may be mere peripheral points on the strategic planning radar. Other contributory forces which contribute to a state of partial inertia (in terms of the adoption of social media and
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fundraising
Hello, The fundraiser and our taking part in it, or not, has been the main matter of discussion within the committee for the past few weeks. And it is still under discussion... If we do take part, it is likely to be with a late start (ie the fundraiser is due to start early November, and run for around two months, but maybe our involvement would only begin in December). It would be a good help if we could locate a volunteer bookkeeper, especially in Melbourne. Likewise, a CiviCRM expert (user). So if anyone knows or is such a person, it would be great if they could make themselves known :) Sorry for the radio silence of late... I have some communiques I am due to put together and send to this list ASAP... so hopefully sometime over the Cup weekend. cheers Brianna 2009/10/30 private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com: just a quick second on the offer to help - I think it's really quite important that we as a chapter are able to join the fundraising process - p'raps it's all underway, and we're all signed up but the list isn't up to date. If so, hopefully someone in the know can update, and if not, it'd be great to make this a pretty high priority :-) cheers, Peter, PM. On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Angela bees...@gmail.com wrote: Wikimedia's fundraising campaign is starting next month. Six chapters are on the list to take part in that and will receive some of the funding that comes in from relevant countries. Is there any reason Wikimedia Australia is not on the list? Is help needed with anything to get the chapter ready for the fundraising drive so that it can take part? Angela ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
