Re: [Wikimedia-l] [GLAM] Wikimedia Sverige receives $324k+ in funding for the project FindingGLAMs

[Nurunnaby Hasive]

Wonderful! Congratulations!

Hasive

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 7:19 PM Shani Evenstein  wrote:

> Amazing news! Congrats, Wikimedia Sverige! Well done.
>
> Shani.
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 1:48 PM, John Andersson <
> john.anders...@wikimedia.se> wrote:
>
>> Wikimedia Sverige is proud to be the recipient of $324,500 in support
>> from the Swedish Postcode Foundation for our project FindingGLAMs
>> .
>>
>> We will work in collaboration with UNESCO and the Wikimedia Foundation to
>> achieve a number of ambitious goals over the 15 month long project. We will
>> work to:
>>
>>- Collect and include data about GLAM[1] institutions around the
>>world on Wikidata (e.g. where they are located). This will be done both
>>through a campaign and from batch uploads of datasets;
>>- Batch upload collections of media files, in collaboration with the
>>Structured Data on Commons program;
>>- Organize networks of experts to discuss issues with disseminating
>>different types of material through the Wikimedia projects;
>>- Create a white paper consisting of a number of case studies based
>>on the work and discussions outlined above;
>>- Communicate about the Wikimedia movement’s work with GLAMs at
>>conferences;
>>- Organize a number of activities both on- and offline to use the
>>material. This include some work around Wikimania 2019 that will take 
>> place
>>in Stockholm, Sweden.
>>
>> We hope many of you would like to get involved in the project and work
>> with us to connect to GLAM partners in your countries. At this point we are
>> looking for your help to identify institutions that maintain lists of GLAM
>> institutions (similar to the collection of monuments lists for WLM) and
>> later to identify GLAM institutions with specific types of collections that
>> would like to work with the Wikimedia movement.
>>
>> Please contact the project manager John Andersson (
>> john.anders...@wikimedia.se) if you have any questions. If you are
>> interested to take part, please sign up on the project portal at Meta:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FindingGLAMs
>>
>> As always, you can find the full application on our wiki (in Swedish):
>> https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:FindingGLAMs_2018/Ansökan
>>
>> [1] GLAM is an acronym for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums.
>>
>> We look forward working with you!
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> John
>> - - - -
>> John Andersson
>> Executive Director
>> Wikimedia Sverige
>>
>> Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
>> Email: john.anders...@wikimedia.se 
>> Visiting address: Goto10, Hammarby Kaj 10D, 120 32 Stockholm
>>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [GLAM] Wikimedia Sverige receives $324k+ in funding for the project FindingGLAMs

[Shani Evenstein]

Amazing news! Congrats, Wikimedia Sverige! Well done.

Shani.

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 1:48 PM, John Andersson 
wrote:

> Wikimedia Sverige is proud to be the recipient of $324,500 in support from
> the Swedish Postcode Foundation for our project FindingGLAMs
> .
>
> We will work in collaboration with UNESCO and the Wikimedia Foundation to
> achieve a number of ambitious goals over the 15 month long project. We will
> work to:
>
>- Collect and include data about GLAM[1] institutions around the world
>on Wikidata (e.g. where they are located). This will be done both through a
>campaign and from batch uploads of datasets;
>- Batch upload collections of media files, in collaboration with the
>Structured Data on Commons program;
>- Organize networks of experts to discuss issues with disseminating
>different types of material through the Wikimedia projects;
>- Create a white paper consisting of a number of case studies based on
>the work and discussions outlined above;
>- Communicate about the Wikimedia movement’s work with GLAMs at
>conferences;
>- Organize a number of activities both on- and offline to use the
>material. This include some work around Wikimania 2019 that will take place
>in Stockholm, Sweden.
>
> We hope many of you would like to get involved in the project and work
> with us to connect to GLAM partners in your countries. At this point we are
> looking for your help to identify institutions that maintain lists of GLAM
> institutions (similar to the collection of monuments lists for WLM) and
> later to identify GLAM institutions with specific types of collections that
> would like to work with the Wikimedia movement.
>
> Please contact the project manager John Andersson (
> john.anders...@wikimedia.se) if you have any questions. If you are
> interested to take part, please sign up on the project portal at Meta:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FindingGLAMs
>
> As always, you can find the full application on our wiki (in Swedish):
> https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:FindingGLAMs_2018/Ansökan
>
> [1] GLAM is an acronym for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums.
>
> We look forward working with you!
>
> Best regards,
>
> John
> - - - -
> John Andersson
> Executive Director
> Wikimedia Sverige
>
> Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
> Email: john.anders...@wikimedia.se 
> Visiting address: Goto10, Hammarby Kaj 10D, 120 32 Stockholm
>
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