On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Lydia Pintscher < [email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks. Stuff like that is useful to have as examples. > If it's possible to engage some of the GLAM institutions here in NYC and around the world in doing donations like this, I know I for one would like to strongly promote and support this type of Wikidata+Commons-focused initiative. I think other chapters might be able to integrate this into ongoing initiatives and annual editathons that are in the GLAM-o-sphere.... We have some coming up this Fall but that is probably too soon? Is there a tentative timeframe for this project? I see a lot of work was done in 2014. *WM NYC Planning Stages: Future Events* [TENTATIVE] - *AfroCROWD @ MoCADA’s Soul of Brooklyn Festival.* Day, August Date TBD, 2016 - *Council on Foreign Relations.* Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - *Textiles Editathon @ FIT.* Thursday, September 22, 27, or 29, 2016 - *Open House New York (OHNY) Photo Competition + Hackathon.* Saturday & Sunday, October 15-16, 2016 - *WikiArte @ MoMA.* Saturday, October 22, 2016 -- Latin American art with Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (FC/CPPC) -- last year's event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/WikiArte/MoMA_2015 - *Asian American Editathon @ Guggenheim.* Thursday, November 10, 2016 -- part of possible Smithsonian Asian American Art initiative http://smithsonianapa.org/wiki/ > > And to be a total pain, have existing library resources, like the A&A > > Thesaurus from the Getty, been consulted to provide controlled > vocabularies > > and possible copy catalog potential? > > Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus: > > http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/ > > example: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300021368 > > > > I'm not a working librarian but I think there are multiple semantic > > resources for artwork, especially. I remember this one from grad > school.... > > We will be using Wikidata's vocabulary (items and properties) as that > has a lot of advantages here. However a lot of that is already > connected to A&A Thesaurus and others. So we're pretty flexible there > for different usecases. > Oh good. Very glad to hear. Thanks Lydia! - Erika
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