Amazing News, Thank for sharing it, John. Congratulation to Wikimedia Sweden. :) ----------- *Sailesh Patnaik* "*ଶୈଳେଶ ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ "* *LinkedIn* : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sailesh-patnaik-551a10b4 *Twitter*: @saileshpat
On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 4:18 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 > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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 <johnandersso...@hotmail.com> > Visiting address: Goto10, Hammarby Kaj 10D, 120 32 Stockholm > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
