(Just confirming SLWA/Battye is an arm of the Department of Culture and the
Arts in WA, so it's probably the same in most places)

2009/11/4 Craig Franklin <cr...@halo-17.net>

> I'm generally pessimistic about how successful petitions can be when
> presented to the government.  That said, perhaps an open letter signed by
> various free-culture groups (including WMAU) delivered to Senators Lundy
> and
> Conroy, Julia Gillard (in her role as Education Minister), and Peter
> Garrett
> as Arts Minister, could gain some interest.  At the moment, releasing stuff
> under free licences isn't a macro-vote winner, so I don't see that we're
> going to be able to have much influence yet (not withstanding Kate Lundy's
> excellent work so far, for which we should be very appreciative), so I
> think
> that the focus should be on convincing people that what we do is generally
> a
> good idea - if we can get the public to come, the politicians will follow!
>
> We should also look at influencing state governments as well - since they
> themselves are great sponsors of GLAM bodies and the like.  For instance,
> the Queensland Museum is basically an agency of the QLD state government.
> I'd imagine arrangements for state libraries, museums and the like are the
> same in other states and territories.
>
> Regards,
> Craig
> (who is sick at home from work, so if the above post makes no sense, I
> apologise!)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
> [mailto:wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Simonpedia
> Sent: Monday, 2 November 2009 10:53 AM
> To: wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikimediaau-l] A Petition
>
> Hi Craig, Liam,
>
> Just reading through your comments and links.
>
> Two thing stuck out. The first is Catherine's comment;
> "But I also know that this would be a significant change for cultural
> institutions
> and that without a ministerial directive, it won't happen across the sector
> any time soon".
> http://catherinestyles.com/2009/10/15/glam-wiki-recommendations/
>
> The second is Kate Lundy's "this is the 'default position of the
> government'".
>
> This discussion is taking place in all publically funded institutions at
> present; not just GLAMs.
> The gov2 hackfest in Canberra last week was another step in this "chipping
> away at monoliths".
>
> Can I make the suggestion that it might be time to offer a petition.
> The committee down there is playing with trying to do this electronically,
> I can't see how this may be attempted without a Single Sign On for all
> Australian citizens. But that's almost there now.
> This might be good opportunity to get the first step into the online world
> for .gov.au institutions.
> At least we can encourage the .gov to put their policy where their mouth
> is.
>
> http://www.aph.gov.au/House/committee/petitions/index.htm
> regards, simonfj
>
>
> 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:
> 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:
>
> > ?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'.
>
>
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> 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
>
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> 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
> >
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> From: "Craig Franklin" <cr...@halo-17.net>
> 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)
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> 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 also an
> understandable response from people responsible for protecting the
> integrity
> of the data held on servers, which are subject to attack by a minority of
> the public with malevolent intent.
>
>
>
> "My personal view is that it is prudent to develop an understanding of the
> reasons why some GLAM sector institutions are not moving forward in
> embracing social media strategies at the pace advocates would like, and
> external government directives demand. There needs to be better
> understanding of institutional workplace culture and any arterial blockages
> to progress before a remedial stent is applied. Resolutions to 'clear the
> barricades' include the social media pioneers demonstrating to others in
> the
> GLAM sector the pathways they chose, illustrating how the views of sceptics
> were won over and internal incumbrances overcome. A large dollop of
> assertive leadership and having 'champions for the cause' in high places
> are
> essential. The benefits of engaging in opening up public access to
> collections and interacting with the public using various forms of social
> media has to be seen to outweigh the reasons for 'defending the fort'. To
> that end there are some great ideas being shared around on the CAN site and
> I hope, in time, through MANEXUS."
>
>
>
> David has also made an interesting post on Brianna's "Museums and
> Wikipedia"
> group at Ning (http://museum30.ning.com/group/museumswikimedia ):
>
>
>
> "Post GLAM-Wiki conference, a really helpful and positive relationship has
> been established between the Queensland Museum and a member of the
> Queensland Wikimedia community. Uploading a small sample of copyright free
> photographs from the museum's extensive collection onto Wiki Commons has
> been a slow process. This is not technically challenging, but ensuring that
> in-house policies and procedures are met requires considered thought.
>
>
>
> "I have written a blog over on MANEXUS which sheds some light on broader
> issues which the GLAM sector have to contend with in relation to the
> adoption of various forms of social media which may be of interest,
> particularly to the Wikimedia community."
>
>
>
> It has certainly been my experience so far that institutions are really
> eager and excited at the idea of sharing their material with us (and with
> the world at large), but that internal procedures and policies are to an
> extent hindering that goal.  For instance, it has taken some weeks for QM
> to
> work out how they are going to reconcile their internal file naming policy
> with Commons' file naming policy.
>
>
>
> This list has been a bit quiet, so I figured I'd throw this out there for
> discussion and further comment!
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Craig Franklin
>
>
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