Hi all, crossposting to the Australia lists & cultural partners list, I'd just like to send a quick message to you all to tell you what I'm up to, now that my "GLAM Fellowship" with the WMF is over. I would not normally feel the need to interrupt everyone by detailing what my employment is, but it is quite relevant to Wikimedia & GLAM so I think I should explain briefly. I apologise in advance for the self-focused post! If you're interested in more details, or can help by giving me tips/contacts, please reply offlist.
>From last week, I have taken a part time role with the Australian Research Council funded "Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation" http://cci.edu.au/ which is also the office of Creative Commons Australia (and sponsored the first ever GLAM-WIKI conference in 2009). My role will be to assist Australian cultural organisations to get more of their archives online using Creative Commons (especially under cc-0 and cc-by). [By definition I will therefore NOT be focusing on getting access to already Public Domain content, but this might happen as a flow-on effect in some cases]. This is not an "advocacy" role but a practical "hand holding" role. Not all of this work will be relevant to Wikimedia projects, but hopefully I'll be able to report frequently in "This Month in GLAM" on new content available for Wikimedians to use. I have several leads and contacts already, but if you know any Australian cultural organisations that are interested in using CC, please consider passing their details to me offlist so I can help facilitate. Relatedly, also last week, I have accepted the six-month role of "2012 Directors Fellowship" at the National Museum of Australia. They have asked me to develop a comprehensive "Wikimedia strategy" for the organisation which includes staff training, executive briefing, situation report (e.g. what other museums are doing, and how their content is already being used) and a three year plan. Once this project is finished and the situation report & plan is formally accepted I will also put it on Commons in case others find it useful. Unsurprisingly, I will probably be recommending they run "backstage pass tours" and "editathon" events - so look out for that too :-) Sincerely, -Liam / wittylama p.s. I'm also doing a Masters in IP law this year - because the world needs more Copyright lawyers! :-P Peace, love & metadata
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