great news, On 22 March 2013 15:31, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote:
> As someone who has been working with Whiteghost.ink in the GLAM space in > Sydney, with the SLNSW specifically, and in a wide variety of other > ways for many years, I am extremely happy and proud of this announcement! > In a way it is the payoff from having the first ever GLAM-Wiki conference > in Canberra back in 2009 (that's my claim at least!) > > I'm not forgetting the great work with WiR that has happened in other > libraries around the world, significant ongoing collaboration projects with > other libraries in Australia, and Wikimedia Australia's ongoin > relationship with the Paralympic commission (including the associated WiR > there). However, being a Sydneysider whose first love is History means > that I have a strong affinity for the Library, its collections and its > cultural status. So, it is fantastic that across the whole country it > should be the first GLAM to have a Wikipedian-in-Residence in the country! > > Congratulations :-) > > Liam / Wittylama > > On Friday, 22 March 2013, G. White wrote: > >> Dear Australian Wikimedian and Cultural Partnerships teams, >> >> I'm extremely pleased to announce that this week I started as >> Wikipedian-in-Residence at the State Library of New South Wales >> (SLNSW<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Library_of_New_South_Wales>), >> which is our oldest library and has a collection of global importance, >> including significant rare books, manuscripts and objects. It is a place to >> which almost every Australian scholar would pay homage. This is the first >> time there has been a Wikipedian-in-Residence in an Australian cultural >> institution and it has it has taken some time to work through the >> administrative processes to establish the position. As some of you know, >> Wikimedia Australia has been doing a lot of work with libraries locally. >> Most recently we were the major sponsors at the annual librarians >> conference and over the last couple of years we have been travelling to >> regional areas to deliver training to the local librarians (in partnership >> with several of the State Libraries). SLNSW also has a partnership with the >> National Library in Canberra, which is digitising Australian newspapers and >> linking the records back to the respective Wikipedia articles >> (example<http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/35>). >> Most significantly is that the SLNSW has been been building up a strong >> relationship with us recently and myself and other local Wikimedians have >> been delivered several training workshops to an in-house team of >> librarians who are contributing references and content to Wikipedia as part >> of their day-to-day work (project >> page<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/SLNSW>). >> You can see there that a lot of the content we've been targeting for the >> team to write is the articles about the newspapers that have now been >> digitised. >> >> My WiR position reports to the Leader of the library's Innovation Project >> (Mylee Joseph, cc'd here), who is the instigator of that team. Since my >> term as WiR is for one day a week over 14 weeks, and the scope of work is >> excitingly ambitious, it is this team that will make it possible to achieve >> what one part time Resident could not. They are a keen and capable group. >> The Residency has been established to provide training, coaching, guidance, >> specialist advice to staff, evaluation of related projects as well as >> assistance with process mapping and benchmarking so that other Australian >> libraries can benefit from SLNSW's experience. In terms of content, as well >> as the newspapers, my Residency is likely to be involved in work on >> articles on the The 100 Objects >> Exhibition<http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/exhibitions/2010/onehundred/100-objects/>, >> indigenous and original materials, convict women, convict artists, the >> crossing of the Blue >> Mountains<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Blaxland#Blue_Mountains_expedition>and >> Australia's involvement in World War I. >> >> I am glad this group has paved the way and am very excited about the >> possibilities before us! I will post updates here and in the "This Month in >> GLAM" report. I will also probably come here to ask questions and seek >> feedback and help. I hope that the process mapping and benchmarking would >> also be useful to similar projects elsewhere. >> >> Whiteghost.ink >> > > > -- > wittylama.com > Peace, love & metadata > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > > -- GN. Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com Gn. Blogg: http://gnangarra.wordpress.com
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