| Institution | Resident's Name | Period Covered | Date of Report |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Library of Scotland | Ally Crockford | 14 April 2014- 14 May 2014 (Tenth month of residency) | 14 May 2014 |
Projects delivered edit
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Objectives and outcomes edit
| National Library of Scotland's Mission | Wikimedia UK's Mission |
|---|---|
| Enrich lives and communities. Encourage and promote lifelong learning, research, and scholarship. Provide universal access to information by comprehensively collecting and making available the recorded knowledge of Scotland. Promote access to the ideas and cultures of the world. |
To help people and organisations build and preserve open knowledge, to share and use freely. |
Public outreach edit
Objective: Delivery of 3+ public workshops for editors (i.e. edit-a-thons); help organise and host other Wikimedia related events for members of the public, Wikimedians, researchers and librarians such as workshops, Edit-athons, meetups, backstage pass tours
- 10th Month Outcomes:
- No major public events were held in April
- WiR joined with User:PatHadley to deliver informal training to four members of Open Access Archaeology; these new contributors have planned a second meetup on 20 May and intend to continue organising Wikipedia meetups and edit-a-thons focusing on the topic of Scottish Archaeology and Archaeology in general. 50% of these new users were women.
Upcoming public events edit
| Known or Prospective Date | Event Name or Description | Host or Partner Organisation | Scope of event or talk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06 June 2014 | Working with Wikimedia Workshop | NLS | This workshop is designed to introduce staff from the cultural sector and other related areas such as education to Wikimedia events like edit-a-thons, backstage pass events, and photo expeditions. The event aims to make connections with staff members from organisations interested in working with Wikimedia but who do not currently have an ambassador, Wikimedian in Residence, or committed volunteer from the Wikimedia community to help them put together events. |
| 12-14 June 2014 | Datafest Scotland 2014 | Alwyn Williams Building (School of Computing Science) and Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow, Scotland | Wikimedia volunteers will be on hand to organise a tutorial on editing Wikipedia on 13 June |
| 18 June 2014 | Wikimedia Information Session | Grampian Information, Aberdeen | A follow on from the Grampian Information Annual Conference in December, I have been asked to present a similar talk as part of the Grampian Information AGM in June. Details to follow. |
| June 23-24 2014 | Library Science Talks 2014: Wikimedians in the Library | CERN Library, Swiss National Library | Swiss National Library in Bern, the CERN Scientific Information Service in Geneva and the Association of International Librarians and Information Specialists organise an annual series of 'Library Science Talks'. Talk would bring together international and Swiss Wikimedians as well as Librarians to discuss the Wikimedian in Residence programme: possibilities, benefits, difficulties, experiences. |
| July 2014 | Content release edit-a-thon (topic TBD) | NLS (unknown partner org?) | Once a successful process for uploading content to Commons has been put in place, an appropriate collection will be identified to feature as part of an edit-a-thon intended to insert images in relevant Wikipedia articles and improve the content of those articles. |
| Summer 2014? | Jisc Rsc Scotland editathon | New Jisc Rsc Scotland Offices | Jisc Scotland are anticipating a move of house in the near future (date TBC), and have offered up their new offices as a venue for an editathon once they have settled. Topic yet to be determined. |
| Summer/Autumn 2014 | Wikipedia Training Capture session (by User:ACrockford) | Jisc Scotland, CILIPS MmIT?; Scottish government? | Following from the Jisc 'Tales of a Wikimedian in Residence' webinar, Adobe capture would be used to provide a simple but thorough introduction to contributing to Wikipedia for Librarians and FE/HE educators. This would be released under CC-BY-SA license and uploaded to Commons, and also made available by Jisc as a wider learning resource for educators. |
| Sept/Oct 2014 | Wikimedia & Libraries Information session (by User:Graeme Arnott and User:ACrockford) | CILIPS MmIT | General introduction to Wikimedia, background to GLAM:Wiki collaborations, details about NLS WiR programme, ScotWiki network of volunteers, aims and goals, specific examples of successful projects, etc. |
| October/November 2014 | EduWiki Conference 2014 - Edinburgh | Wikimedia UK | It has been confirmed that the EduWiki conference will be held in Edinburgh this year, as a one-day rather than the usual two-day event; planning is under way although at a very preliminary state. |
Staff workshops and events edit
Objective: Organise and host workshops for Library staff to explain how they can directly contribute their knowledge and expertise to develop Wikipedia articles; deliver 7+ workshops for National Library of Scotland staff and researchers or related institutions
- 10th Month Outcomes:
- A Wikipedia/Digital Open Access training event will be held during the NLS's annual 'Learning at Work' week; the workshop will be held with the Library's IPR Officer Fred Saunderson on 27 May and will focus on the Library's Digital Content policy and encouraging staff engagement with Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons
Contributor communities edit
Objective: Help establish relationships with the Scottish Wikimedia community, editors and projects
- 10th Month Outcomes:
- An ORG meeting was held on 10 May in Edinburgh; WiR was not in attendance due to illness, but WMUK Trustee Padmini Ray Murray was present
- Planning and organisation of the 2014 EduWiki Conference continues; information regarding venues is being gathered for quotes
Material for future digitisation edit
Objective: Explore adding digital resources such as digitised books, articles, photographs and posters to Wikimedia Commons; work with staff, including librarians and curators, to identify areas of Wikipedia and sister projects that could be enriched with resources and knowledge from the Library’s collections
- 10th Month Outcomes:
- The trial release of NLS digital content to Wikimedia commons continues. The template for NLS Collections on Wikimedia Commons has been updated for appearance and phrasing, and the metadata for the Forth Bridge photos appears to have been successfully mapped using the GWToolset in the Commons beta cluster. A misidentification of the upload domain means that a new domain has to be whitelisted before images can be uploaded, but current projections for an upload schedule aim to successfully upload images to the beta cluster as soon as the domain is cleared. Once this has been successfully managed, the process will be replicated on Wikimedia Commons.
- Following a successful trial upload on Commons, a generalised metadata mapping will be created that will enable the quick and efficient upload of subsequent collections.
- Content currently selected for upload includes:
- National Library of Scotland Flickr images
- Content from the Library's digital resource pertaining to Robert Louis Stevenson - including images from manuscripts including early works, lecture notes, and letters to W.E. Henley and Frances Sitwell
- WWI photographs from the collection of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig
- Slezer's Scotland - 70 engraved views of Scotland from the 17th century by military engineer John Slezer
- Selected images and figures from the Medical History of British India collection - including images from The Bombay plague : being a history of the progress of plague in the Bombay presidency from September 1896 to June 1899; Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894-1895; Scientific Memoirs by Medical Officers of the Army of India; Report of the research work of the imperial bacteriological laboratory, Muktesar, 1908-09
- Sonnets from the Portuguese (Elizabeth Barrett Browning), illustrated by Phoebe Anna Traquair
- Photographs of the South Side of Edinburgh
- The Scottish Bridges collection - including 40 black-and-white photographs capturing the construction of the Forth Bridge and 91 black-and-white photographs of the wrecked piers of the Tay Bridge
- The 40 images of the construction of the Forth Bridge from the Scottish Bridges digital collection have been identified for an initial trial upload to become familiar with the batch upload process and identify any potential bugs or pitfalls. This will be followed by the images from the Tay Bridge disaster.
- The decision has been made to release the images in smaller batches according to their originating collection - the first identified for release have been the photographs of the Forth Bridge and the Tay Bridge; this is partly to allow for the development and familiarisation with the batch uploading process and also partly to encourage more effective use of the images on Wikimedia Commons after their upload
- The current strategy for release is as follows: in addition to the categories relevant to the images, a category will be created that is relevant to the collection (where appropriate - e.g.Theatrum Scotiae within the Commons category for John Slezer). As each batch is uploaded, messages and links will be posted to relevant WikiProjects and general topic talk pages (e.g. Talk:Robert Louis Stevenson for the content from the Robert Louis Stevenson resource) making interested contributors aware of the new content and pointing them to the category.
- Additional digital collections that would be ideal for this kind of strategic upload include:
- the special collections of printed music collection (includes an internationally renowned collection of scores and libretti of the works of Giuseppe Verdi, featuring concert programmes, newspaper cuttings, photographs and stamps as well as sheet music)
- Scotia Depictia - over 100 pictorial works and text pages relating to 19th century Scotland's antiquities, cities towns and picturesque scenery
- Jacobite prints and broadsides - illustrations of people and events relating to the Jacobite Rebellions in Scottish history (1715 and 1745-46)
- Soviet posters - The Woodburn Collection of around 70 posters issued between 1919 and 1930 (copyright may need to be cleared first)
- Theatre Posters, 1870-1900 - The Weir Collection of playbills, programmes and photographs mainly of Edinburgh theatres in the late 19th century
- Following a conversation with curators at Edinburgh City Libraries during the 2014 EDGE Conference, a second Wikimedia Takes Edinburgh photo expedition has been proposed for July 2014. The event would specifically be designed to correspond with the release of images from the NLS' and Edinburgh City Libraries' shared collection of 19th and early 20th century photographs of Edinburgh (prospect of a 'now and then'-type focus was raised). A meeting with the National Records of Scotland was arranged for 5 May but was postponed; the meeting aims to discuss their involvement in the use of this material in Wikipedia articles, potentially identifying a few key 'lost' landmarks in Edinburgh for which old and new photos of the location could be uploaded and information from the NRS and the NLS could be used to create or improve articles on an area, event, or landmark.