| Institution | Resident's Name | Period Covered | Date of Report |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Library of Scotland | Ally Crockford | 13 January - 13 February 2014 (Seventh month of residency) | 13 February 2014 |
Projects delivered edit
Metrics edit
- Accounts Created
Only four new accounts were created this month, 100% by women, all as part of the Anybody but Burns editathon on 25 January.
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
- 7th Month Outcomes:
- The Anybody but Burns editathon editathon was a success despite the weather, with 11 participants in attendance, 7 of them returning users. Several of the participants, while long-term editors, had not yet been to a Wikimedia event. The afternoon saw the creation of 5 new articles (3 on women poets) and the improvement and expansion of 12 more (4 women poets).
- Dates have changed for some forthcoming events (see table below) and new events have been organised as part of the Women Who Shaped Scotland series (March 2014).
| Known or Prospective Date | Event Name or Description | Host or Partner Organisation | Scope of event or talk | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27-27 February 2014 | EDGE Conference 2013 Wikimedian in Residence talk (by User:ACrockford) | Edinburgh Central Libraries | Discussing the potential benefits to GLAM and other organisations of collaborating with Wikimedia projects; focusing on increasing awareness and impact, sharing knowledge/resources, opening up to new audiences; case studies from GLAM:Wiki Collaborations at NLS and elsewhere; etc. Audience will consist of representative from a wide range of GLAM organisations as well as the political, health, educational, and corporate sectors. | |
| 04 March 2013 | Do you have the facts on Wikipedia? SLA talk | Special Libraries Association Europe/NLS | Speaking to librarians and other information professionals about the use of Wikipedia personally and professionally, introducing them to key Wikipedia/Wikimedia policies and guidelines, usual GLAM pitfalls, and the basics for contribution while addressing their concerns and misconceptions. | |
| 13 March 2014 | Scottish Women in Contemporary Art Wikifest and Editathon | Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, The University of Dundee | Working with faculty and staff at the DoJ to organise a full-day, multi-part event including afternoon drop-in training and info session for students and faculty at the University of Dundee, a formal round table discussion on open access digital content, IPR, and art projects, and an evening editathon on Scottish Women in Contemporary Art. Part of the Women Who Shaped Scotland series of events taking part this month. | |
| 19 March 2014 | What I Know Is Symposium | University of Stirling (organised by Greg Singh) | Raise awareness of Wikimedia projects amongst students/researchers/staff at University of Stirling. | |
| 21 March 2014 | Scottish Women in Computing Editathon | University of Edinburgh (organised by NLS and BCSWomen Edinburgh) | Follow up to December's BCS Women in Computing event at the IBM offices in Edinburgh, part of the Women Who Shaped Scotland series of events taking part this month. | |
| Spring 2014 | Wikipedia Training Capture session (by User:ACrockford) | Jisc Scotland, CILIPS MmIT? | 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. | |
| Spring 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. | |
| April/May 2014 | EduWiki symposium - Venue TBC (Edinburgh, Dundee, Stirling?) | Wikimedia UK etc. | It has been (informally) suggested that a one-day symposium to be held in Scotland will replace the EduWiki conference since WikiMania will be in London in 2014. | |
| Early May 2014 | 'Wha's Like Us' Backstage Pass event(s) | National Library of Scotland | As part of the NLS's Winter/Spring exhibition, 'Wha's Like Us: A Nation of Dreams and Ideas', which also corresponds with Scottish Homecoming in 2014, a backstage pass will focus on adding content on Scotland's people, history, and culture drawn from the remit of the exhibit itself. | |
| 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 [http://www.grampianinfo.co.uk/grampian-information-annual-conference-2013.html Grampian Information Annual Conference information 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. | |
| 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. |
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
- 7th Month Outcomes:
- No staff training events were held this month; however, two training events are being organised for 20 February
Contributor communities edit
Objective: Help establish relationships with the Scottish Wikimedia community, editors and projects
- 7th Month Outcomes:
- The Anybody but Burns editathon saw several existing contributors who had not previously attended a Wikimedia event participating and signing up for the ScotWiki mailing list
- A third Edinburgh Wikimeet is being planned for late February/early March; to try and garner more attendees we have sent messages around the OKFN Scotland mailing list and the ScotWiki mailing list requesting feedback for the day and time.
- Stevie Benton represented WMUK and Gill Hamilton represented the NLS at the most recent Open Knowledge Foundation Edinburgh meetup on 22 January. The National Library of Scotland hosted this event, and Graeme Arnott, an instrumental Wikimedia volunteer in Scotland, was also present to speak about Open Badges.
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
- 7th Month Outcomes:
- A proposal is being drafted for a trial release of the 2,300 images on the NLS's Flickr account onto a CC-0 or CC-BY-SA license and to upload them to Commons; these images would be supplemented with a selection of images from the NLS's digital galleries. This proposal will be considered by the Digital Access manager, the Library's IPR officer, and the Marketing and Enterprise officer before being submitted to the appropriate curators of the collections. The current aim is to release these images by April 2014; their impact would be studied with the intention of sharing that data with the committee currently reviewing the Library's Digital Open Access policy.