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Author Archives: Liam Wyatt
Training in the Australian Outback – Photo essay
Over the last week, Whiteghost.ink and I have been travelling around Central Western Queensland with representatives from the State Library of Queensland delivering some Wikipedia training to the local librarian, history and tourism communities. This is part of a partnership … Continue reading
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National Museum of Australia Situation Report
As mentioned in my previous post, I have been offered a “2012 Director’s Fellowship” at the National Museum of Australia (NMA). This is a six-month post where I’ve been asked to create a strategy for how the museum can build … Continue reading
Posted in museums, National Museum of Australia
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times-they-are-a-changin’
After nearly a year down, my blog is finally alive again! My “GLAM Fellowship” with the Wikimedia Foundation concluded at the end of 2011, and as a result the beginning of 2012 has seen lots of changes for me, so I … Continue reading
Posted in wikimedia foundation
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Themes from Wikimedia Conference 2011
Last weekend I attended the Wikimedia Conference 2011 in Berlin, an annual event hosted by the German Wikimedia Chapter to bring together representatives from every Chapter together with the Wikimedia Foundation board and senior staff. Although I attended two years … Continue reading
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Ambassadors
A few weeks ago I wrote about my priorities during this “fellowship” year – one of which was the concept of the “Wikimedia GLAM Ambassador“. In this post I will try to explain what this means in theory, what has … Continue reading
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Horn OK Please – India is Great
Recently I returned from a whirlwind tour of some of the cultural sector in India in order to work with the local Wikimedia community on building their GLAM collaboration capacity. Equally I was there to learn what the particular advantages … Continue reading
Clamour for GLAMour
A couple of weeks ago it was announced on the Wikimedia Foundation blog, that I had been given a one year fellowship to focus on Cultural Partnerships within the Wikiverse – informally known as “GLAM fellow”. Not surprisingly, I think … Continue reading
Posted in museums, wikimedia foundation
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A series of unrelated things
This post is a bit of a random collection of things that are interesting (to me at least) that have come up in the last few months: One. The Brooklyn Museum in New York recently launched an exhibition on the … Continue reading
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How to make cultural collaborations scale?
The way it was There was a time when the idea of the Wikimedia community and a culture sector organisation undertaking a collaboration project would have been looked at with extreme skepticism – from both directions. It was rare for … Continue reading
Posted in chapters, museums
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The NPG at GLAM-WIKI
Q) Who would you least expect to attend GLAM-WIKI:UK? A) The head of rights & reproductions at the National Portrait Gallery Yesterday Wikimedia UK formally announced the schedule for the forthcoming conference which includes an opening keynote by Cory Doctorow … Continue reading
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Let the Fundraiser begin
This is the first time I’ve visited the Wikimedia Foundation offices in their current location. It’s always lovely to be able to see a physical manifestation of the Wikiverse (be it at a meetup or Wikimania etc.) but to see … Continue reading
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Backstage Pass at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
Yesterday the Indiana Wikimedia community was invited along to the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis (the largest in the world of its kind) for a “backstage pass” tour as the opening event of a burgeoning relationship between that museum and Wikimedia. … Continue reading
e-volunteer program
One of the things I often ask of GLAMs is “do you have a volunteer program?” (and everyone generally puts their hand up) and then “do you have an e-volunteer program” (at which point everyone puts their hand back down). … Continue reading
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Keep Austin Weird
I’m in Austin, Texas this week for the Museum Computer Network conference to talk about the British Museum project and generally fly the flag for free-culture. I’ve never been to this part of the world and I’ve discovered that the … Continue reading
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Open Culture 2010
“Open Culture 2010” conference has finished, long live the Open Culture conference. Last week at the Westergasfabriek park in Amsterdam – a brilliantly converted industrial estate-come-cultural precinct – Europeana hosted their annual event to show what they are planning to … Continue reading
Posted in copyright, museums
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Public Domain Mark
I knew that Europeana groks the Public Domain, but not this much… As part of their “Open Culture 2010” conference that I’m keynoting tomorrow (sneak peek), Creative Commons have launched the PDM (Public Domain Mark) upon the world – and … Continue reading
Europeana: the Meta-GLAM
For the next two weeks I’m here at Europeana in Den Haag/The Hague working out of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) – the National Library of the Netherlands – and I need your advice. I want to know any ideas you … Continue reading
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GLAM-WIKI:UK
Apologies to those subscribed to the wikimedia blog planet and have seen this announcement before on the Wikimedia UK blog. Building on the good relationship with the British Museum from my residency there, Wikimedia UK have asked me to convene … Continue reading
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Conference-a-thon!
In the next couple of months I’m on a bit of a conference-a-thon, presenting the idea of the cultural sector having a proactive relationship with Wikipedia and more generally learning things about the intersection between culture and technology. 1) Right … Continue reading
Posted in academia, museums
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End of my residency
[This is part of a series of posts from my time as "Wikipedian in Residence" at the British Museum.] Today is my last day at the British Museum as the “Wikipedian in Residence” project draws to the end of its … Continue reading
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