Wikipedia:GLAM/NHMandSM/9th Month Report

Projects delivered in the last month

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  • Attended Tech4Open at Google HQ, run by Commons Machinery looking at the problem of attribution and credit being separated from images
  • Attended Developing an information system for UK natural science collections Project development workshop at the Linnean Society to discuss open licensing with natural science museums
  • Ran training with Office for National Statistics staff on making infographics available and usable for Wikipedia
 
Wikipedia editathon at the Natural History Museum with Imperial College Wikipedia Society and ONS staff on the 27th of November 2013
  • Ran an editathon with Imperial College students, outcomes included the writing of a Python script to find species names on Flickr image names and checks this against existing Wikipedia articles
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  • Understanding of Wikimedia
  • The contributions that institutions can make to open licensing and mechanics of doing so
  • Teaching people to edit Wikipedia

Projects in development

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  • Training and editathon for university students at the Office for National Statistics
  • Working with DCMS and Cabinet Office on a study on open licensing

Planned projects

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  • A guide for museum staff on using open license content on different platforms