Hi WMNYC,

My WiR residency at the Metropolitan New York Library Council is almost over,  so I think it's a good time to report back on my projects with the local GLAM community.

Find below short summaries of my recent, upcoming, and future Wikipedia projects and engagements with institutions. If you have any questions about these projects or would like to get more involved in any one in particular please let me know.

All the best. 

Yours,

Dorothy Howard

Dec GLAM Project Report for my Work as WiR for METRO

Recent:

Met with Met Digital Media Dept. They will be having a meeting with Sree Sreenivasan, about the museum-wide approach to Wikipedia this week. Hoping to get a Wikipedian-in-Residence there and find/organize staff excited to edit. 

Writing articles for the Frick Art Reference Library as part of my propose-an-article project. EX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Art_Association

Upcoming:

Edit-a-Thon this Friday, 12/6, at Queens Library Central branch 10am-7pm.

2 staff-only trainings next week at NYPL, Mid-Manhattan and SIBL branches.

Ongoing:

The Frick Art Reference Library started editing Wikipedia, and created a Wikipedia 'task force' group of staff. Their editing activities will be posted on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Frick

The Center for Jewish History now has an institution-wide Wikipedia committee, headed by Kevin and Leanora, who we’ve been working with. Kevin just got a GLAM page set up. See Lea's work on this interview. http://metro.org/articles/wikipedia-for-special-collections-a-conversation-with-center-for-jewish-historys-leanora-lange/

Working with Brooklyn Public Library, specifically the Brooklyn Collection, to create a Wikipedia volunteer program there were a Wikipedian would volunteer to help them put some of the Brooklyn collection. Might draw from MLIS students, college students.

Future:

Communication with Center for Digital Research and Scholarship at Columbia U about a Linked Jazz Edit-a-Thon at Studio@Butler in the spring

Have been communicating with Sian Evans (ARTstor) and Michael Mandiberg (CUNY Design) planning an Edit-a-Thon at Eyebeam in Chelsea on February 1, 2014

As you probably know, Wikimedia NYC is organizing “Wikiconference USA” which is set for May 30 - June 1st. (Open to the public) Our grant was submitted to the Wikimedia Foundation and we are waiting for approval but it is almost guaranteed that we will get it bc of community consensus. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_US-NYC/WikiConference_USA_2014

Frank Collerius at NYPL Jefferson Market Library is interested in hosting more Edit-a-Thons after the success of our November event.

Helping organize a 7-sisters Edit-a-Thon among Mount Holyoke, Vassar, etc. I have been corresponding with a few librarians at Mount Holyoke and Barnard about this. GLAM Page

We will be putting out more “interviews with GLAM Wikipedians” blog posts like this one. http://metro.org/articles/wikipedia-for-special-collections-a-conversation-with-center-for-jewish-historys-leanora-lange/

I’m hoping to have a few days in January where I set up a public information booth for Wikipedia at NYPL. Beginning stages of brainstorming/planning.