[cross-posted]
FYI:
https://rcahmw.gov.uk/mapping-the-historic-boundaries-of-wales-commotes-and…
"The Royal Commission [on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of
Wales] has developed two digital geospatial layers using late-medieval
sources and historic parish boundaries to recreate the boundaries of
the commotes (cymydau) and cantrefs (cantrefi) of medieval Wales."
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Dear colleagues,
Please disseminate this open invitation to a University of Edinburgh and Wikimedia UK conference to interested colleagues as appropriate.
How can technology support language communities?
Join us at the Celtic Knot conference<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017> taking place Thursday 6 July 2017 at the University of Edinburgh Business School to find out. Our programme is now live!
Keynote speakers
* Professor Antonella Sorace<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017#Keynotes> - Professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh<http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/%7Eantonell/> and founding director of Bilingualism Matters<http://www.bilingualism-matters.org.uk/> will be speaking on ‘Bilingualism in minority languages: a resource and an opportunity’.
* Jason Evans<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017#Keynotes> - Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Wales<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expert_outreach/Wikipedian_in_Residence_at_th…> will discuss his strategy for working with Wikimedia UK and the Welsh Government to develop the Welsh Wicipedia using a combination of community engagement, data manipulation and the implementation of Open Access policies.
Confirmed speakers also include:
* Susan Ross – Gaelic Wikipedian in Residence<https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2017/01/wikimedia-uk-and-national-library-of-…> at the National Library of Scotland.<http://www.nls.uk/news/archive/2017/01/gaelic-wikipedian-begins>
* Dr. Sharon Arbuthnot<http://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/sharon-arbuthnot%28519b4b40-d075-4b…> - Research Fellow, Queen's University, Belfast. Presenting on the AHRC-funded eDIL project<http://www.dil.ie/> (Irish Language dictionary) on Wednesday 5th July.
* Gareth Morlais – the Welsh Language Unit, Welsh Government. Gareth will speak about how mapping how much importance major companies (Google, Twitter, Apple) attach to creative activity on Wikipedia led to the Welsh Government helping to fund two Welsh-language Wikipedia initiatives.
* Delyth Prys – Head of the Language Technologies Unit, Bangor University, will speak on Welsh/Celtic speech technology and why text-to-speech and speech recognition are becoming increasingly important in our digital world.
* Àlex Hinojo<http://www.alexhinojo.cat/en/bio/> – Executive Director, Amical Wikimedia<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia> on the Catalan language project.
* Iñaki Lopez de Luzuriaga – Developing the Basque Wikipedia: From corpus expansion to outreach.
* Astrid Carlsen – Executive Director, Wikimedia Norge speaking on Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and building a project to revitalize the Northern Sami Wikipedia.
* Robin Owain – Wales Manager, Wikimedia UK, speaking on recent developments supporting the Welsh language community.
* Mina Theofilatou presenting on ‘Adult Learners from the Ionian Islands of Corfu and Kefalonia sharing Cultural Heritage on Wikimedia Commons and Wiktionary’.
* Duncan Brown - Llên Natur<http://www.llennatur.com/Drupal7/llennatur/>, presenting on ‘Y BYWIADUR: the dictionary of life’.
* Rémy Gerbet - Wikimedia France; presenting on the Lingua Libre project<https://www.lingualibre.fr/> for massive open audio recording.
* Käbi Suvi - Wikimedia Estonia on the ‘Miljon+’ project as part of Estonia’s 100th anniversary.
* Ilario Valdelli - Wikimedia Switzerland, speaking on the Digital Library in Romansch and the new initiatives to map the archeological sites connected with Celtic culture in the Alps.
The main objective for Celtic Knot 2017 is the coming together of practitioners in the same room at same time; strengthening the bonds of those working to support language communities into a 'knot' and leading into action. We welcome diverse attendees ranging from Wikimedians, linguists, educators, researchers, information professionals, media professionals, translators, learning technologists and more coming together to share good practice and find fruitful new collaborations to support language communities as a result of the event.
To find out more about the conference themes and how to book your place to join us then please visit the Celtic Knot<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017> page. To assist with seeing areas of commonality and links between your work and the Wikimedia projects<http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/2017/03/10/seeing-the-links-at-the-celtic-k…> you can click here<http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/2017/03/10/seeing-the-links-at-the-celtic-k…>.
It promises to be a great event – including a panel on the Politics of Language Online, excellent papers, workshops and discussion spaces. Please feel free to forward this event to interested colleagues in your network.
If you would like to learn more then please contact me direct at ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk<mailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk>.
Very best regards,
Ewan McAndrew
Wikimedian in Residence
Tel: 07719 330076
Email: ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk
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My working hours are 10.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday.
Wikipedia Project Page for the residency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR.
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The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
I have been, for a couple of weeks now, Wikimedian in Residence at ContentMine
Ltd., based in Cambridge. The next Cambridge meetup will be a joint event with
ContentMine:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/34
The venue is an unusual community workshop, and some people may enjoy the chance
to look around it.
As for ContentMine, it is a non-profit startup, and I'm working on its
WikiFactMine project, funded by a WMF grant. I have a desk in the Moore Library
in west Cambridge, and am doing a blog for them:
http://moore.libraries.cam.ac.uk/meet-your-wikimedian-residence
In simple terms the project is to get text-mined scientific facts into Wikidata.
I'd be glad to hear from anyone with an interest, and hope to see some of you at
the meetup.
Charles
Anyone else watch "The Good Fight",[1] the sequel to "The Good Wife" which I
didn't get drawn into? The first series is showing on More 4, and episode 6,
“Social Media and Its Discontents” which I saw earlier this week, was certainly
one to get me shouting at the television.
An absurd plot, but it had a Chicago law firm acting as "ArbCom" in a ban appeal
by an attention-seeking troll. Starting with the proposition that websites do
have terms of service, I think I could teach a class on the whole business of
online toxicity and "fake news" by critiquing the handling by the scriptwriters.
Seriously, I do suggest that "literacy" in these issues should not be left to
TV.
Charles
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Fight
Hello everyone,
As you may know, there is an ongoing discussion about the Wikimedia
movement's strategy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017>.
Organisations and individuals from within the movement are invited to
contribute. Wikimedia UK are hosting a virtual discussion on 9th May to our
own community has a chance to contribute.
It will take place over Google Hangouts, *4pm-6pm on Tuesday 9th May*.
If you want to take part, please let me know off-list so I can send you an
invite.
If you can't make it, there will be other opportunities to take part in
discussions and we're planning on having another virtual meetup as well as
some in-person events.
Richard Nevell
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