From an astronomy point of view, I'm very interested in this collaboration.
I'm not sure about latitude, but there's a very interesting topic on longitude
that could be worked on, namely John Harrison's clocks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison
Decent pictures/illustrations of all of his clocks (particularly historic images,
especially related to the restoration of his clorks) would be fantastic (we currently only
have recent, rather low resolution images of H1, H4 and H5). Historical information and
imagery that would tell the story behind his clocks would be absolutely amazing.
... and that's just the start. Any and every topic of content related to the Greenwich
Observatory would absolutely amazing to be released on Wikipedia.
Thanks,
Mike
On 10 Apr 2012, at 21:52, geni wrote:
On 28 March 2012 21:55, Chris Keating
<chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I was talking earlier to the National Maritime
Museum about organising an
editathon. They wanted to see what use we thought we could make of the
material in the archive collection, and whether Wikipedians would be up for
coming and making use of it. I am anticipating that this could prove very
popular, but if any of you are naval/maritime/biography/astronomy editors,
it would be really handy to have some specific examples of things we might
do to build the case for this event taking place. (And to answer the most
obvious question, we're currently discussing how much latitude we'd have to
digitise things there and then.)
Their archive catalogue is available
here:
http://collections.rmg.co.uk/archive.html#!asearch - obviously we
would have access to the museum and its library as well.
Regards,
Chris
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I think they have a pretty complete set of William Frederick Mitchell
images which means colour coverage of a lot of british victorian
warships. Beyond that there is the primary source issues and I can't
find much on flat-iron/Rendel gunboats.
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geni
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