Meetings/2009-11-03/Agenda/Chair's Report

Phone calls

• Received a call from a person interested in wikimeets + becoming a member; directed towards wikimeet page and application form. They commented that the website is currently too wordy, and following the links around is non-obvious, which needs to be improved. Discuss

Cultural institutes

• Met with Public Catalogue Foundation, BBC and Intelligent Heritage on 22 October. The meeting covered:
  • The legal aspects of digital reproductions (no creative input hence no copyright, but commonly believed by museums that sweat of the brow gives rise to copyright; NPG issue was discussed)
  • Making the images available on Wikipedia (would require museums to agree to CC-BY-SA licensing of the images; questions over resolution; concerns over commercial reuse)
  • Metadata: potentially reusing Wikipedia content, with checking by experts.
  • All very preliminary; will take time before things can happen; museums need to be happy & on board. There will be a meeting with PCF & museums in January, where licensing of images will be discussed.
• Met with Tate on 23 October, with Steve Virgin. The meeting covered:
  • Overview of what Wikimedia is, how content partnerships could work, digital restorations, etc. Wikipedia is their 4th biggest referrer to their website.
  • Backstage Pass: interested, to be investigated.
  • Britain Loves Wikipedia: likely that they won't be able to participate due to restrictions on photography inside their galleries. Interested in participating in the event in other ways, though.
  • GLAM-WIKI - they commented that it would be important to get people creating multi-institution archives present, in addition to the institutes themselves.
  • Next meeting to be arranged, with Liam Wyatt present due to his knowledge of backstage pass.
• Upcoming meetings:
  • Multimedia Usability Project Meeting France, 5-8 November
  • Courtauld Gallery, 10 November, with Liam Wyatt
  • Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, 10 November, with Liam Wyatt