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* 6 May: Delivering "Working with the Open Content movement" workshop. Meeting in afternoon about Literary History of Medicine project. Collecting new laptop. First draft of April report. | * 7 May: Further report writing, setting up future meetings and further work on requests for content. | ||
* 6 May: Delivering [[Oxford libraries and museums May 2015|"Working with the Open Content movement" workshop]] and writing up initial evaluation/reflections. Meeting in afternoon about Literary History of Medicine project. Collecting new laptop. First draft of April report. Confirming attendance at historical diaries event which is tentatively set for 11 June | |||
* 5 May: Preparing handouts, finalising slides for next day's workshop. Collecting new staff card for access to collections. Various correspondence. | * 5 May: Preparing handouts, finalising slides for next day's workshop. Collecting new staff card for access to collections. Various correspondence. | ||
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Revision as of 10:56, 7 May 2015
From April 2015 to March 2016 I am working as WIR in the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford.
Activity log
- May
- 7 May: Further report writing, setting up future meetings and further work on requests for content.
- 6 May: Delivering "Working with the Open Content movement" workshop and writing up initial evaluation/reflections. Meeting in afternoon about Literary History of Medicine project. Collecting new laptop. First draft of April report. Confirming attendance at historical diaries event which is tentatively set for 11 June
- 5 May: Preparing handouts, finalising slides for next day's workshop. Collecting new staff card for access to collections. Various correspondence.
- April
- 27 April: Communications away-day
- 23 April: Finalising materials for staff workshop. Meetings about metrics/ reporting. Meeting Gillian Evison about Oriental collections. Proposed session for staff conference.
- 22 April: Reviewed more content for potential inclusion. Requested pilot set of content from John Johnson collection. Met with Sarah Loving of Oxford Vaccine Group to discuss how to edit around OVG's work in line with Wikipedia policy; how to improve coverage of women; open access publication for public impact.
- 21 April: Reviewing content. Preparing presentation materials. Create custom logo for badging Bodleian uploads. Recommend Wikisource and Commons materials on Lewis Carroll for the forthcoming Alice in Wonderland hackathon at the Story Museum. Expand redlist.
- 16 April: Meeting Daria Cybulska about expectations, planning, and reporting. More review of existing digital content. Arranging more meetings with content holders.
- 15 April: Meeting about John Johnson collection of ephemera. Reviewing digitised ephemera to build lists for sharing. Attending British Library session on open data and reuse of open content: followed up recommending Wikisource for transcription of out-of-copyright books.
- 14 April: Staff workshop date set for 6 May. Write proposal for a short talk about Wikipedia for Oxford Geek Nights. Setting up various meetings. Internal email with advice on Wikisource. Working on briefings and presentation materials.
- P.S.: The "Bias on Wikipedia" talk has been accepted and will run later in the year. For reference, the abstract:
Wikipedia is an invaluable starting point for research, but in known to fall short of its goal of fairly summarising all human knowledge. The site is shaped to different extents by commercial, demographic, and technological forces. Battles between promotion and neutrality, between humans and bots, are being played out every hour. There are more insidious forms of bias deciding whether or not topics get a mention. This talk is a mix of good and bad news from a simultaneous optimist and pessimist. Martin is a veteran Wikipedia editor and currently Wikimedian In Residence at the Bodleian Libraries.
- 9 April: Met Lucy Evans and the rare books team to discuss source material about historical women, maps, and sources about collections. Other induction meetings. Met Sarah Barkla of Oxford University Research Archive. Oxford was involved in the Jisc-ARMA ORCID project: ORCID iDs are not implemented yet but this is coming in the future. Investigating potential target articles for digital content. Professor Dame Carol Robinson has written about Women in Science: investigating if the relevant paper or other materials can be made open access.
- 8 April: More meetings with staff. Met Anne Manuel of Somerville College Library to talk about preparations for Ada Lovelace celebration. Edited Wikidata to reflect family relationship of Helen Taylor and Harriet Taylor Mill. Correspondence with Monica Green. Starting survey of Digital Bodleian to identify materials for sharing. Met Christine Madsen to talk about collections and sharing. Writing abstract for staff event.
- 2 April: Induction continues. Individual meetings with staff. Further edits and links to project page. Found & fixed some links from WP to Bodleian that are broken. Took a mandatory online course. Add this project to list of GLAM projects on WP and WMUK. Monica Green, a US-based historian, has got in touch offering to list women scientists from medieval period: have responded.
- 1 April: Induction. Getting acquainted with team and building. Get keys, logins, email address, office PC setup. Lots of form filling. Took online Diversity & Equality course. Declaration on Wikipedia & Commons. Start project page on WP. Add self to official list of WIRs.