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"Being a beloved institution will get you through times of no money | <center>'''"Being a beloved institution will get you through times of no money'''<br> | ||
better than money will get you through times of being an irrelevant one." | '''better than money will get you through times of being an irrelevant one."''' - Cory Doctorow | ||
Announcing the “GLAM-WIKI:UK” conference<br> | |||
26-27 November, British Museum, Clore Education Centre. </center> | |||
Should Galleries, Libraries, Arts & Museums (GLAM) take the funding hit on the chin and reduce their activities OR should they seek to engage the online e-volunteer community that is already reaching 30% of the UK population every day. Wikipedia already is every GLAMs e-Volunteer program, the institutions just don't support it yet. | |||
; National Portrait Gallery | |||
Tom Morgan, Head of Rights and Reproductions at the National Portrait Gallery, will be presenting:<br> | |||
"Wikipedia and the National Portrait Gallery - A bad first date? A perspective on the developing relationship between Wikipedia and cultural heritage organisations". | |||
This will be the first time that the NPG has been able to express its perspective to an audience of interested Wikimedians since the heated debate last year. | |||
; Cory Doctorow | |||
Blogger, scientist and online futurologist Cory Doctorow (speaking at the GLAM-Wiki Conference on Nov 26) told Wikimedia UK that “"trading funding for relevance is a bad bargain” .....could the new age of economic austerity hasten the demise of smaller galleries, libraries, arts and museums as being starved of funding leads them down the pathway to irrelevancy...”. Cuts to funding mean that the pathway to irrelevancy is now opening up in front of many as a real threat. This conference is about solutions that can stop such a disastrous thing ever happening. It seeks to (maybe put the bits in I wrote about what a delegate learns by attending here). | Blogger, scientist and online futurologist Cory Doctorow (speaking at the GLAM-Wiki Conference on Nov 26) told Wikimedia UK that “"trading funding for relevance is a bad bargain” .....could the new age of economic austerity hasten the demise of smaller galleries, libraries, arts and museums as being starved of funding leads them down the pathway to irrelevancy...”. Cuts to funding mean that the pathway to irrelevancy is now opening up in front of many as a real threat. This conference is about solutions that can stop such a disastrous thing ever happening. It seeks to (maybe put the bits in I wrote about what a delegate learns by attending here). | ||
Is there a danger that any future cuts to cultural heritage funding might mean the sector is knocked off its feet and will take several years to recover, OR, are there creative ways in which the online e-voluntary sector can help it to co-create imaginative alternatives that allow it to produce more from less – could working with the Wikimedia movement be the answer? | |||
“To use the jargon of today,” says Chair of Wikimedia UK, Andrew Turvey, “There is an alternative!” It is one that the sector should consider now as spending priorities for future years are set and operational budgets for the next 24 years become clearer. It is working closer with the voluntary sector. Many organisations, like Wikimedia UK, have as their core objectives the diffusion of common cultural heritage to as wide an audience as possible as part of their operational objectives. These include state funded bodies such as the Arts Council (and some other Library/Gallery body that I know not the name); Friends Groups that raise funds for these organisations, local councils and the private sector where a lot of sponsorship money is raised. Now it is time for the guardians of our cultural heritage to realise that they should build a stronger partnership with e-voluntary organisations – and Wikimedia UK (responsible for the promotion of the core values of the global Wikimedia movement that has created the Wikipedia project) is part of this solution. | “To use the jargon of today,” says Chair of Wikimedia UK, Andrew Turvey, “There is an alternative!” It is one that the sector should consider now as spending priorities for future years are set and operational budgets for the next 24 years become clearer. It is working closer with the voluntary sector. Many organisations, like Wikimedia UK, have as their core objectives the diffusion of common cultural heritage to as wide an audience as possible as part of their operational objectives. These include state funded bodies such as the Arts Council (and some other Library/Gallery body that I know not the name); Friends Groups that raise funds for these organisations, local councils and the private sector where a lot of sponsorship money is raised. Now it is time for the guardians of our cultural heritage to realise that they should build a stronger partnership with e-voluntary organisations – and Wikimedia UK (responsible for the promotion of the core values of the global Wikimedia movement that has created the Wikipedia project) is part of this solution. | ||
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===Editors notes=== | |||
;About Wikimedia: | |||
Wikimedia is an umbrella term for the projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation and for the movement of volunteers that contribute to and maintain them. These projects are: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikisource, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Mediawiki and Wikitionary. These projects make up one of the top five websites in the world. | |||
;About Wikimedia UK: | |||
Wikimedia UK is the local Wikimedia chapter covering the United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is an independent organisation that supports free and open knowledge throughout the United Kingdom, including promoting and supporting the projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. | |||
;About the Wikimedia Foundation: | |||
The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. is the US-based non-profit organisation that operates some of the largest collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world. These include Wikipedia, one of the world's 10 most-visited websites, and Wikimedia Commons. | |||
;''Contact details:'' | |||
Michael Peel, Secretary, Wikimedia UK | |||
* Email: michael.peel@wikimedia.org.uk | |||
* Phone: +44 (0)7988 013 646 | |||
Revision as of 01:25, 11 November 2010
better than money will get you through times of being an irrelevant one." - Cory Doctorow
Announcing the “GLAM-WIKI:UK” conference
Should Galleries, Libraries, Arts & Museums (GLAM) take the funding hit on the chin and reduce their activities OR should they seek to engage the online e-volunteer community that is already reaching 30% of the UK population every day. Wikipedia already is every GLAMs e-Volunteer program, the institutions just don't support it yet.
- National Portrait Gallery
Tom Morgan, Head of Rights and Reproductions at the National Portrait Gallery, will be presenting:
"Wikipedia and the National Portrait Gallery - A bad first date? A perspective on the developing relationship between Wikipedia and cultural heritage organisations".
This will be the first time that the NPG has been able to express its perspective to an audience of interested Wikimedians since the heated debate last year.
- Cory Doctorow
Blogger, scientist and online futurologist Cory Doctorow (speaking at the GLAM-Wiki Conference on Nov 26) told Wikimedia UK that “"trading funding for relevance is a bad bargain” .....could the new age of economic austerity hasten the demise of smaller galleries, libraries, arts and museums as being starved of funding leads them down the pathway to irrelevancy...”. Cuts to funding mean that the pathway to irrelevancy is now opening up in front of many as a real threat. This conference is about solutions that can stop such a disastrous thing ever happening. It seeks to (maybe put the bits in I wrote about what a delegate learns by attending here).
Is there a danger that any future cuts to cultural heritage funding might mean the sector is knocked off its feet and will take several years to recover, OR, are there creative ways in which the online e-voluntary sector can help it to co-create imaginative alternatives that allow it to produce more from less – could working with the Wikimedia movement be the answer?
“To use the jargon of today,” says Chair of Wikimedia UK, Andrew Turvey, “There is an alternative!” It is one that the sector should consider now as spending priorities for future years are set and operational budgets for the next 24 years become clearer. It is working closer with the voluntary sector. Many organisations, like Wikimedia UK, have as their core objectives the diffusion of common cultural heritage to as wide an audience as possible as part of their operational objectives. These include state funded bodies such as the Arts Council (and some other Library/Gallery body that I know not the name); Friends Groups that raise funds for these organisations, local councils and the private sector where a lot of sponsorship money is raised. Now it is time for the guardians of our cultural heritage to realise that they should build a stronger partnership with e-voluntary organisations – and Wikimedia UK (responsible for the promotion of the core values of the global Wikimedia movement that has created the Wikipedia project) is part of this solution.
Wikimedia UK is ready to listen to the problems facing the guardians of our culture heritage. Our community wants us to work more closely with the sector to explore ways in which we can leverage our presence as the world’s fifth biggest set of websites – and bring it to the benefit of institutions that are bold and that release content to Wikipedia and our other projects. Having a small percentage of an institutions content on our sites will create a buzz across the online world that could lead to both cultural and perhaps commercial benefits for the donors – in terms of more hits to their website. Indeed, closer links to Wikipedia and other projects will add valuable ‘Wiki-juice’ to the search engine results online and mean that smaller bodies will likely see a rise in interest in what they do.
Editors notes
- About Wikimedia
Wikimedia is an umbrella term for the projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation and for the movement of volunteers that contribute to and maintain them. These projects are: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikisource, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Mediawiki and Wikitionary. These projects make up one of the top five websites in the world.
- About Wikimedia UK
Wikimedia UK is the local Wikimedia chapter covering the United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is an independent organisation that supports free and open knowledge throughout the United Kingdom, including promoting and supporting the projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
- About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. is the US-based non-profit organisation that operates some of the largest collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world. These include Wikipedia, one of the world's 10 most-visited websites, and Wikimedia Commons.
- Contact details:
Michael Peel, Secretary, Wikimedia UK
- Email: michael.peel@wikimedia.org.uk
- Phone: +44 (0)7988 013 646