Cornwall GLAMs workshop

Wikimedia UK education projects

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Cornwall GLAMs one day Wikimedia projects workshop - In a nutshell Where?: National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth - [1] When?: Thursday 20 February, 9:30 to 4:45 Booking: email Fæ or Jonathan Cardy

NMMC in 2007

This Wikimedia projects workshop is composed of a practical introduction to the projects and a hands-on editathon in the morning followed by a more detailed workshop and exploration of GLAM focused case studies in the afternoon. The workshop is hosted by the NMMC but is intended to benefit GLAMs in Cornwall to increase public engagement with the collections of artefacts, artworks, archives and educational material that the institutions hold, both by planning how providing different forms of physical and virtual access for volunteers can improve presentation of the material on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, and by running programmes of publicly events and longer term projects creating open knowledge content of educational interest.

The workshop is expected to include between 10 to 16 participants, with some joining in the afternoon session.

Agenda (draft)

Morning

• 9:30-10 Coffee, registration
• 10:00 Expectations - Jonathan Griffin NMMC Director
• 10:10 Housekeeping for the day
• 10:15 The what and how of Wikimedia and Wikipedia - Fae
• 10:40 How the Editathon works, list of expected outcomes - Fae
• 10:45 Editathon starts!
  • 10:45-11:05 New editors - creating a new Wikipedia article from scratch - Fae
• 11:40 5 minutes to share solutions and re-forming - everyone
• 12:30 (approx) 10 minute wind down, summary of achievements - everyone

Lunch

• 12:50-13:45 Lunch; continued parallel editathon; discussions and suggestions for the afternoon workshop

Afternoon

• 13:45 How much does making the museum open cost us? - Fae
  • 4 key recent open knowledge case studies in 20 minutes
• 14:15 Q&A (approx) - interactive
• 14:50 Break
• 15:00 Learning points from this morning's editathon and group proposals - Fae
• 15:20 Workshop - group led choices based on experience of the day, Fae leading
  • practical funding and project proposals - leveraging the mission of Wikimedia and the mission of the museum
  • measuring project outcomes and existing reports to use
  • planning and costs of how to engage the global volunteer network
  • how 50,000 people could read about your museum in a day
• 4:15 Summary of the day and commitments - Fae and Jonathan Griffin
• 4:30 Close down, feedback forms, nominate local pub