[OpenGLAM] GLAM Cafe Philadelphia & an interested Collections Manager

Fri Oct 25 17:36:45 UTC 2013

First, an invitation: Starting November 12, 2013, the second Tuesday 
of each month, we'll be holding a monthly GLAM Cafe evening meetup at 
the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia.  The concept is 
similar to DC's WikiSalon, but the GLAM Cafe will be open to a 
broader audience. People with interests in the areas of GLAM, digital 
humanities and Wikipedia are invited to get together and work on all 
sorts of ideas and projects. We hope that local Wikipedians will meet 
and form an ongoing breakout group; this is also a great opportunity 
to get to know people at a variety of GLAM institutions. In addition 
to editing, people have expressed interest in commons contributions 
and in using Wikipedia when teaching classes (e.g. digital literacy, 
history).  If anyone is interested in attending, and will be 
available on the second Tuesday of the month, you'd be most welcome! 
For more details, see: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/2013_GLAM_Cafe

One of the people who'll be attending this month's GLAM Cafe is 
Marianne Weldon, a recent Wikipedian and also the Collections Manager 
of Art and Artifacts at Bryn Mawr College. I spoke with her and 
others at Bryn Mawr in September.  Marianne is very interested in 
having Bryn Mawr contribute to Wikimedia Commons.    You can see a 
catalog of Bryn Mawr's holdings at:  http://triarte.brynmawr.edu/

As a comment to the GLAM Cafe meetup, 
<http://www.meetup.com/__ms36873222/GLAM-Cafe-Philadelphia/events/143492152/comments/264243922/t/uc1_rd/?itemTypeToken=COMMENT&read=1&_af_eid=143492152&_af=event&expires=1382825588600&sig=207392107d3f709ada691dfcd5bd8c08fdbd6bd4>Marianne 
Weldon	[User:Mweldon] writes,

	"<http://www.meetup.com/__ms36873222/GLAM-Cafe-Philadelphia/events/143492152/comments/264243922/t/uc1_rd/?itemTypeToken=COMMENT&read=1&_af_eid=143492152&_af=event&expires=1382825588600&sig=207392107d3f709ada691dfcd5bd8c08fdbd6bd4>I'd 
love to know if anyone has developed standards/instructions for 
helping to train people to edit records, and/or to upload large 
numbers of images to creative commons, etc. that they would be 
willing to share."

If there are people here who could speak to her concern, and would 
like to get in touch with her, or send suggestions to this list that 
I can forward to her, that would be very helpful. (Chemical Heritage 
Foundation' isn't at the point of doing mass uploads, so I don't have 
experience relevant to what she's interested in doing.)  What tools 
are people currently using for mass uploads, and who would be good 
contacts at Wikipedia for Marianne and possibly others to talk to?

Many thanks,
Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Wikipedian in Residence, Chemical Heritage Foundation
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