Wouldn't most museums that allow photography already have a range of
decent photos on other sites like Flickr already? Unless they're asking
that museums allow tripods and more equipment setup for the project?
cheers, Mia
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Frankie Roberto
Sent: 17 August 2009 09:25
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Call for museum participants in 'Britain Loves Wikipedia'
I just spotted this:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives/Britain_Loves_Wikipedia via a
fairly prominent link on Wikipedia.
They'd like to partner with museums to organise events in which
volunteers
take photographs (and perhaps notes from interpretation?) to help
improve
Wikipedia.
I'd suggest that it's only really museums which allow photography and
don't
have complicated copyright restrictions (ie not the National Portrait
Gallery) who should get involved. Given that though, it could be a good
opportunity to get some quality photographs of your museums (Creative
Commons licensed so that you can use them freely), and perhaps to
improve
the coverage of your collections on Wikipedia
Potential participants should read Brooklyn Museum's write-up of the
lessons
learnt from their Wikipedia Loves Art project:
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/bloggers/2009/03/31/
wikipedia-loves-art-lessons-learned-part-1-pre-competition/(summary:
keep it simple, and minimise your own workload).
The project lead is Mike Peel, who can be contacted at
[log in to unmask]
Frankie
(Disclosure: I'm a member of Wikimedia UK, although not a particularly
active one)
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Frankie Roberto
Experience Designer, Rattle
0114 2706977
http://www.rattlecentral.com
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