John Cummings was based at the museums from April 2013 until January 2014 and has worked to engage both members of staff and the public on topics relating to Wikimedia and open knowledge. John’s role included running workshops and outreach events to create a sustainable engagement with museum staff, volunteers and visitors. The aim was to help to build a long term relationship between the museums and the Wikimedia community. He worked with the museums to release content on their important and unique collections and develop methods for understanding Wikipedia’s impact on the public understanding of science.
The Science Museum have released 50 images under an open license, click here to view |
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Images released by the Science Museum, London under and open license
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We want to create the world’s first truly multilingual virtual museum to allow anyone with access to Wikipedia (including those people using Wikipedia Zero) to 'visit' the museum online and provide information for the 50% of Natural History Museum visitors speak languages other than English in their own language.
There are several letters that have been released from the Natural History Museum's collection and are available to transcribe on Wikisource:
A beginners guide to contributing to Wikisource
Saturday 19th October 2013 Trowel Blazers: Celebrate women in archaeology, palaeontology and geology – by creating and improving Wikipedia articles!
General themes relating to the upcoming Information Age exhibition at the Science Museum.
1st Month Report |
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Science Museum and Natural History Museum Wikimedian Residence 1st month report[edit]During my first month of residency I have mainly focussed on researching the possible areas of collaboration, introductory meeting with staff members relevant to the project. Also carrying out presentations and informal meetings on Wikimedia projects and how to contribute to them and setting up small test projects to show effectiveness of contributing to and using Wikimedia and other open knowledge projects. Completed tasks:[edit]
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2nd Month Report |
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Science Museum and Natural History Museum Wikimedian Residence 1st month report[edit]The second month of my residency has focused on research for an advisory report for the museums on the value of openly licensing its resources and setting up training. A full list of activities as follows:
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3rd Month Report |
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Due to time off and attending a workshop, time in the museum working at the residency was reduced to 2 weeks. Projects delivered within the past month[edit]
A brief outline of how the projects delivered link with the general objectives of the residency, and the Wikimedia UK’s mission[edit]
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4th Month Report |
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Due to time off and attending a workshop, time in the museum working at the residency was reduced to 2 weeks. Projects delivered within the past month[edit]
A brief outline of how the projects delivered link with the general objectives of the residency, and the Wikimedia UK’s mission[edit]
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5th Month Report |
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Due to time off and attending a workshop, time in the museum working at the residency was reduced to 6 weeks. The residency is now done on a part time basis (20 hours per week). Projects delivered within the past month[edit]
A brief outline of how the projects delivered link with the general objectives of the residency, and the Wikimedia UK’s mission[edit]
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6th Month Report |
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The residency is now done on a part time basis (20 hours per week). Projects delivered within the past month[edit]
Selection os images from the Science Museum collection added to Wikimedia Commons with their page views per day[edit]
A brief outline of how the projects delivered link with the general objectives of the residency, and the Wikimedia UK’s mission[edit]
Projects in development[edit]
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7th Month Report |
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Projects delivered within the past month[edit]Presentations[edit]
Training events[edit]
TrowelBlazers[edit]
A brief outline of how the projects delivered link with the general objectives of the residency, and the Wikimedia UK’s mission[edit]
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8th Month Report |
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Projects delivered within the past month[edit]
A brief outline of how the projects delivered link with the general objectives of the residency, and the Wikimedia UK’s mission[edit]
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9th Month Report |
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Projects delivered in the last month[edit]
A brief outline of how the projects delivered link with the general objectives of the residency, and the Wikimedia UK’s mission[edit]
Projects in development[edit]
Planned projects[edit]
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Final case study report - [1]