Wonderful! Congratulations! Hasive
On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 7:19 PM Shani Evenstein <[email protected]> wrote: > Amazing news! Congrats, Wikimedia Sverige! Well done. > > Shani. > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 1:48 PM, John Andersson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Wikimedia Sverige is proud to be the recipient of $324,500 in support >> from the Swedish Postcode Foundation for our project FindingGLAMs >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FindingGLAMs>. >> >> We will work in collaboration with UNESCO and the Wikimedia Foundation to >> achieve a number of ambitious goals over the 15 month long project. We will >> work to: >> >> - Collect and include data about GLAM[1] institutions around the >> world on Wikidata (e.g. where they are located). This will be done both >> through a campaign and from batch uploads of datasets; >> - Batch upload collections of media files, in collaboration with the >> Structured Data on Commons program; >> - Organize networks of experts to discuss issues with disseminating >> different types of material through the Wikimedia projects; >> - Create a white paper consisting of a number of case studies based >> on the work and discussions outlined above; >> - Communicate about the Wikimedia movement’s work with GLAMs at >> conferences; >> - Organize a number of activities both on- and offline to use the >> material. This include some work around Wikimania 2019 that will take >> place >> in Stockholm, Sweden. >> >> We hope many of you would like to get involved in the project and work >> with us to connect to GLAM partners in your countries. At this point we are >> looking for your help to identify institutions that maintain lists of GLAM >> institutions (similar to the collection of monuments lists for WLM) and >> later to identify GLAM institutions with specific types of collections that >> would like to work with the Wikimedia movement. >> >> Please contact the project manager John Andersson ( >> [email protected]) if you have any questions. If you are >> interested to take part, please sign up on the project portal at Meta: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FindingGLAMs >> >> As always, you can find the full application on our wiki (in Swedish): >> https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:FindingGLAMs_2018/Ansökan >> >> [1] GLAM is an acronym for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. >> >> We look forward working with you! >> >> Best regards, >> >> John >> - - - - >> John Andersson >> Executive Director >> Wikimedia Sverige >> >> Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 >> Email: [email protected] <[email protected]> >> Visiting address: Goto10, Hammarby Kaj 10D, 120 32 Stockholm >> >> _______________________________________________ >> GLAM mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam >> >> > _______________________________________________ > GLAM mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam > -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury (Hasive) **:: **নুরুন্নবী চৌধুরী (হাছিব)* User: Hasive <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hasive> | GSM/WhatsApp/Viber: +8801712754752 Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia <http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Hasive> Board Member | Wikimedia Bangladesh <http://www.wikimedia.org.bd/> fb.com/Hasive <http://fb.com/NCHasive> | @nhasive <http://www.twitter.com/nhasive> | www.nhasive.com
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