I whole heatedly congratulate you for this real success, oral citation seem to be a good way of collecting sources as most of the stuff they'd be having will have a documented format in the minds of people which we would be documented only via oral citation.
Subha On 11-Feb-2012, at 1:11 AM, Noopur <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > I am extremely delighted to announce India's first (?) GLAM collaboration > with a State institution in New Delhi, the capital of India. The National > Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum (NHHM), New Delhi has approved our draft and > we will soon begin a 6 month pilot project with them. > I have been corresponding with their director for over 2 months now, since > the GLAMcamp in Amsterdam. After a series of conversations with the Director, > Dr Ruchira Ghose, I sent in an approval and after two meetings, she sent in a > revised proposal to the Ministry of Culture in India. Just two days ago, the > Ministry approved this project and has also provided her a small grant to > support our incidental expenses. NHHM has over 30,000 objects including > pottery, textiles, metal work, paintings and more. > > Goals: > 6 month pilot project to churn out 25 'Good Articles'. > Training staff and capacity building > Recruiting 10 new editors from art colleges to work on site for > digitization/documentation > Make the museum a regular avenue for GLAM meets > Note: Good Articles here doesn't mean GA by en-WP standards. We intend to > create at least 25 articles with substantial information. Would like your > inputs on this. > > Challenges: > Delhi has a small community, so we really need help from EVERYONE possible, > local and global > The staff members are only comfortable with Hindi, so we'd appreciate ALL > help possible from hi-WP editors > Biggest challenge: India is a vast country with craft traditions in millions > of villages. So, at the time of acquiring, many art objects do not come with > published information, documentation and references. Much of this stuff is > 'word of mouth', oral traditions and stories of artisans etc. We have asked > the Museum to start documenting and publishing these stories under their > Publication cell BUT that will take time. Do you think using oral citations > in this case would be helpful? > Since this is my/our first time, we will appreciate guidance on scanning, > making an MoU and help creating/maintaining the project page. Can someone > please help? *makes puppy face* > I apologize for this really long mail but, my next meeting with the Director > is on the 14th of February when we will start our 'lead-up' program to the > project. > To all the WiRs: Did you make some sort of a program schedule or a timeline > that I could use? > > I would love all your suggestions on this project and am *very* excited to > make my own share of GLAM contributions and mistakes :) Of course, now we > will also start contributing to TGIM. > > Cheers, > Noopur > > -- > Noopur Raval > Student > Arts and Aesthetics > Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi > Ph: 9650567690 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-in-en mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en
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