Noopur Congratulations.....Great job!
You make us proud by the professional way in whuch you have gone about achieving this milestone. Is it possible to see a final copy of the proposal/draft to the Museum. After the end of March, I will be able to help you in the area of handloom textiles and point you to some experts on the subject. Regards Harriet Harriet Vidyasagar www.outofindia.net www.womenofindia.net INDIA: 91-99011 66276 USA: 1-301-649-2240 On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:41 PM, 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-mum mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum > >
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