Wikipedia:GLAM/YMT/3rd Month Report

Institution	Resident's Name	Period Covered	Date of Report
York Museums Trust	PatHadley (talk)	14 December 2013 - 17 January 2014 (Third month of residency)	23 January 2014

Overview

With the interruption of the Christmas/New Year break, this month has been less active than previous ones. However, major victories include the first substantial image upload (coins from the Middleham Hoard) and myself participating in an online Q&A session based on a YMT blogpost about GLAMwiki

Working with curators

The Tempest Anderson related stuff is still on hold while we await the cleaning of the slides.

Andy Woods, curator of numismatics has provided images of 54 coins from the Middleham Hoard. Uploading the 110 images proved to be more complicated than expected due to the problems formatting data from the collections database and uploading them into Commons standard tool. Particularly due to the fact that the upload tool implements the Information template and though the Artwork template (or others) can be pasted in WikiText, elements of the Information template still need to be manually deleted from each file after upload. Now they are uploaded everyone is very pleased with the images and I am hoping to work with user:Wehwalt and user:Johnbod to create an article on the hoard itself (through AFC and use the coins to illustrate further articles. To this end I have made contact with WikiProjects Numismatics, Archaeology, and Yorkshire. I am awaiting responses from the latter two.

Halfcrown of Charles I of England. Dated: 1643-1644 O: Bust of Charles I R: Coat of Arms on Cross

Eight Reales of Philip IV of Spain. Dated: 1621-1655 O: R: Coat of Arms

Sixpence of Elizabeth I of England. Dated: 1575 O: Bust of Elizabeth I R: Coat of Arms on Cross

Work beyond YMT

In the autumn I was invited to take part in a 'Ask an Expert' Q&A session run on YMT's blog by Musem Development Yorkshire. This organisation helps support Yorkshire's smaller and specialist museums so I wrote a blog post on 10 Reasons your (small, or specialist) museum should engage with Wikipedia. I'm awaiting pageview statistics for the post but the Q&A session ran pretty well through twitter and the comments section.

Plans

The next month will be dominated by the planning of two events: An edit-a-thon on York's luminaries (16 March) and a second training event for YMT volunteers (28 February). Though they are a few weeks off I intend to do as much of the planning as early as possible - particularly in order to be able to promote the edit-a-thon as much as possible. Other small events include me giving a talk to the Friends of York Art Gallery (27th February). The second major image upload should be possible in the next few days - this will be the Studio Pottery collections recently presented through the Google Cultural Institute. The digital team are also now closer to making a much larger collection of Public Domain images from the art gallery collection available online (this is currently in beta testing). I hope this will be a good experimental dataset for the mass upload tool.