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Wikimedian in Residence for the National Library of Scotland | 7/31/2014
OUTCOMES AT THE NLS
Overview
- Educated staff at the National Library of Scotland as well as several external organisations about the possibilities of open licensing and collaborating with Wikimedia. This includes5 internal training session, 1 external training session, 6 presentations, 2 recorded talks or interviews, and a workshop on 'Working with Wikimedia' for external GLAMs.
- 9 successful editathons were held during the course of the residency, 8 of which were held in Scotland. In total, events in Scotland gathered some 115 participants, of which an average of 80% were women. Through these events and staff training sessions approximately 75 new users were trained, 35 new articles created and an additional 34 articles improved.
- Opportunity to speak to or collaborate with several other GLAM organisations throughout Scotland, including:
- The Special Library Association Europe, Grampian Information, Glasgow Museums, Jisc RSC Scotland,and Edinburgh City Libraries (presentations delivered)
- The Scottish Poetry Library, Glasgow Women’s Library, British Computer Society Women (Edinburgh chapter), Royal Society of Edinburgh, Medical Research Council, the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, and the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) in Glasgow (events organised)
- Renewal and growth of a ScotWiki community of contributors based in Scotland (although primarily Edinburgh and Glasgow areas–see recommendations) and the re-establishment of regular ScotWiki meet-ups in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Successful launch of the ScotWiki mailing list: list has 50+ subscribers as of July 2014
- Change in opinions and encouragement of an ongoing discussion about open licenses, open access, and working with Wikimedia at the National Library of Scotland, resulting in the approval of a much more open Metadata and Digital Content Licensing Policy by the NLS board of trustees in March 2014. *The release of 1100 public domain images from the National Library of Scotland’s digitised content under a CC-0 license for all jpeg variations, and the uploading of all 1100 files to Wikimedia Commons using the GLAMWiki Toolset in June/July 2014
- The identification of nearly 11,000 more files scheduled for release as the project continues through to Spring 2015.
AN IMAGE RELEASED FROM NLS COLLECTIONS IN JUNE 2014
