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Category Archives: History
Norman Selfe
Tomorrow the English Wikipedia biography of Norman Selfe will be featured on the main page. Not only is Norman a fascinatingly interesting fellow, but the very fact of his biography getting to this point is the culmination of a free-culture … Continue reading
Posted in History, Wikimedia
Tagged Dictionary of Sydney, Engineering, Sydney
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New Systems for Documenting Public Art
Richard McCoy summarizes the outcomes of IUPUI Museum Studies’ documentation project at the Indiana Statehouse and discusses the future of Wikiproject Public Art. Continue reading
Posted in academia, education, History
Tagged Art conservation, Claudia Arzeno Mooney, Colloborations, Culture, education, Flickr, Indiana Statehouse, Jennifer Geigel Mikulay, Lori Phillips, Museum Studies, Public art, Richard McCoy, Sarah Stierch, Universities, Wikipedia, Wikiproject Public Art
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Flickr Commons is Full
If you are a GLAM looking to make your photographic collection more widely available online, for the last couple of years your first choice would have been to head over to “Flickr Commons”. And you would be in good company … Continue reading
Posted in chapters, copyright, History, museums
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Dictionary of Sydney
As many of you know, until recently I was employed at the Dictionary of Sydney as the Multimedia Coordinator. I left a couple of months ago and took up a short-term contract at AustLII running the Australasian Legal Scholarship Library. … Continue reading
Posted in History
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Wikimedia Manifesto?
Here is the introductory article from the front page of the first edition of the first newspaper in the Australian colony – The Sydney Gazette March 5, 1803. As the indefatigable director of the National Library of Australia’s “Australian Newspapers” … Continue reading
Posted in History, museums
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Witty's Blog 