GLAM/Newsletter/August 2012/Contents/Sweden report
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Collaborations taking off
Collaboration with Council of the Central museums
The letter of intent signed by the Council of the Central museums and Wikimedia Sweden has so far resulted in a photo safari at the Hallwyl house followed by an edit-a-thon back in june. In august Axel Pettersson did a presentation to the general directors of all the National museums to give them a better understanding of what Wikipedia is and how it works. During the presentation, Christina Mattson, director of Nordiska museet, came out as a Wikipedian and told the other directors that she had been editing for a long time already. In september the pilot will start and the next item on the agenda is a staff workshop at Naturhistoriska riksmuseet (The Swedish Museum of Natural History).
In residence at the National Heritage Board
GLAM is the right thing to do
At the Wikimedia Sweden strategy meeting a short summary was done trying to find out how close our projects fell within the scope of what we should be doing. Content donations was at the top with a grade of 9.7 on a 0 to 10 scale. Runners up was building partnerships with educational institutions (9.3) and Wikipedia Education Program (8.9). This work is the start of putting our operational plan for the next year together.
