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This Month in GLAM – Volume VIII, Issue VIII, August 2018 Normal version • Single page version

Armenia report

GLAM+Wikidata

By Armine Aghayan (User:Armineaghayan)

Museum of printing

My regular museum visit helped a new opened museum in Yerevan to be part of GLAM project. The idea to have a prinitng museum in Armenia was born in 2012 when Yerevan was declared World Book Capital by Unesco on the occasion of the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the printing of the first book in Armenian - Urbatagirq “The Friday Book” (1512, Venice). The museum displays the first Armenian printed Bible (1666, Amsterdam), the first Armenian printed map (1695, Amsterdam), the first printed Armenian periodical “Azdarar” (1794 - 1796, Madras).

The GLAM collaboration with this instituation started with wikicommons and later we will develop it into Wikipedia and Wikidata, as well as Wikisource.

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  The first printed Armenian Bible was issued in Voskan Yerevantsi’s publishing house in Amsterdam in 1666-1668.
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  The first Armenian printed book “The Friday Book”
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  The first printed mathematical book “THE ART OF ARITHMETIC”, 1675.

GLAM+Wikidata

August 24-26 Summer Wikicamp-3 participants had a workshop on GLAM+wikidata. Initially they used wikidata for ineterlanguage connection and anything in infobox that is not in Armenia to translate in wikidata. At this workshop they had the chance to creat new wikidata items from the online catalog dataset of Martiros Saryan Museum. The editors were in love with wikidata and they continued to contribute to wikidata from above mentioned catalog after the camp.

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  GLAM+Wikidata workshop in Tskhkadzor during Summer WIkicamp
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  GLAM+Wikidata workshop in Tskhkadzor during Summer WIkicamp
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  GLAM+Wikidata workshop in Tskhkadzor during Summer WIkicamp
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  GLAM+Wikidata workshop in Tskhkadzor during Summer WIkicamp

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August 2018

• Armenia report
• Australia report
• Brazil report
• France report
• Germany report
• Ireland report
• Kosovo report
• Macedonia report
• Malaysia report
• Portugal report
• Republic of Korea report
• Serbia report
• Sweden report
• UK report
• USA report
• Wikidata report
• WMF GLAM report
• Calendar

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@Armineaghayan: I am so glad that you all are doing GLAM work with Wikidata -- did you localize the Wikidata In One Page handouts?. They are super useful for teaching Wikidata, and help alot with continuing to build up local teaching materials. Also, make sure to share your slide decks at: Planning a Wikidata workshop. Astinson (WMF) (talk) 15:02, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi, Alex, thank you for your comment. My goal is that all the museums in Armenia have the opportunity to feel the power of wikidata with the help of experienced wikipedians. So I teach wikidata anyone interested then we go and start editing just from the museum, I will tall about it in the next newsletter. At the moment GLAM+Wikidata is being piled with the help of Listeriabot GLAM+Wikidata and some info I added here.--Armineaghayan (talk) 21:00, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

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